In the news: BCSPCA: Humane wildlife control work published in Conservation Biology
Sara Dubois, UBC Animal Welfare Program alumna, and others have published their humane wildlife control work in Conservation Biology. The Conservation Biology paper is now online here: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cobi.12896/full You can view the BC SPCA press release here: http://www.spca.bc.ca/news-and-events/news/news-article-co-authored-by-bcspca-published-in-journal.html
Upcoming event: 2017 UBC Animal Welfare Conference
The UBC Pre-Veterinary and Animal Welfare Club is presenting the Animal Welfare Conference on Friday March 17th. Click here for more information. Speakers include David Mellor, Jennifer Walker, and Leanne McConnachie. You can register at: https://nvite.com/AWC2017.
In the news: “What people really think about farms”
An article in Hoard’s Dairyman, “What people really think about farms”, talking about the ‘ideal dairy farm’ work that was featured in our most recent UBC Dairy Research Report. Click here to view the article.
Animal Welfare Program alumni meet at World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) conference Guadalajara, MEXICO, December 2016
Left to right: Angela Greter, General Manager, Alberta Farm Animal Care, Calgary; Christy Goldhawk, Adviser – Animal Welfare, Elanco Animal Health, Calgary; Andreia De Paula Vieira, Scientist, Universidade Positivo, Curitiba, Brazil; David Fraser, Professor, UBC Animal Welfare Program; Gosia Zobel, Scientist, Animal Welfare Team, AgResearch, Hamilton, New Zealand .
LFS Animal Welfare Alumni Come Together to Create Wildlife Accreditation Program
Three UBC Animal Welfare Program alumni have joined forces to create an accreditation program that will encourage wildlife and rodent control companies to make ethical decisions when controlling wildlife populations. Sara Dubois (PhD & MSc, Animal Science, 2014 & 2003), Nicole Fenwick (MSc, Animal Science, 2005) and Erin A’tman Ryan (BSc Applied Biology, Major in […]
UBC Animal Welfare Judging & Assessment Team takes 1st place at Intercollegiate Animal Welfare Judging/Assessment Competition
The Animal Welfare Judging & Assessment Team placed 1st , of thirteen teams, in the undergraduate competition at the 16th Intercollegiate Animal Welfare Judging & Assessment Competition, held Nov 12-13 at The Ohio State University. Congratulations to team members, and Faculty of Land & Food Systems applied animal biology majors, Gabriela Schauber, Varsha Rani, Nevene […]
Dancing Cows: Research on outdoor access for dairy cows (video)
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcRoNd1UJgs[/youtube] These are dairy cows that are provided access to a bark mulch pack outside of the barn for the first time in their life. Cows often show similar play behaviours when provided (first time) access to pasture. The cows in this movie were part of a trial that investigated the preference of dairy […]
Marina von Keyserlingk and Daniel Weary win first ever Boehringer-Ingelheim Ruminant Well-being Award, presented at 2016 World Buiatrics Congress, Dublin, Ireland
https://www.boehringer-ingelheim.com/press-release/marina-von-keyserlingk-and-daniel-weary-win-first-ruminant-well-being-award
NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award recipient Samantha Jung
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4fV9wSgISI
PhD student Lucia Amendola 1st place in the research poster competition at the 2016 International Society for Applied Ethology (ISAE) conference, Edinburgh, UK.
https://awp.landfood.ubc.ca/2016/08/16/animal-welfare-ubc-students-placed-first-and-third-in-the-poster-competition-at-isae-2016-conference/