Guidance and Care of Wild Animals in Captivity (Cetaceans): Wild Welfare aims to encourage good standards of captive wild animal husbandry and management in order to safeguard the welfare of wild animals in captivity. One way it strives to achieve this is through the production of animal husbandry resources and training and technical assistance in husbandry practice to enable change and an improvement in animal welfare standards. As such, we have developed a core document on fundamental guidance on wild animal captive care. We are now working on the development of more appropriate specific guidelines for individual groups of animals, starting with cetaceans. Cetaceans in captivity has been a contentious subject, specifically in more recent years, and the inherent nature of cetaceans can mean that it is very difficult to satisfactorily meet all their welfare requirements in captivity. We hope these specific guidelines will encourage the highest standards of husbandry to be adopted by those responsible for the care of specific species of wild animals, and alongside the core fundamental guidance document and further support form the Wild Welfare team, help establish improved living conditions across the world for all wild animals in captivity. In circumstances where it may not be practicably possible to make adequate husbandry and management provisions for captive cetaceans to provide for their good welfare, a critical evaluation should be undertaken of the benefits to these species’ and to the individual animals of their continued maintenance and management in captivity. With this in mind, acknowledging that the fundamental needs of cetaceans may never be adequately met in captivity and to assist the conservation of cetacean species’, our efforts could be of more use by concentrating on advancing in-situ conservation, promoting effective protection of the free-living cetacean populations and the preservation and protection of their habitats.
Posted on: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 09:00:01 +0000
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