Animal welfare & alternatives
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Demented dog or senile cat ?
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Hedgehogs, going, going...
Why don't I see hedgehogs when I walk home from the pub anymore?
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Badgers; the cull or the research
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World Day for Animals in Laboratories
140 years of animal welfare improvements
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Mouse cage enrichment
A new video shows experiments in cage enrichment.
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Let in the Lynx
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Separating the tweet from the chaff
Scientists from Queen Mary University of London have found a successful way of identifying bird sounds from large audio collections, which could be useful for expert and amateur bird-watchers alike, and be a particularly valuable tool for conservation.
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Declines in insectivorous birds associated with high neonicotinoid concentrations
Populations of common insectivorous birds like starlings and swallows are declining in farmland areas with high levels of the neonicotinoid insecticide imidacloprid.
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Should neonicotinoids be banned permanently?
In today’s staff blog post, Head of Online Communication Richard Scrase wonders where all the butterflies have gone.
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Mice use minimised by mini-liver break through
Research that has for the first time successfully grown "mini-livers" from adult mouse stem cells has won the UK's international prize for the scientific and technological advance with the most potential to replace, reduce or refine the use of animals in science (the 3Rs).
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42 thousand red-listed turtles taken per year
A new study has found that 42 countries or territories around the world permit the harvest of marine turtles – and estimates that more than 42,000 turtles are caught each year by these fisheries.
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Bat populations rise
by Theodore Roethke
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Avoiding turtle by-catch in the Mediterranean
The Mediterranean is a dangerous place for turtles with between 10 and 20 % of the population killed annually.
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Declining Hen Harrier populations in the UK
The hen harrier (Circus cyaneus) was once widespread across Britain, but it has endured decades of persecution, which first forced this bird of prey out of mainland Britain by 1900.
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Largest lake in Britain and Ireland has lost three quarters of winter water birds
The largest lake in Britain and Ireland, Lough Neagh, has lost more than three quarters of its overwintering water birds according to researchers at Queen’s University Belfast.
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