Species : Multiple species

Repérer les signes de maltraitance chez les animaux et les humains, un guide pour les vétérinaires et leurs équipes

AMAH

Published in 2021

News item on the French translation of the Links Group and Animal Welfare Foundation guide. It provides various tools to distinguish between non-accidental and accidental trauma, including a veterinary certificate with explanatory details. It includes a protocol with a decision-making tree to identify, confirm and report suspected abuse.

Document Types: Good practice guide

Keywords:Societal issues, Risk management, Human-animal relationships

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French Senate: Proposition de loi visant à renforcer la lutte contre la maltraitance animale

Ms Anne CHAIN-LARCHÉ, on behalf of the French Senate Committee on Economic Affairs

Published in 2021

Report by the Senate Economic Affairs Committee proposing amendments to the bill to combat animal abuse.

Document types: Regulation/Certification

Animal categories:Canines, Wild animals, Felines

Keywords:Societal issues, Human-animal relationships, Stress

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Lutte contre la maltraitance animale : la commission des affaires économiques fait le choix du renforcement des liens entre humains et animaux

Philippe Péjo

Published in 2021

Press release summarising the conclusions of the report by the Senate Economic Affairs Committee on the bill approved by the Assemblée Nationale to combat animal abuse. Changing the text of the legislation as drafted, it preserves the possibility of selling animals in pet shops, allows dolphinariums to continue their activity and establishes a list of animals authorised to participate in travelling circuses.

Document types: Regulation/Certification

Animal categories:Canines, Wild animals, Felines

Keywords:Societal issues, Human-animal relationships, Stress

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Pet-Human Relationships: Dogs versus Cats

Mónica Teresa González-Ramírez, René Landero-Hernández

Published in 2021

Scientific paper comparing dog and cat owner-pet relationships  in Mexico. It concludes that relationships with cats are better because there is a lower perceived cost for the relationship, but that emotional closeness is greater with dogs.

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories: Canines, Felines

Keywords : Human-animal relationships

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Benefits of Aquatic Animal Welfare for Sustainability

Aquatic Life Institute

Published in 2021

Presentation of the Aquatic Life Institute's 2021 report, highlighting the strong links between improved aquatic animal welfare and sustainable development. The report calls on policy makers to include aquatic animal welfare in their sustainable development policies.

Document Types: Opinions

Animal categories: Fish

Keywords:Consciousness, Pain, Societal issues, Living environment, Livestock farming system, Welfare indicators

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Bien-être des animaux d'élevage : l'étudier pour le favoriser

INRAE

Published in 2021

INRAE dossier on the research and expert advice provided by the Institute in the field of animal welfare, which is carried out in an interdisciplinary manner, and aims to improve the living conditions of farm animals while taking into account the working conditions of farmers, along with economic, environmental and land-use considerations.

Document Types: Scientific review

Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry

Keywords:All subjects

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Data-driven decision support in livestock farming for improved animal health, welfare and greenhouse gas emissions: Overview and challenges

Parisa Niloofar, Deena P. Francis, Sanja Lazarova-Molnar, Alexandru Vulpe, Marius-Constantin Vochin, George Suciu, Mihaela Balanescu, Vasileios Anestis, Thomas Bartzanas

Published in 2021

A scientific review of the use of data collected in the course of precision breeding that can provide a resource in addition to expert knowledge to help decision-making on the combined issues of the management of animal health and the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.

Document Types: Scientific review

Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry

Keywords:Precision farming, Environment, Risk management

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Bien-être animal – Les coopératives agricoles et le « One Welfare »

Coopération agricole

Published in 2021

Thematic dossier from the Coopérative Agricole, based on three fundamental principles: improving understanding of animal welfare, putting it into practice in a practical and pragmatic way in France and its territories, and providing a sustainable picture of the pride the agricultural professions take in their work. The dossier emphasises the close links between the welfare of animals and of those who work with them and highlights the benefits of the approaches it describes.

Document Types: Good practice guide

Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry

Keywords:Societal issues, Human-animal relationships, Livestock farming system, Welfare indicators

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Alternative Bedding Materials for Poultry: Availability, Efficacy, and Major Constraints

Siaka Diarra, Sonny Lameta, Falaniko Amosa, Sanjay Anand

Published in 2021

A scientific review of alternative materials to wood shavings and sawdust for use as poultry litter, including corncobs, straw and hay, sand, shredded paper, rice husks, peanut shells and gypsum. Consideration is given to their cost, availability, capacity to absorb and adsorb moisture, and the extent to which they allow birds to express their natural behaviour.

Document Types: Scientific review

Animal categories: Poultry

Keywords:Adaptation of the environment to the animal, Enrichment, Living environment

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A network perspective on animal welfare

T. Rowland, T.W. Pike, O.H.P Burman

Published in 2021

Scientific paper postulating that welfare is a network system of causal interactions between and within an animal's behavioural, physiological and cognitive components. It proposes a statistical modelling of this network, which links the response variables related to welfare and uses scenarios to test and demonstrate how this approach can be used and the sorts of fresh ideas it can generate.

Document Types: Scientific paper

Keywords: Welfare indicators, Livestock farming system

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