One Welfare in Practice

Tanya Stephens BVSc (USyd) MSc IAWEL (Uni Ed) MANZCVS (Animal Welfare) FRCVS Tanya Stephens was born and grew up in the Somerset countryside which inspired a lifelong love of animals and the natural world. She loved nothing more than paddling in streams, collecting tadpoles, talking to hedgehogs or spending time on Devon beaches with their wealth of rock pools. Her family moved to Australia when she was in her early teens and it didn’t take long for that interest to transfer to the Australian landscape. A passion for the environment and animals led her to study veterinary science and post graduate work with native animals especially kangaroos. Tanya established her own small animal practice in Haberfield, Sydney and very much enjoys practice and its everyday challenges. As a practitioner she is particularly interested in professional ethics and promoting the use of evidence based veterinary medicine. She is also a wildlife researcher with original research on galactosaemia in kangaroos and nutrition of orphan marsupials. Tanya’s interests lie in animal welfare, professional ethics, the law, research, evidence based practice, wildlife, the environment and sustainable agriculture. She is a regular presenter at Veterinary Conferences and Universities and published author on these topics.Tanya holds leadership positions within the Australian Veterinary Association, the Australian and New Zealand College of Veterinary Scientists and is Chair of the Australian Veterinary Association’s Animal Welfare Trust. She is also a member of a number of Animal Ethics Committees, honorary veterinarian for the Children’s Medical Research Institute and involved in management of kangaroos. Tanya is a recipient of the Belle Bruce Reid Medal awarded by the University of Melbourne in 2006 to Australia’s 100 most notable women veterinary science graduates and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons.

• Introduction. 1. One Health and One Welfare. 2. Sustainability: The role of veterinarians in aligning animal, human and environmental well-being. 3. Climate change as an animal welfare problem: The role of the veterinarian. 4. Animal Welfare Aspects of Land Clearing. 5. Wildlife utilisation and One Welfare. 6. One Welfare and the management of vertebrate pest animals: A complex problem needing an interdisciplinary approach. 7. Managing welfare and wellbeing in animal disease control programmes. 8. Rabies control in Indonesia: Working together to protect animal and human welfare. 9. The role of One Welfare in development and nutrition security. 10. The laboratory animal veterinarian’s contribution to One Welfare. 11. Fish welfare and One Welfare - A veterinarian’s perspective. 12. Working Animals - One Health, One Welfare. 13. Cow shelters: Animal welfare, human wellbeing and the environment in an Indian context. 14. One Welfare approach to the sea transport of livestock.

This is a valuable book that should give inspiration to many young idealistic veterinarians wanting to do ‘the right thing’. There is no doubt that the veterinary profession has a lot to contribute to policy within the general aims of One Welfare.John Webster, Professor Emeritus, University of Bristol, UKI would recommend this book to those with an interest in One Welfare. Although the focus is on the role of the veterinarian, it is clear throughout the book that vets cannot work in isolation and that solutions can only be found by communities and professions coming together and working towards shared goals. This book is likely to be of interest to all of us with an interest in animal, human and environmental health and well-being. It is likely to be of particular interest to veterinary students and recent graduates as it highlights the breadth of potentially diverse roles that veterinarians can have in promoting one health and welfare.Animal Welfare, Volume 32 , 2023 , e23The material presented offers valuable insights to all those working with wildlife and ensuring that their welfare is properly addressed. One Welfare in Practice: The Role of the Veterinarian thoroughly illustrates that discipline integration, community involvement, and holistic perspectives are values needed to ensure that the well-being of all animals (human and non-human) are appropriately addressed in all activities and interactionsamong the groups.F. Joshua Dein, in Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 62(2), 2026