Strategic Initiatives on Animal Welfare Challenges in Research and Education on Wildlife, Non-Model Species and Biodiversity

动物福利战略举措 野生动物、非模式物种和生物多样性研究和教育面临的挑战

• 批准号: 2135081
• 负责人: Kavita Berger
• 金额: $ 45万
• 依托单位: National Academy of Sciences
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-09-01 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2135081&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Strategic; Initiatives; Animal; Welfare; Challenges

The responsible and thoughtful care and use of animal in research, testing, training, and education is important from a moral and ethical point of view, as well as for the collection of high-quality, replicable data. The mission of ILAR is to identify, develop, promote, and disseminate strategies and practices that provide for excellence in the welfare of animals in academic or industry research, training, and education. This award serves to provide renewed support for core mechanisms through which ILAR accomplishes its mission. ILAR developed and continues to update the "Guide to the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals", a document that is the basis for governmental regulations on animal care and use in research and education, and that sets performances standards and best practices in animal care and use worldwide. ILAR also produces reports that provide the basis of guidelines and policy development for the care and use of animals in specific research domains. Further, ILAR oversees the content of the ILAR Journal, and ILAR is responsible for the ILAR Roundtable on Science and Welfare in Laboratory Animal Use, which organizes workshops on timely animal welfare-related issues of interest to research communities as well as government, industry, and professional societies, and whose outcomes ILAR disseminates worldwide. Additionally, through its role as a collaborating center for laboratory animal science and welfare of the World Animal Health Organization, ILAR influences animal welfare awareness and best practices in laboratory animal medicine and science worldwide. ILAR operations are carried out by ILAR staff working under the oversight of ILAR Council, which includes representatives from academia, industry, biomedical and wildlife research, veterinarian medicine, and safety and regulatory affairs.The specific ILAR activities supported through this award include listening sessions, workshops, and similar activities in preparation for revision of the “Guide”, so that the next edition of this crucial document covers a broader scope, one that also includes informed guidelines, standards, and ethical and welfare concerns for non-traditional research animals, wildlife, research in the field and other non-laboratory settings, and research using a wider range of approaches than traditionally employed in laboratory settings.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

从道德和伦理的角度来看，在研究、测试、培训和教育中对动物进行负责任和周到的照顾和使用非常重要，对于收集高质量、可复制的数据也很重要。ILAR 的使命是识别。制定、促进和传播在学术或行业研究、培训和教育方面提供卓越动物福利的战略和实践。该奖项旨在为 ILAR 实现其使命的核心机制提供新的支持。持续更新《指南》 “实验动物的护理和使用”是政府关于研究和教育中动物护理和使用的法规的基础文件，它制定了全球动物护理和使用的执行标准和最佳实践，ILAR 还制作了提供动物护理和使用的报告。此外，ILAR 负责监督 ILAR 期刊的内容，ILAR 还负责 ILAR 实验动物使用科学与福利圆桌会议，该圆桌会议组织了有关实验动物使用的科学与福利圆桌会议。及时解决动物福利相关问题ILAR 引起了研究界以及政府、行业和专业协会的兴趣，其成果在世界范围内传播。此外，通过其作为世界动物卫生组织实验动物科学和福利合作中心的作用，ILAR 影响了动物福利意识。 ILAR 工作人员在 ILAR 理事会的监督下开展工作，其中包括来自学术界、工业界、生物医学和野生动物研究、兽医医学以及安全和监管事务的代表。具体的通过该奖项支持的 ILAR 活动包括聆听会议、研讨会和类似活动，为修订“指南”做准备，以便这一重要文件的下一版本涵盖更广泛的范围，其中还包括指导方针、标准和道德以及非传统研究动物、野生动物的福利问题，研究反映在现场和其他非实验室环境中，并且使用比传统实验室环境中使用的方法更广泛的方法进行研究。该奖项是 NSF 的法定使命，并被认为值得授予利用基金会的智力优势通过评估提供支持以及更广泛的影响审查标准。