Registration is now open for the 4th Workshop for Canada’s Wildlife Health Professionals. The workshop will be held in Québec City on April 8 & 9, 2014 at the Hôtel Palace Royal. Everyone with an interest in wildlife health is welcome to attend.
To register, please go to the following websites:
English – <http://www.ccwhc.ca/
French – < http://www.ccwhc.ca/
Registration Deadline: March 28 2014
This workshop is being held jointly with Québec’s annual wildlife health workshop: Journées Faune-Zoo de la Stratégie québécoise sur la santé de la faune. Presentations will be in English or French, with simultaneous translation.
Posters: There is still room for additional poster presentations. Please contact he**********@cc***.ca
The tentative program for the workshop is as follows:
8 April – Wildlife Health Risk Assessment and Multi-criteria Decision Analysis
- An all day workshop consisting of guided table-top exercises in wildlife health risk assessment and related multi-criterion decision analysis, organized around a wildlife translocation scenario. This workshop is based on a training workshop developed in for the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) by the CCWHC.
- Chief instructors: Ted Leighton and Jane Parmley (CCWHC)
9 April – Wildlife Health Issues and Discoveries across Canada
- Mini symposium on declining moose populations
- Mini symposium on White-Nose Syndrome in bats in Canada
Presentations on:
- Liver damage from giant liver fluke in muskoxen
- Erysipelas in muskoxen
- Babesia in deer
- Rabies in the Canadian Arctic
- Vaccination of racoons against rabies in Quebec
- Tularemia – the ecology of F. tularensis in Quebec
- Emerging vector-borne diseases: Lyme disease and West Nile virus
- The emergence of Lyme disease in southern Quebec
- Management perspectives on Chronic Wasting Disease in Canada
- Wood Frogs in research on amphibian diseases
- Avian Bornavirus in wild waterfowl
- Disease in Bass from the St Lawrence River
- Injuries in eagles caused by traps
- All about Black Bears
- Programs and discoveries at the National Wildlife Health Centre (USGS)
If you have problems downloading the registration form, or have any other questions, pleases contact us:
Email: headquarters@ccwhc.
Phone: 1.800.567.2033
Fax: 1.306.966.7387