We are delighted to share a significant milestone in our ongoing commitment to ending severe suffering in lab animals globally: the Roadmap poster and the prospective procedures and lifetime experiences sheets, with their corresponding guidance notes, are now available in Spanish.
The Roadmap is a practical exercise to help you focus on procedures that could cause severe suffering, identify contributing factors and find ways of avoiding or refining these. However, the principles of the Roadmap can be applied to any level of suffering, not only severe.
By translating these materials, we are breaking down language barriers and making our resources accessible to a much broader audience, particularly in Spanish-speaking communities around the world. This initiative reflects our commitment to promoting widespread understanding of severe suffering and to encouraging best practices.
Resources in Spanish
- “Hoja 1 – experiencias de vida” (Sheet 1 – predicted lifetime experiences) helps you to focus on the harms of lifetime experiences of a lab animal. It can be used to discuss and predict what the animal could experience, what the welfare issues might be and how these could be mitigated. It is accompanied by a useful “Hoja 1 – ejemplo” (Sheet 1 example) to help you get started.
- “Hoja 2 – enfoque en procedimientos” (Sheet 2 – focus on procedures) helps you to focus on the harms of procedures. It can be used to identify what the animal is likely to experience during the procedures, as well as the welfare issues and ways to mitigate these. Relevant sections of this form are the steps within potentially severe protocols, methods of killing, animal experience and humane endpoints. This sheet also comes with “Hoja 2 – ejemplo” (Sheet 2 example) for guidance.
- In addition, the Roadmap poster is a convenient resource that can be printed out and displayed at your establishment, or shared with colleagues.
Other languages
The Roadmap poster is still available in English, French, and German. We are eager for more institutions to try out the Roadmap, and we would be happy to discuss its implementation, or conduct workshops in person or online.