science & Research

"To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science." (Albert Einstein)

Horses at our sanctuary

Animal Welfare Assessment Framework

The FOUR PAWS perspective on guiding animal welfare assessments

Help for strays

The 'STRAYS' Project

A scientific project to determine the most sustainable, effective, and efficient method of managing the number of stray dogs

Brown bear in a field

BearWell

Developing and validating a welfare assessment tool for brown bears

Goats at a farm in Southern France

Gentle Dairy Project

FiBL France, in collaboration with FOUR PAWS, is working on a project regarding inducing natural lactation in non-gestating dairy goats

Piglets and their mother sows on a farm in Meggen, Switzerland.

WelFeed

Improving pig welfare in terms of feeding behavior

Cow on a farm

COwLEARNING Project

Transdisciplinary research project for sustainable beef and dairy supply in Austria