Animal Welfare Unit - NSW Department of Primary Industries
The Animal Welfare Unit publishes a series of policies and guidelines which can be found on their website. A number specifically deal with wildlife issues:
- Opportunistic research on free living wildlife
- Collection of voucher specimens
- Use of pitfall traps
- The use of feral animals in research
- Animal care guidelines for wildlife surveys
The Australian Science, Technology and Engineering Council
- Environmental Research Ethics. National principles and guidelines for the ethical conduct of research in protected and environmentally sensitive areas. (1998). For further information contact the ASTEC website.
American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, American Fisheries Society, American Institute of Fisheries Research Biologists
- Guidelines for the use of fishes in field research. (1987) Fish Journal 13: 1-14.
American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, The Herpetologists, The Herpetologists’ League, Society for the Study of Amphibians & Reptiles
- Guidelines for the use of live amphibians and reptiles in field research. (1987) Journal of Herpetology (Suppl) 4: 1-14.
Gaunt AS, Oring, LW. Guidelines to the use of wild birds in research.
American Society of Mammalogists
- Acceptable field methods in mammalogy. Journal of Mammalogy (Suppl) Vol. 68
American Ornithologists Union
- Report of committee on use of wild birds in research. Auk (Suppl) 105: 1A-41A
Recommended Texts & References
- Cuthill I (1991) Field experiments in animal behaviour : methods and ethics. Animal Behaviour 42: 1007-1014
- Farsnworth EJ, Rosovsky J (1993) The ethics of ecological field experimentation. Conservation Biology, 7: 463-472
- Lunney D (1994) The capture and handling of wildlife In Effective Animal Experimentation Ethics Committees. Baker R, Rose M, Burrell J (eds) ANZCCART, Adelaide.
- Rose MA (1998) Ethical dilemmas and imperatives in a changing animal welfare mandate. In Ethics, Money & Politics. Modern Dilemmas for Zoology. Lunney D., Dawson T (eds) Transactions of the Royal Zoological Society of NSW.