03.072025July 7, 2025
Netherlands Ends Funding for Monkey Experiments

Netherlands Ends Funding for Monkey Experiments

By In Primate Experiments

House of Representatives will no longer provide money for monkey testing!

Today, the House of Representatives took an important step towards a future without monkey testing. An amendment by Member of Parliament Ines Kostić (Party for the Animals), which advocates a gradual shift of research budgets for the BPRC to animal-free methods, was adopted.1

The BPRC currently receives 12.5 million euros per year from the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (OCW). This amendment will not change this amount, but the BPRC will have to spend an increasing part of its budget on alternatives to animal testing over the next five years.

The amendment was co-signed by Members of Parliament from various political parties: Laurens Dassen (Volt), Laura Bromet (GroenLink), Joost Eerdmans (JA21), Doğukan Ergin (DENK), Sandra Beckerman (SP) and Dion Graus (PVV).

25.062025June 29, 2025
Accelerating Humane and Human-Relevant Science

Accelerating Humane and Human-Relevant Science

By In European Coalition to End Animal Experiments

The ethical and scientific crossroads

Millions of animals suffer in laboratories across Europe and globally each year, including dogs, cats, monkeys, and rodents (1). This practice is undergoing a significant re-evaluation due to ethical concerns and scientific limitations. Animal experimentation, long a staple of biomedical research and regulatory testing, is increasingly challenged by evidence of its poor applicability to human health.

A paradigm shift is underway, driven by scientific innovation, ethical pressure, and policy reforms, moving towards animal-free research methodologies (2). These Non-Animal Methodologies (NAMs) aim not just to reduce animal suffering but to provide scientifically superior tools. The language is evolving from "alternatives" to "replacements" and "superior methods," reflecting growing confidence in human-based approaches (3). Advanced technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), organoids, and organs-on-a-chip, coupled with public demand for ethical science (e.g., European Citizens' Initiatives (4)), are accelerating this transition. This article explores the failings of animal experimentation, the potential of NAMs, global policy shifts in the EU and US, and the next steps towards animal-free science.

24.042025April 27, 2025
World Day for Laboratory Animals 24 April 2025

World Day for Laboratory Animals 24 April 2025

By In World Day for Animals in Laboratories

IAVS is proud to mark World Day for Laboratory Animals 2025 with a €5000 donation to Replacing Animal Research

Their incredible work funds innovative, human-based research methods that replace the need for animal testing — advancing science and compassion side by side. From supporting the pioneering FRAME Laboratory to empowering young researchers through studentships and grants, every project moves us closer to a humane future.

19.122024June 29, 2025
 2023 Statistics for Animal Experiments in Ireland 

 2023 Statistics for Animal Experiments in Ireland 

By In Botox, Irish Animal Statistics

The Irish Anti-Vivisection Society (IAVS) is deeply appalled at the latest annual increase in animal suffering in Irish labs. Statistics for the year 2023 reveal 107,873 animal experiments, an increase of 14,934 or 16% compared with 2022. 

The figures for the pain and suffering caused by these experiments make for even more worrying reading. There has been a disturbing rise in the number of animals forced to endure ‘severe’ suffering, going up from 13,212 to 19,816, an increase of 6,604 or almost 50%.

16.112024November 22, 2024
General Elections November 29th

General Elections November 29th

By In IAVS News

PLEASE BE A VOICE FOR ANIMALS

Ahead of the general election on November 29th, your local candidates will be out and about in your area trying to get your vote. Please consider taking the opportunity to ask them about their position on animal welfare.

05.072024July 13, 2024
Rabbit Pyrogen Test to be deleted from Pharmacopoeia

Rabbit Pyrogen Test to be deleted from Pharmacopoeia

By In European Commission

Pyrogen detection is essential for ensuring the safety of parenteral medicines. For decades, the rabbit pyrogen test (RPT) has been the traditional method.
The RPT involves measuring the rise in body temperature in rabbits following intravenous injection of the substance to be examined.

Despite multiple efforts to encourage medicine developers to move away from the RPT, the test is still widely used to detect pyrogenic substances, consuming a large number of rabbits worldwide.

04.072024July 4, 2024
Demonstration against Live Export

Demonstration against Live Export

By In IAVS News

Ethical Farming Ireland are holding a live export protest outside Agriculture House, Kildare Street, Dublin on July 9th from 12:00 - all individuals and groups welcome.

Whilst the UK has just banned live export, Ireland continues to send thousands of unweaned calves on long journeys to cruel veal farms and thousands of young bulls are sent on gruelling sea journeys to countries with no animal welfare regulations in place and appalling standards.

19.062024June 19, 2024
Demonstration against slaughterhouse violence

Demonstration against slaughterhouse violence

By In IAVS News

Sentient Rights Ireland request support for a demo top of Grafton St, Dublin in June 29th from 12 Noon to 2.00pm - all individuals and groups welcome.

Express your horror at Shannonside slaughterhouse and the other 85 slaughterhouse's in Ireland, the 44 knackeries and several other places where horses and farmed animals are whacked and disappear, then enter the food chain for humans or domestic animals without any proper traceability.

24.042024April 24, 2024

IAVS Chairperson on Near FM for WDAIL

By In Botox, World Day for Animals in Laboratories

Catherine Morrow Chairperson for The Irish Anti-Vivisection Society spoke to Near FM in Dublin City Centre about the high numbers of mice being used in Ireland to test for Botox. The IAVS together with SAFRIreland, NARA, Sentient Rights Ireland and The Party for Animal Welfare were handing out leaflets to the public to commemorate World Day for Animals in Laboratories.

19.042024April 20, 2024
Strong scientific support for animal consciousness

Strong scientific support for animal consciousness

By In International News

Scientists push new paradigm of animal consciousness, saying even insects may be sentient

Far more animals than previously thought likely have consciousness, top scientists say in a new declaration — including fish, lobsters and octopus.

Bees play by rolling wooden balls — apparently for fun. The cleaner wrasse fish appears to recognize its own visage in an underwater mirror. Octopuses seem to react to anesthetic drugs and will avoid settings where they likely experienced past pain.

All three of these discoveries came in the last five years — indications that the more scientists test animals, the more they find that many species may have inner lives and be sentient. A surprising range of creatures have shown evidence of conscious thought or experience, including insects, fish and some crustaceans.

That has prompted a group of top researchers on animal cognition to publish a new pronouncement that they hope will transform how scientists and society view — and care — for animals.