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About vivisection

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Investigations

Archive article The NAVS was the first organisation to ever undertake an undercover investigation of an animal laboratory - as long as 1902. In 1984, we revived the tactic with an investigation of...

The Big Picture

Over the years there have been a few key pictures which have become iconic – symbolising a whole campaign or issue. Yet with time, the stories behind these photographs and the individuals depicted within...

Ten years of monkey misery, for what?

In 1995, the NAVS filmed a monkey called Elisa at London’s Institute of Neurology (IoN). She had bolts and electrodes permanently implanted in her skull, so that recordings could be made as she moved her...

Back inside the Institute of Neurology

Last year an NAVS/ADI Field Officer worked for several months as an animal technician in the Medical Research Council’s Prion Unit in London, part of the Department of Neurodegenerative Disease and the...

History

The NAVS has led the world in the concept of undercover investigations to expose the suffering of animals in laboratories, right from our first investigation in 1902. We did not return to the strategy...

Overbreeding

Whatever you might be told, life is cheap inside the animal laboratory. Officially, over 2.5 million animals die in experiments in British laboratories every year. However, data collected from the...

Laboratory animal housing issues

The current guidelines on lab animal welfare, spelt out in the 'Code of Practice for the Housing and Care of Laboratory Animals' (COP), are ineffectual, and routinely ignored anyway. Consequently, the...

The use of wild-caught animals

In the face of public concern, the use of wild-caught primates in UK laboratories is cited as being banned. But there is a proviso. Wild primates can be used in UK laboratories if the researcher can convince...