“Small samples of skin were collected from southern right whales across New Zealand and Australia using a stainless-steel biopsy dart fired from a modified veterinary capture rifle31 or deployed from a crossbow32. Samples were collected from Bremer Bay/Doubtful Island Bay, Western Australia in 1994 and 1995 as previously described23, and Cape Jervis/Encounter Bay, South Australia, Warrnambool a...

1. The OECD Test Guideline Programme periodically reviews progress in test method development and refinement, both in terms of scientific advances and animal welfare, to determine whether existing Test Guidelines should be updated and whether new Guidelines should be developed. Toward that end, a new assay for the determination of skin sensitisation in the mouse, the Local Lymph Node Assay (LLN...

Ecological research and conservation practice frequently raise difficult and varied ethical questions for scientific investigators and managers, including duties to public welfare, nonhuman individuals (i.e., animals and plants), populations, and ecosystems. The field of environmental ethics has contributed much to the understanding of general duties and values to nature, but it has not develop...

It explores the way in which local cultural experience frames the way in which the links between people and the planet are understood. Perspectives on hybridity and interconnectedness and the implications for ethics shape what globalisation means locally. The global homogeneity does not only shape human beings ‘from above’ through powerful agents, it can also be reshaped from below. The central...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES Coinciding with the recent implementation in Italy of the "Directive 2010/63/EU, regarding the protection of animals used for scientific purposes", the Authors would like to analyse the topic of the introduction of ethical committees for animal experimentation in Italy. This paper furthermore aims to underline some critical aspects concerning the actions taken by Ita...