Het is bekend dat paarden mensen kunnen genezen, maar andersom werkt het ook, mensen kunnen paarden laten genezen. Met dit idee is in Nederland het project ‘Your Horse in Balance’ ontstaan. De Adalia Hoeve in Scheerwolde heeft een concept ontwikkeld met als hoofddoel een win-winsituatie te kunnen bereiken, …

This short paper describes a workshop on “Establishing criteria for an independent 3R-index: Access to 3Rs” and the corporate responsibility of industry for the use of animals in testing. 28 August 2014 Prague, at the World Congress on Alternatives Animal Use in the Life Sciences

Animal Assisted Education (AAE) heeft op internationaal niveau al verschillende successen geboekt. Zowel in Frankrijk, Duitsland, Oostenrijk, Amerika en België houden verschillende organisaties zich op professionele basis bezig met AAE op speciale scholen. In Nederland bestond echter het vermoeden dat …

This article describes the final meeting for the program SLiM (Sneller van innovatie naar mens). In cooperation with the Netherlands Knowledge Centre on Alternatives to animal use (NKCA) an overview was given of the results on accelerated acceptance of Replacement, Refinement and Reduction (3R) of animals …

Zoos in Europe developed in different ways. Whereas zoos in West-Europa flourished in the 19th century, zoos in Middle and East-Europe experienced harder times. Nowadays zoos demand more from their zookeepers. But, zookeepers from the Croatian zoo Zagreb Zoo do not have the educational background that …

This article examines two areas of tension within environmental ethics literature and relates them to the case study of the animal representation in the Dutch media. On the one hand, there is a tension between those who propagate clear division between anthropocentric and non-anthropocentric views; on …

This article explores cooperation between a commercial supermarket chain and an environmental non-governmental organization linking it to consumer perception of the “The Super Animals” collectable cards promotion initiative. The case study focuses on one particular joint project involving Animal Cards …

This article discusses the possibility of integrating deep ecology (DE) and animal rights (AR) perspectives within environmental education (EE) and education for sustainable development (ESD). The focus of this article is on three questions: why are DE and AR not currently central to EE/ESD debates? …

The 2014 congress of WSAVA would be the first congress in which WSAVA is using services of a Professional Congress Organizer company which is Kenes Group. Kenes group wants to increase the number of participants in the congress and that’s why company wants to have a marketing plan, which will lead to …

Despite changing attitudes towards animal testing and current legislation to protect experimental animals, the rate of animal experiments seems to have changed little in recent years. On May 15–16, 2013, the In Vitro Testing Industrial Platform (IVTIP) held an open meeting to discuss the state of the …