Animals Used for Experimentation

NSW Could Be the First Jurisdiction to Ban the Forced Swim Test

Experimenters will soon no longer be allowed to initiate new projects that force mice and other mammals to experience the panic of near-drowning.

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No More Treading Water: Australian Research Council Joins Forced Swim Test Ban

The Australian Research Council has endorsed the NHMRC’s decision to prohibit funding any experiments that use the forced swim test to model human depression in order to study “depression-like …

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Find Out What Lynx Has Banned and How It Will Help Animals

The world’s No 1 men’s fragrance brand joins the PETA US global Beauty Without Bunnies list after banning all tests on animals.

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PETA and NZAVS Work to Ban the Cruel Forced Swim Test in Aotearoa and Beyond

PETA entity scientists and local animal defenders took on the cruel forced swim test in New Zealand – and won. Read all about their life-saving work.

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Another Win Against Experiments on Animals: University of Western Australia Stops Using the Forced Swim Test

The University of Western Australia has confirmed to PETA that it “no longer conducts” the forced swim test.

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