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Non-tech. summaries 2015: projects on protection of environment

Projects granted during 2015 that have a primary purpose of protection of the natural environment and preservation of species.

• From: Home Office
• Published: 21 June 2016

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Non-technical summaries: projects granted in 2015, volume 1

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This document outlines the projects granted under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 during 2015 with a primary purpose of protection of the natural environment and preservation of species.

The following projects were granted:

• improving livestock production efficiency, quality and safety (livestock production, product quality, environmental protection, product safety)
• determining red fox movement patterns around breeding birds of conservation concern (fox, tagging, collar, capture, conservation)
• acoustic fish tracking in tidal waters (acoustic tracking, salmon, trout, eel)
• ecology of small carnivores and their prey (wildlife conservation, predator-prey, ecology)
• detection of C. botulinum spores/toxin (clostridium, botulinum, toxin, spores, bioassay)
• chemicals and fish research (toxicity testing, environmental pollutants)
• assessment of medicines for the treatment of external parasites of farmed fish (salmon, aea bass, parasites, medicines)
• assessing the risks to fish of environmental stressors (fish, risk assessment, chemicals, environmental stressors)
• lungworm vaccine primary production (dictyocaulus viviparous)
• studies of virulence in human and animal fungal infections (fungi, virulence, infection)
• exposure of animals to animal viruses for diagnosis and characterisation (animal, viruses, diagnosis, characterisation)
• effects on metabolism and endocrine pharmacology (metabolism, endocrine, safety, efficacy, pharmacology)
• environmental toxicity, metabolism and fate of materials (ecotoxicology, metabolism, fate)
• monoclonal and polyclonal antibody production (monoclonal, polyclonal, antibody)
• the fitness and evolutionary consequences of environmental variation (selection, environmental change, diversity, speciation)
• water pollution and salmon magnetoreceptivity (atlantic salmon, olfaction, magnetoreceptivity, migration, water pollution)
• examining dietary specialisations in buzzards (predation, dietary specialisation, buzzard, isotope)
• ecology of dormice (hazel dormice, habitat management, radiotracking, forestry)
• avian malaria in migratory and resident birds (migratory bird, resident bird, blood parasite, avian malaria)

Published 21 June 2016