Animal Welfare (Level 4) Course

Course Structure

The Level 4 in Animal Welfare is divided into six comprehensive modules.

Unit 1: Animal Welfare Legislation

• Legislation
• Ethics: thinkers and theories
• Legislative Acts
• Codes of Practice
• The role of welfare organisations
• The Five Freedoms
• Animal Welfare vs. Animal Rights

Unit 2: Animal Welfare in Related Commercial Businesses

• Animal welfare in veterinary practice
• Animal boarding establishments licence
• Animal breeding
• Pet shops

Unit 3: Animal Welfare for Farm Animals

• Welfare legislation for farmed animals
• Welfare of pigs in the European Union
• Dairy farming
• Animal transportation

Unit 4: Welfare in Animal Collections

• Legislation for animal collections
• Rare and endangered species
• Laws on transportation of animals
• Assessing wild animal welfare
• Welfare of bears
• Welfare of elephants
• Welfare of wolves

Unit 5: Animal Welfare and UK Wildlife

• Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981
• The UK’s protect mammals
• Badger culling
• Dormouse decline
• Endangered birds
• Bat conservation

Unit 6: Marine Welfare and Conservation

• Protecting the marine environment
• Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009
• Shark welfare
• Whale welfare
• Coral reef endangerment

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