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 the book “Science in the Service of Animal Welfare: A Chronicle of Eighty Years of UFAW”.
2023
The project “What fish want: Investigating the interplay between preferred environmental enrichment, welfare and the reliability of applied behavioural research” receives funding from UFAW, as part of our .
https://www.ufaw.org.uk/research-and-project-awards/andrew-vowles
2022
UFAW holds its annual international animal welfare symposium in Edinburgh, UK, with 231 delegates for the two-day event.
https://www.ufaw.org.uk/ufaw-events/advancing-animal-welfare-science-2022
An online Indo-Pacific Asia Workshop is organised by UFAW under the heading “Controversies and Collaboration: Moving Toward Consensus in Animal Welfare”.
2021
The annual UFAW conference continues to be hold as an online event, and the videos from this meeting can be found using the link below.
https://www.ufaw.org.uk/ufaw-events/recent-advances-in-animal-welfare-science-viii
2020
Due to the COVID19 pandemic, UFAW holds its annual international conference online for the first time.
2019
UFAW holds its annual international animal welfare symposium in Bruges, Belgium under the heading “Advancing animal welfare science: How do we get there? - Who is it good for?”
https://www.ufaw.org.uk/ufaw-events/advancing-animal-welfare-science
2018
A meeting to bridge cultural gaps to advance animal welfare worldwide was organised by UFAW in Hong Kong, 25th-26th October 2018
1992
UFAW established the quarterly scientific and technical journal Animal Welfare which is now is now a Gold Open Access journal with a high citation score worldwide.
