Abstract
SINCE 1931 the Universities Federation for Animal Welfare (formerly the University of London Animal Welfare Society) has published annually the Animal Year Book, a journal which has contained many useful hints on the care of animals and given evidence of strenuous propaganda on behalf of the well-being of wild and domesticated animals. the Year Book has now been replaced by U F A W Quarterly Journal, which continues the policy of its predecessor but affords means of closer contact between the members of the Federation and others interested in its benevolent activities. Articles of general interest in the first number discuss the ideal pet-shop and a population study of rabbits. A strong and justifiable plea is made for the better regulation of the importation and trade in Mediterranean tortoises, of which some 150,000 are said to be imported into Great Britain annually, often under the most objectionable conditions. It may be added, for the information of readers in whose family circle a tortoise makes its appearance, that pamphlets on the care of these pets have been issued by both the English and Scottish Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
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Animal Welfare. Nature 144, 974 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144974d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/144974d0