Animal welfare resources

EAZA Welfare Webinars

EAZA Welfare Webinars are free and open to all, to support animal management professionals across the wider animal management community. Joining the webinars is a fantastic opportunity to gain professional development from experts in the animal welfare field, which you can apply within your own work to promote evidence-based positive animal welfare. To learn more about our webinars, check out our Frequently Asked Questions.

Our next webinar

Who? Sioned Mai Davies-Grimshaw has been a keeper of mixed taxa at Peak Wildlife Park (UK) for 8 years and hoof trimmer for ~20 years. She founded SD Hooftrimming Zookeeper to help keepers learn hoof trimming skills, spread best practice and raise the standard and profile for hoof trimming in zoo collections to improve animal welfare.

What? This talk explores the essential role of hoof trimming and welfare management in maintaining the health and well-being of zoo animals - from domestic ungulates to exotic mammals. The session will highlight best practices for assessing and doing functional trimming on hoof, hoof condition, developing trimming schedules, and integrating preventive care into daily husbandry routines, via enclosure, diet and more. Examples will demonstrate how targeted hoof care improves long-term health outcomes and reduces the need for corrective interventions. This session is for zookeepers of all levels and animal welfare professionals committed to learning about hoof care and its role in welfare.

When? 06 May, 13h00 to 14h00 CET

What is coming in 2026? Get a sneak peek and save the dates!

Provisional dates	Webinar titles	Speakers	Roles and affiliations
6 May	Hoof Trimming : how to and welfare benefits	Sioned Mai Davies-Grimshaw	Peak Wildlife Park; Founder of SD Hooftrimming Zookeeper
27 May	Concerns about population viability challenge survival-based and reproduction-ignoring welfare traditions	Marcus Clauss	Clinic for Zoo Animals, Exotic Pets and WildlifeEAZA Research Committee EAZA Nutrition Group Advisory roles in Antelope & Giraffe TAG, Rhinoceros TAG, Tapir & Suid TAG
2 September	Lighting for nocturnal species in zoos	Grace Fuller & Heleen Post-van Engeldorp
15 September	From Observation to Action: Managing Animal Welfare with Digital and Non-Digital Tools	Amélie Romain	Bureau d'études AKONGO
TBD	Development of the Dolphin-WET tool	Katrin Baumgartner
TBD	From concept to action: operationalising animal welfare strategies in zoos and beyond	Justine Partoon

Join our Welfare Webinar series as expert speaker!

Are you an animal welfare professional? Would you like to support EAZA Members improve this area within zoos and aquariums? Can you talk about a general or more specific topic linked to application and improvement of animal welfare?

We would love to hear from you! Please email us a brief topic overview to info@eaza.net.

Animal Welfare Assessments

The ability to assess animal welfare within our zoo and aquarium collections is a very valuable tool. Periodic assessment will not only provide understanding of the current state of welfare for the animals in our care, but it will also allow for monitoring of welfare changes and identify areas for welfare improvement.

To help support our Members to fulfil EAZA Standards, the EAZA Executive Office and the EAZA Animal Welfare Working Group (AWWG) have created a guide on how to develop your own institutional welfare assessment programme.

We encourage you to read this guide (English) and believe this will be a helpful resource to your zoo / aquarium to move forward the aim of excellent welfare for all animals in EAZA Members.

Русский Russian Translation

Polski Polish Translation

Download the guide

Library

The EAZA Animal Welfare Assessments Library is a collection of previously established animal welfare assessments / auditing tools that have been kindly shared from researchers and animal management institutions.

The established assessments all take slightly different approaches to welfare monitoring and therefore this gives the opportunity to align your organisations needs with the appropriate pre-established assessments. A decision-making tool has been provided for the full library by the EAZA Animal Welfare Working Group in order to support Members in selecting the most appropriate assessment for their needs.

A number of institutions have offered to share their welfare assessment tools publicly. Please see below the welfare assessment library for public use. It will continue to grow with more institutions offering their assessments and more translations of the current assessments being submitted.

BIAZA Animal Welfare Toolkit: