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Here you'll find an outline of the key issues and trends concerning animal testing. Together with an overview of the lobbying undertaken by Naturewatch over the years.
Current Campaign
Naturewatch lobbies MPs for measures that will encourage the use of non-animal alternatives in scientific procedures, and halt increases in the numbers of animals used.
To find out more about EDM 2183 and EDM 545,
and how you can help click here
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Over a third of MPs sign EDM 545
268 MPs have now signed Early Day Motion 545, urging the government to do more to promote non-animal research methods, making it the sixth most highly supported EDM in the 2009 parliamentary session, out of 2421 EDMs! Click here to read Press Release.
News, Statistics and Trends
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September 2009: A new report on the EU REACH legislation notes the number of animals required for the chemical testing program could be 20 times higher than previously estimated. Equating to 54 million research animals over the next 10 years. More...
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September 2009: The OECD has adopted a non-animal alternative method to replace the notorious Draize eye irritancy test, which has used rabbits for the past 50 years. This wonderful news means that the Draize eye irritancy test will no longer be used, sparing millions of rabbits worldwide.
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Latest Home Office statistics released on 21st July 2009 confirm that, for the seventh consecutive year the number of animals used in animals has increased. More...
Read Naturewatch Press Release here
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Naturewatch is shocked that Kao Corporation, manufacturer of Biore skincare, John Freida haircare, Kanebo Cosmetics and parent company of Molton Brown, is still investing in new methods of testing on animals. More...
- 2009 marks a momentous move closer to ending animal testing of cosmetics. More...
Legislation and Lobbying
- Early Day Motion 2183 and Naturewatch MP briefing document [Oct 08]
Read Early Day Motion 2183 tabled on behalf of Naturewatch by Martin Horwood MP, in response to the release of Home Office animal testing figures for 2007.
Read MP Briefing Document [Oct 08] highlighting serious deficiencies in the present system of licensing animal experiments here. [pdf]
- The REACH legislation (Research, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals) was adopted by the Environment Council on 18 December 2006 and came into force on 1 June 2007. More...
- 5th November 2008 - European Commission releases proposals to update regulations protecting animals used in experiments (revision of Directive
86/609). More...
Using primates for research |
Experiments which deliberately brain-damage monkeys are ethically
abhorrent. We at Naturewatch believe that they should therefore be
banned, and have campaigned on this issue for several years. WARNING: the following image may shock: this is the reality of
primate experiments. More...
NEWS: In spite of overwhelming support from MEPs in 2007 for an EU-wide primate test ban, MEP's voted in May 09 to allow research on non-human primates to continue for medical research as a whole. More...
In the UK Parliament, Early Day Motion 234, tabled on behalf of Naturewatch, gained the support of 223 MPs.
EDM 234: That this house believes that any scientific procedure which causes brain damage to monkeys or any other primate is ethically abhorrent; and calls on the Government to ban such procedures forthwith.
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