Assessing Animal Welfare

By Stephen Blakeway As a tourist how can we assess whether the animals we see have good welfare, and ideally, ‘a good life’? Recently, I’ve been a tourist in Mexico and Jordan, and, having contributed to ‘Tourism and Animal Welfare’, I took the opportunity to think more about this question. As my interests are animals…
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School expedition gathers data on biodiversity in Mexico

 Scuba quadrats. Image credit: David H. Williams, Rye St Antony Our guest blogger this month is David Williams, who is the Head of Science at Rye St Antony School, Oxford. He recently led a group of schoolgirls on an Operation Wallacea expedition to Mexico, where they took part in a conservation project which involved conducting mammal surveys…
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