Annual Appeal 2026
UFAW is bridging the gap between what animals experience and what humans can do about it.
Our mission is to discover what matters to animals, develop scientific solutions to animal welfare problems, and disseminate evidence-based animal welfare information.
Our work doesn’t stop at our doors either - it reaches into laboratories, lecture halls, farms and government offices across the world, and as an independent charity, we rely entirely on the generosity of our supporters to keep that work going.
Your donation helps us
✔ Funds scientific research
✔ Publish our Animal Welfare journal and scientific books
✔ Build a global network of universities and colleges
✔ Share this knowledge through event
Femi’s Story
Dr Femi Oyeniyi is a lecturer in agricultural science in Nigeria, a country with one of the largest livestock populations in Africa and a growing interest in animal welfare. With UFAW's support, Dr Oyeniyi travelled to Edinburgh, UK to spend two weeks working alongside leading researchers at Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) and the University of Edinburgh with a goal of learning more about positive animal welfare; what good mental states in animals look like, and how to measure them.
He returned home with new expertise, new collaborations, and a plan - to integrate animal welfare into university curricula, present findings to Nigeria's national community of animal scientists and engage with policymakers at a newly created federal ministry for livestock. Science, shared across borders, reaching the people best placed to act on it.
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