Establishment of a good culture of Care in the Animal Facility of the Department of Zoology and Environment Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka
Department of Zoology and Environment Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Colombo facilitates teaching and research to over 400 undergraduates and postgraduate students annually. However, there is an unmet need of establishing a good culture of care in our animal facility which is the only lab animal facility of our faculty. Culture of care not only involves animal welfare but also the welfare of the personnel involved. Therefore, our first goal is to get our staff trained through Sri Lanka Association for Laboratory Animal Science’s annual training courses and equip the facility with new instruments as what we use currently are over 20 years old. Collectively, we believe that empowering the staff with adequate knowledge and equipping our facility will pave the way to establish and maintain a good culture in the facility and help to inculcate the 3Rs concept & promote humane animal experimentation in our young scientists.