There were 2,637,578 uses of animals in laboratories in Great Britain in 2024. This is a meagre 2% decrease from 2023, and ...

We contributed to Committee’s report – and now await government response. The UK Home Office has now received recommendations on improving public transparency on the use of animals in science, after ...

The cost of rehoming animals after their use in laboratories can now be paid for with grant money from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), after a change in policy came into effect on ...

We welcome the release of Canada’s final Strategy to Replace, Reduce or Refine Vertebrate Animal Testing under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act. This important milestone, announced jointly by ...

We applaud the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) decision to stop funding new research grant applications which only use animal testing. The announcement, made by Acting NIH Deputy Director for ...

We met with Minister of State for Science, Research and Innovation, Lord Patrick Vallance, to discuss the UK’s transition towards a future free from animal testing. We shared our vision for a modern ...

We have published groundbreaking analysis which exposes the dangers of force-feeding animals during scientific tests. Gavage – which involves forcibly inserting a tube, typically made of metal, down ...

The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) has announced new initiatives aimed at reducing the use of animals in NIH-funded research by accelerating the development and adoption of human-based ...

Cruelty Free International welcomes major shift towards humane, modern approaches to drug development and testing The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released a new roadmap to reduce and ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has finally restored a degree of transparency to its reporting of animals used in experiments, which reveals a meagre 1% fall in 2023 – and an alarming 9% ...

Throughout ‘the year of the election’ – as 2024 was widely known – we were working with politicians and decision-makers to keep animal testing on the agendas of governments around the world. We began ...

Labour MP Sarah Champion urged supporters “don’t let Labour off the hook” with calls for the end of animal testing in the UK, as we co-hosted a hugely successful Christmas Reception with her at the ...