animals used in research in the UK, saying that it is held to the highest standards in the world. The website provides extensive information, including statistics and videos, and news on animal research in the UK and beyond. In addition to the Understanding Animal Research Website the organisation has created AnimalResearch.Info a website that provides peer-reviewed, fully referenced information on animal research and labanimaltour.org, , which offers a guided tour of four laboratories with embedded videos of experiments, procedures and supporting processes such as feeding and cleaning. In 2012, Understanding Animal Research, responding to a small dip in public support for animal research, announced the Declaration of Openness with 41 organisations, including charities, pharmaceuticals and universities, promising to take part "in an ongoing conversation about why and how animals are used in research and the benefits of this". On 14 May 2014, 72 signatories came together to sign the Concordat on Openness on Animals in Research in the UK, pledging to enhance their communications regarding the animal research they support, fund or conduct. As of 22 August 2017 the Concordat has been signed by 116 organisations. See also Three Rs (animal research) Federation of European Laboratory Animal Science Associations References External links UAR website Animalresearch.info The global resource for scientific evidence in animal research Animal testing in the United Kingdom Organisations based in the London Borough of Islington