Massey University and Australian animal welfare experts gathered for their first meeting to talk through animal welfare issues, putting them on the world animal welfare stage, says Massey’s Professor Kevin Stafford reports The Manawatu Standard. The meeting saw representatives from five research institutions come together to discuss how they could contribute to the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), particularly in Oceania and the wider Asian region.

Massey’s Animal Welfare Science and Bioethics Centre was named as an OIE collaborating centre in 2007. The centre operates as a partnership between the New Zealand and Australian governments and the research institutions. And the history and future of animal welfare is encompassed in a new book co-written by two Massey University researchers involved in the centre. The book provides distinct New Zealand perspectives on the theory and practice of animal welfare science set in a global context.

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