The speakers will explore what we now know about how horses think and feel. 

The World Horse Welfare conference will take place on 21st November. 

World Horse Welfare is set to host its annual conference in November, welcoming researchers and experts from across the globe.

Titled ‘Through the horse’s eyes’, the conference will bring together elite riders, veterinary professionals, researchers, and a zookeeper to explore what makes a horse and the implications for how we should manage our relationships with them.

More than 800 in-person and virtual guests from the UK and around the world are expected to attend the conference in London. They will explore what we now know about how horses think and feel, what they consider important, what they are capable of, and what they are not capable of.

WHW chief executive, Roly Owers, said:“We all like to think we give our horses what they need to have a good life, but how much do we really consider how they experience the lives we create for them? Over the past decade, we’ve learned so much and now a mountain of evidence is challenging many of our beliefs about what a good life for a horse should look like…

“I’d urge anyone who’s ever wondered about their horse’s perspective on the lives we give them to sign up to attend – and to reflect afterwards on the insights we gain from this year’s speakers.”

The conference takes place on Friday, 21 November, and will be chaired by the Rt Hon Caroline Nokes MP. Among the speakers are Pippa Funnell MBE, Olympic eventer and World Horse Welfare Patron, and Rick Hester, Director of Animal Care and Wellbeing at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado.

The discussion panel will be chaired by David Eades, who spent three decades as a frontline presenter and broadcaster for the BBC.

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