2024 ANZCCART Conference
If you would like to know more on the latest developments on animal welfare and meet people that have a passion for working with animals, this is an opportunity for you. ANZCCART hosts conferences annually where you get to hear great presentations, participate in workshops, hear different view points on the ethics of use of animals, and build networks with those interested in the many aspects of animal care. For more information on the upcoming conference or if you would like to view Proceedings of previous conferences please see below
The 2024 ANZCCART Conference will be held in Christchurch from 10-12 September, with a theme around the use of animals in education and training.
Archive of ANZCCART Conference proceedings:
2022 ANZCCART Conference - Melbourne 26-28 July (PDF 3.4MB, 99 pages)
2021 ANZCCART Conference – Openness in Animal Research (PDF 7.2MB, 160 pages)
Exploring the benefits and risks of openness in regards to the use of animals in Australian and New Zealand research.
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The 2021 conference (delayed from 2020) looked at ‘openness’ in animal research and teaching. Public confidence in animal research hinges on the scientific community engaging in the evolving conversation about how and why animals are used. Being open about these matters is a worthwhile endeavour, and to be encouraged.
To gain a broader perspective on how openness looks in practise, the conference examined overseas examples, both success stories and failures, and learn from different cultural viewpoints.
2019 ANZCCART Conference – Breaking Down Laboratory Walls (PDF 4.1MB, 138 pages)
2018 ANZCCART Conference – Keeping it Relevant (PDF, 198 pages)
The theme of the conference was maintaining social licence in a changing world. The conference covered a wide range of topics from addressing social license in different contexts, to advances in replacement, reduction and refinement technologies, lessons from animal ethics committee front lines, and animal handling.
2016 ANZCCART Conference – Man or Mouse (PDF, 3.5 MB, 109 pages)
2014 ANZCCART Conference – Mixing it up – ethics, science, and adventure tourism (PDF 1.7MB, 106 pages)
The use of animals for research and teaching can be awkward. Necessary, justifiable, ethical, well managed, well regulated without doubt. But still it can be awkward. It raises awkward questions. The conference sought to provide good answers to those questions.
2013 ANZCCART Conference – Can we do better? (PDF, 3.96 MB, 162 pages)
2012 ANZCCART Conference – Thinking Outside the Cage: A different point of view (PDF, 2 MB, 128 pages)
2011 ANZCCART Conference – Science with feeling: animals and people (ANZCCART website)
The eclectic mix of contributions in these proceedings recognise the complex interdependence between animals and people, an inextricable connection woven with feelings.
2009 ANZCCART Conference – AEC best practice (PDF, 3.2 MB, 126 pages)
The contributions to the 2008 conference "Blue sky to deep water: the reality and the promise" held in Auckland, New Zealand, reflect the conference presentations dealing with science, values and the reality of understanding “backward running rats” and “cunning fighting fish”.
2007 ANZCCART Conference – Getting it Right (PDF, 1 MB, 120 pages)
2006 ANZCCART Conference – Responsibilities – The 4th R (PDF, 2.9 MB, 175 pages)
The conference focused on what Animal Ethics Committees do in regulating and monitoring the use of animals in research and teaching, and the public’s and scientists’ expectations of the process.
2004 ANZCCART Conference – Animal Ethics: New Frontiers, New Opportunities (PDF, 1 MB, 44 pages)
2003 ANZCCART Conference - Lifting the veil: finding common ground
The theme of this ANZCCART Conference is "Lifting the veil: finding common ground". This theme was borne out of a perceived need to respond in a positive way to concerns that have been expressed in New Zealand regarding secrecy in the regulatory processes governing animal research.
2002 ANZCCART Conference – Animal welfare and Ethics Committees. Where are the goalposts now? (PDF, 2.2 MB, 94 pages)
Exploring the relationships between ourselves, animals, and the environment was the theme of the conference jointly organised by ANZCCART and the National Animal Ethics Advisory Committee (NAEAC). Issues to be addressed included the interdependence and interconnectedness of all life, the images of science and scientists, relevant legislation, dealing with new technology, fish research, and what could and should statistics or the popular media tell us.
1999 AWAC/ANZCCART Conference - Innovation, ethics, and animal welfare: public confidence in science and agriculture
The conference placed the welfare of animals squarely in the context of the challenges posed by changing patterns ofinternational trade, scientific and technological innovation, and societal attitudes. A central issue was that of the relationship between the wider community-including producers and consumers of livestock products-and scientists.
1997 ANZCCART/NAEAC Conference - Ethical approaches to animal-based sceince
Ethical approaches to animal-based science emphasises value systems. Value systems are of importance to all of those concerned with animalbased science, whether as proponents or opponents of it.
1995 ANZCCART Conference - Farm animals in Biomedical and Agricultural Research
This was the sixth conference held by ANZCCART and the second in New Zealand. Its theme moved from the narrower area of traditional laboratory animals to encompass the much wider field of farm animals in biomedical and agricultural research.
1994 ANZCCART Conference - Animal welfare in the twenty-first century: ethical, educational and scientific challenges
The conference considered what directions animal welfare thinking might take in the future, the implications of those directions for human uses of animals in education and science, and the initiatives we would like to see taken to safeguard the welfare of the animals used in the educational and scientific arenas.