Wild animal translocations: animal welfare risk assessment guidance

2. Incorporating wild animal welfare risk assessment into the translocation process

This paper sets out a framework for an animal welfare risk assessment to accompany other existing guidance, with the aim to ensure that adequate attention is focussed on the potential animal welfare harms and benefits to individuals. It is already recognised that good animal welfare standards are likely to enhance the long-term success of conservation translocations, but there is a lack of guidance on how to identify and achieve these standards. It has been suggested that the purpose of the translocation should also impact on the weighting of the overall ethical assessment (Thulin and Röcklinsberg, 2020).