Highlights from UFAW’s History
These are a very few examples of notable highlights in UFAW’s long history of achieving advances in animal welfare. A comprehensive history can be found in Science in the Service of Animal Welfare: A Chronicle of Eighty Years of UFAW.
2004
The UFAW/Blackwell Animal Welfare Series of books is launched to provide an authoritative source of information on worldwide developments, current thinking and best practice in the field of animal welfare science and technology. The first three titles are:
‘Environmental Enrichment for Captive Animals’ by Robert J Young
‘Physiology and Behaviour of Animal Suffering’ by Neville G Gregory
‘Animal Welfare Limping Towards Eden’ by John Webster
2003
UFAW Symposium ‘Science in the Service of Animal Welfare’ held in April 2003 in Edinburgh
2000
UFAW Symposium on ‘Consciousness Cognition and Animal Welfare’ held on 11-12 May 2000 at Zoological Society of London.
1998
UFAW awarded the first of its Animal Welfare Research Training Scholarships, established to encourage high quality research likely to lead to major advances in animal welfare
1998
UFAW 3Rs Liaison Group (formerly PHHSC) established to encourage research into laboratory animal welfare.
1993
In commemoration of its founder, UFAW launched the Hume Fellowship in Animal Welfare.
1992
UFAW established the quarterly scientific and technical journal Animal Welfare which is now into Volume 17, and has a world wide distribution.
1971
The first edition of ‘The UFAW Handbook on the Care and Management of Farm Animals’ was published in 1971. The Handbook is now in its fourth edition.
1950’s
The principles of the Three Rs - Replacement, Reduction and Refinement were developed by the UFAW Scholars, Professor William MS Russell and Rex Burch. The Three Rs have had a huge impact in improving the welfare of animals in research and are now used and accepted World-Wide.
The Three Rs were first presented at a UFAW symposium in 1957 entitled Humane Techniques in the Laboratory.
‘The Principles of Humane Experimental Technique’ was published in 1959. A reprint of this volume is obtainable from UFAW.
1947
The first ever laboratory animal handbook to improve the welfare of animals used in research was published by UFAW. The handbook is now in its seventh edition.
