The Animal Welfare Act, 2011

摘要

The Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI) has come up with an Animal Welfare Act, 2011 to prevent the infliction of trauma and unnecessary killing of animals 1 . The scientific community has expressed concern over certain aspects of the draft as harsh provisions of the draft might affect research in the country where more than 500 institutions including biomedical research centres, pharma companies and scientific institutions use experimental animals.