Jeffrey Masson

Best-selling Author on the emotional lives of animals

“We are all embedded in social, cultural and environmental webs that are rapidly expanding; no longer can we simply look to our own personal good without considering that of all other beings who inhabit our planet.”

Jonathan Balcombe

Ethologist Scientist Author

“This beautifully produced manual presents creative and colourful ways to get students thinking critically about a pressing issue... The New Zealand education system is fortunate to have this excellent resource.”

Joanne Wilson

Palmerston North Girls’ High School

“Everything was user friendly! The lesson plans, the great quality of the reprints, the wonderful collection of images and stories on the DVD all helped immensely.”

Professor Philip Armstrong

Postgraduate Co-ordinator (English) University of Canterbury

“Animals & Us offers students and teachers options for engaging with the curriculum by attending to issues that will seem most urgent and vital to young people now; questions of power, violence and justice; the quandaries of consumerism and globalisation; the challenges of animal rights and welfare, and of environmentalism; the impact of technological and scientific manipulation of organic nature.”

Dr Annie Potts

Co-Director, New Zealand Centre for Human-Animal Studies - University of Canterbury

“Animals in Science provides a vital resource for science and biology teachers who value and encourage independent scholarship and critical thinking in their students. I wholeheartedly recommend this exemplary resource to science teachers. I just wish it had been part of my own experience of science at school.”