Animal category: All animals

Sixty Years of Tinbergen's Four Questions and Their Continued Relevance to Applied Behaviour and Welfare Research in Zoo Animals: A Commentary

Robert Kelly, Paul Rose

Published in 2024

Scientific article illustrating how ethologist Tinbergen's four questions - based on the causality, ontogeny, phylogeny and function of animal behavior - can help zoo animal research in areas such as sentience, welfare, conservation and species management.

Document Types: Scientific review

Animal categories: All animals

Keywords:Animal adaptation to environment, Biodiversity, Population management, Living environment, Evolutionary process, Behavioral disorders

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Animal sentience included in Belgian Constitution

Eurogroup for Animals

Published in 2024

Article announcing the addition of animal sentience to the Belgian Constitution, making Belgium the sixth EU member state to include animals in its Constitution.

Document types: Regulation/Certification

Animal categories: All animals

Key words:Awareness, Societal issues

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Work: what links us to pets

Vanina Deneux-Le Barh and Sébastien Mouret

Published in 2024

Article reflecting on the various forms of work we impose on animals. The authors nevertheless emphasize that while work can be a cause of suffering, it can also be a source of pleasure and emancipation, for the humans as well as the animals. Our working relationships with animals can also be based on respect, love and cooperation.

Document Types: Scientific review

Animal categories: All animals

Keywords: Animal mediation, Human-animal relationship,Working animals

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Animal Rights and Legal Personhood

Ethan Prall

Published in 2024

Synthesis of different views on the moral status of animals, their "fundamental rights" and the relationship between fundamental rights and legal personhood.

Document Types: Opinions

Animal categories: All animals

Keywords: Societal issues

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Images et représentations de l’agriculture dans la société française aujourd’hui

Julia Gassie, Florent Bidaud, Nathalie Kakpo, Jérôme Lerbourg

Published in 2024

Study presenting the four main representations of agriculture and farming in French society today: traditional family farming, large-scale industrial farming, farmers under pressure to expand, and small farmers who just get by. 

Document Types: Opinions

Animal categories: All animals

Keywords:Societal issues, Pollution, Human-animal relationship, Farming system

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Advancements in artificial intelligence technology for improving animal welfare: Current applications and research progress

Li Zhang, Wenqiang Guo, Chenrui Lv, Meng Guo, Mei Yang, Qiuyue Fu, Xiaomeng Liu

Published in 2024

Article summarizing the various technological advances in the field of artificial intelligence for animal health and welfare.

Document Types: Scientific review

Animal categories: All animals

Keywords:Animal-based measurement, Precision farming, Welfare indicators, Robustness, Behavioural disorders

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Veille Droit Animal

Valentin Brunet

Published in 2024

Creation of a website listing animal protection legislation and regulations at European and French level

Document types: Regulation/Certification

Animal categories: All animals

Keywords:All subjects

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Animal welfare as the basis of One Health: A UN convention on animal welfare, health, and protection poses a realistic solution to improved animal welfare and human health

Antoine F. Goetschel

Published in 2024

Scientific paper arguing that animal welfare should be included in the work of the OHHLEP (One Health High Level Expert Panel), and a technical working group should be created to finalize a UN convention on the issue resembling the 2018 UN Convention on Animal Health and Protection (UNCAHP). A transdisciplinary approach will be required, encompassing ethical, cultural, social, religious, political, economic and scientific aspects. In addition to veterinarians, experts from other disciplines linked to One Health will need to be consulted, such as specialized lawyers and jurists, representatives of animal rights movements, along withl as specialists in ethicseconomics.

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories: All animals

Key word: One Welfare,Societal issues

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Are regulations addressing farm animal welfare issues during live transportation fit for purpose? A multi-country jurisdictional check

Eugénie Duval, Benjamin Lecorps, Marina A. G. von Keyserlin

Published in 2024

Scientific article examining the effectiveness of animal welfare regulations on transport in five English-speaking Western jurisdictions. The study's findings show that the regulations fail to achieve the objective of protecting livestock during transport. The article identifies future policy directions that would have greater likelihood of success in meeting this objective.

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories: All animals

Keywords: Societal issues, Transport

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Pathways towards lower emissions - A global assessment of the greenhouse gas emissions and mitigation options from livestock agrifood systems

Food and Agriculture Organizations of the United Nations

Published in 2024

FAO prospective study on livestock-related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, which are likely to increase as a result of growing global demand for animal products. The study assesses the GHG emission reduction potential of various livestock farming techniques.

Document types: Technical Paper

Animal categories: All animals

Keywords:Environment, Pollution

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