On October 8, 2024, a bear attacked a Selo Kuzmynets, Kaluska district resident, Ivano-Frankivsk oblast. Fortunately, the victim survived. In connection with this event, we remind you RULES OF BEHAVIOR IN PLACES OF THE BEAR’S EXISTENCE 1In places where bears live, it is necessary to show attention and caution. Try to Read more…
The Universal Declaration of Animal Rights was solemnly proclaimed in Paris on 15 October 1978 at the UNESCO headquarters.The text, revised by the International League of Animal Rights in 1989, was submitted to the UNESCO Director General in 1990 and made public that same year. PREAMBLEConsidering that Life is one, Read more…
INITIAL DRAFT TEXT ARISING FROM THE MANILA CONFERENCE ON ANIMAL WELFARE (2003) AND THE COSTA RICA STEERING COMMITTEE MEETING (2005) FOR MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE CONSIDERATION PREAMBLE [The Costa Rica Steering Committee, following on from the Manila Conference on Animal Welfare, confirms:]That animal welfare is an issue worth consideration by governments.That the Read more…
(revised 2018; annotated 2020) 1A wildlife rehabilitator should strive to achieve high standards of animal care through knowledge and an understanding of the field. Individuals must make an effort to be informed of current rehabilitation information, methods, and regulations through participation in continuing education.Wildlife rehabilitators need to strive to continually Read more…
The Toulon Declaration * PROCLAIMED on March 29, 2019 – TOULON – FRANCE (The Toulon Declaration, which emerged from the trilogy of symposia on the legal personality of animals, is conceived as a response by legal scholars to the Cambridge Declaration of 7 July 2012). PREAMBLE We, legal scholars, having Read more…
Charter on the Law of the Living, adopted on May 26, 2021, is part of a trilogy formed by the Toulon Declaration, adopted on March 29, 2019, and the Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness, adopted on July 7, 2012, which state that animals who possess the neurological substrates that generate consciousness Read more…
The Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness* On this day of July 7, 2012, a prominent international group of cognitive neuroscientists, neuropharmacologists, neurophysiologists, neuroanatomists and computational neuroscientists gathered at The University of Cambridge to reassess the neurobiological substrates of conscious experience and related behaviors in human and non-human animals. While comparative research Read more…
Brown bear (Ursus arctos): problems of conservation and studying of population in Ukraine: monography / scientific editors: Ihor Dykyy, Maryna Shkvyria. – Kyiv: PLC “SIC Group Ukraine”, 2015. – 135 p. ISBN 978-617-7092-57-4 The authors of the chapters: I. Dykyy, M. Shkvyria, P. Khoetcky, I. Delehan, I. Skilsky, A.-T. Bashta, Read more…
