1999 Animal welfare science
Scientific evidence and improvements in animal welfare: are we ignoring the obvious?
Tuesday 23 February 1999
National Convention Centre, Canberra
The RSPCA sees the major role of scientific evidence in advancing animal welfare as a tool to help us define how we can treat animals humanely.
Scientific evidence and improvements in animal welfare: RSPCA perspective and overview.
Dr Bidda Jones, RSPCA Australia.
How do you measure animal welfare?
Professor Paul Hemsworth, University of Melbourne and Agriculture Victoria
Research animals: do small changes benefit the animals?
Dr Alana Mitchell, NHMRC
Livestock transport: should codes of practice be based on scientific evidence?
Amanda Paul, NSW Agriculture.
Animal welfare and the livestock export trade.
Tony Brightling
Educating veterinarians: recent changes in teaching animal welfare in veterinary schools.
Professor Ivan W Caple, University of Melbourne
Living with wildlife - a management challenge for the new millenium.
Peter R. Brown, Deakin University.
This project is supported by the Commonwealth Government through a grant-in-aid administered by the Department of Finance and Deregulation.