Animal Rights and Welfare
Description
Includes rights and welfare of animals under human control; ethical approach to protecting all animals, including freedom from hunger and thirst, appropriate nutrition, freedom from pain, injury, and disease, freedom from fear and distress, freedom from discomfort, and freedom to express behaviours that promote wellbeing, and anti-poaching.
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Getting Started Guide
Animal Rights and Welfare: A Getting Started Guide
Animal welfare has implications for human health, the environment, and socio-economic development. Anchored in research, our Animal Rights and Welfare: A Getting Started Guide aims to support your company as it begins or revisits an animal welfare strategy. It helps build a foundational understanding of the issue and provides clarity on the work ahead.
Other Resources
The Five Freedoms Model
Developed in the 1960s by the Farm Animal Welfare Advisory Committee (FAWAC), the Five Freedoms Model is the most widely accepted global standard for animal care. The model outlines the five freedoms that safeguard the welfare of animals under human care, including freedom from hunger and thirst; freedom from discomfort; freedom from pain, injury, or disease; freedom to express normal behaviour; and freedom from fear and distress.
