Strategic Initiatives on Animal Welfare Challenges in Research and Education on Wildlife, Non-Model Species and Biodiversity

从道德和伦理的角度来看，在研究、测试、培训和教育中负责任和深思熟虑地照顾和使用动物，以及收集高质量的、可复制的数据，都是重要的。ILAR的使命是确定、开发、促进和传播在学术或行业研究、培训和教育方面为动物福利提供卓越成果的战略和实践。该奖项旨在为独立法律援助机构完成其使命的核心机制提供新的支持。ILAR制定并继续更新了《实验动物护理和使用指南》，该文件是政府在研究和教育中关于动物护理和使用的法规的基础，并在全球范围内设定了动物护理和使用方面的性能标准和最佳实践。ILAR还编写报告，为在特定研究领域照顾和使用动物提供指导方针和政策制定的基础。此外，ILAR负责监督ILAR期刊的内容，ILAR负责ILAR在实验动物使用中的科学和福利圆桌会议，该圆桌会议组织关于及时与动物福利相关的问题的研讨会，这些问题是研究界以及政府、行业和专业协会感兴趣的，其成果在世界各地传播。此外，通过其作为世界动物卫生组织实验动物科学和福利合作中心的角色，ILAR影响着世界各地实验动物医学和科学的动物福利意识和最佳实践。ILAR工作人员在ILAR理事会的监督下进行ILAR操作。ILAR理事会包括来自学术界、工业界、生物医学和野生动物研究、兽医以及安全和监管事务的代表。通过该奖项支持的具体ILAR活动包括听证会议、研讨会和类似活动，为修订《指南》做准备，以便这份关键文件的下一版涵盖更广泛的范围，其中还包括非传统研究动物、野生动物、野外研究和其他非实验室环境的知情指南、标准以及伦理和福利问题，这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The responsible and thoughtful care and use of animal in research, testing, training, and education is important from a moral and ethical point of view, as well as for the collection of high-quality, replicable data. The mission of ILAR is to identify, develop, promote, and disseminate strategies and practices that provide for excellence in the welfare of animals in academic or industry research, training, and education. This award serves to provide renewed support for core mechanisms through which ILAR accomplishes its mission. ILAR developed and continues to update the "Guide to the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals", a document that is the basis for governmental regulations on animal care and use in research and education, and that sets performances standards and best practices in animal care and use worldwide. ILAR also produces reports that provide the basis of guidelines and policy development for the care and use of animals in specific research domains. Further, ILAR oversees the content of the ILAR Journal, and ILAR is responsible for the ILAR Roundtable on Science and Welfare in Laboratory Animal Use, which organizes workshops on timely animal welfare-related issues of interest to research communities as well as government, industry, and professional societies, and whose outcomes ILAR disseminates worldwide. Additionally, through its role as a collaborating center for laboratory animal science and welfare of the World Animal Health Organization, ILAR influences animal welfare awareness and best practices in laboratory animal medicine and science worldwide. ILAR operations are carried out by ILAR staff working under the oversight of ILAR Council, which includes representatives from academia, industry, biomedical and wildlife research, veterinarian medicine, and safety and regulatory affairs.The specific ILAR activities supported through this award include listening sessions, workshops, and similar activities in preparation for revision of the “Guide”, so that the next edition of this crucial document covers a broader scope, one that also includes informed guidelines, standards, and ethical and welfare concerns for non-traditional research animals, wildlife, research in the field and other non-laboratory settings, and research using a wider range of approaches than traditionally employed in laboratory settings.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.