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Animal welfare organizations are concerned with the health, safety and psychological wellness of individual animals. These organizations include animal rescue groups and wildlife rehabilitation centers, which care for animals in distress and sanctuaries , where animals are brought to live and be protected for the rest of their lives.
Welfare biology – Yew-Kwang Ng defines animal welfare in terms of welfare economics: "Welfare biology is the study of living things and their environment with respect to their welfare (defined as net happiness, or enjoyment minus suffering). Despite difficulties of ascertaining and measuring welfare and relevancy to normative issues, welfare ...
Animal welfare organisations based in the United Arab Emirates (1 C) Animal welfare organisations based in the United Kingdom (9 C, 70 P) Animal welfare organizations based in the United States (6 C, 92 P)
Animal welfare and rights in the United Arab Emirates (1 C) Animal welfare and rights in the United Kingdom (8 C, 10 P) Animal welfare and rights in the United States (6 C, 21 P)
Categories for the broader concept of animal welfare, rather than rights: Category:Animal welfare: for the concept of animal welfare and relevant issues; Category:Animal welfare organizations: for organizations which have promoted animal welfare; Category:Animal welfare scholars: for academics and writers on the topic of animal welfare
Animal welfare science is the scientific study of the welfare of animals as pets, in zoos, laboratories, on farms and in the wild. Although animal welfare has been of great concern for many thousands of years in religion and culture, the investigation of animal welfare using rigorous scientific methods is a relatively recent development.
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The organization was known previously as the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA). This resulted from the merger of two animal welfare organizations in 1981, the World Federation for the Protection of Animals (WFPA) founded in 1950 [3] and the International Society for the Protection of Animals (ISPA) founded in 1959. [4]