Category: Teaching/Training

Atlantic / Bats / Collaborations / Education / Teaching/Training / Website Rotator

2023-11-30

Every Week is Bat Week for the CWHC Bat Team

This summer, the Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative (CWHC) collaborated with the Atlantic Veterinary College (AVC), PEI National Park (PEINP), and Wild Child PEI to host several presentations, bat walks, and engaging activities that highlight...

Bats / Notes from the Field / Teaching/Training / Website Rotator / Workshops

2023-08-16

CWHC participates in the delivery of BC bat capture course

Nobody is born a bat researcher but with the right training, anyone can become a bat researcher. That is, as long as you are comfortable being in the wilderness at night, working long hours,...

News & Announcements / Ontario/Nunavut / Reptiles and Amphibians / Salamander Chytrid / Students / Surveillance / Teaching/Training / Website Rotator

2022-01-20

Student Network for Amphibian Pathogen Surveillance (SNAPS)

The Student Network for Amphibian Pathogen Surveillance (SNAPS) is a network of students, scientists and educators committed to the conservation of amphibians against the threat of emerging pathogens, with an initial focus on Batrachochytrium...

Collaborations / International / National Office / Surveillance / Teaching/Training / Website Rotator

2021-09-08

The Wildlife Health Intelligence Platform : Data management for the modern world.

The CWHC National Office leads the organization’s health information management efforts through the development and maintenance of a world-class database system for wildlife health surveillance; the Wildlife Health Intelligence Platform (WHIP). This system provides...

Education / Quebec / Teaching/Training / Veterinary resident Quebec Regional Center / Website Rotator

2020-12-09

Programme de résidence en gestion de la santé de la faune

Le Centre régional pour le Québec du RCSF, situé à l’Université de Montréal, offre un programme de résidence de 3 ans en gestion de la santé de la faune. Ce programme comporte une formation...

Education / Quebec / Teaching/Training / Veterinary resident Quebec Regional Center / Website Rotator

2020-12-09

Veterinary Residency Program in Wildlife Health Management

The CWHC Quebec Regional Centre, located at the Université de Montréal, is offering a 3-year residency program in Wildlife Health Management. This intensive clinical / paraclinical training, offered in collaboration with the Zoo de...

Collaborations / Plastics / Students / Teaching/Training / Website Rotator

2020-11-26

Sorry Aqua, life with plastic is not that fantastic!

The opportunity to attend the plastic pollution training webinars set-up by the CWHC and ECCC’s Dr. Jennifer Provencher was like nothing I had been a part of since the COVID-19 pandemic started. As a...

Birds / Collaborations / Plastics / Teaching/Training / Website Rotator

2020-11-20

Observing the impacts of plastic in Canadian wildlife

I am a wildlife pathologist, and (as I see it) it is the job of my profession to identify trends in wildlife health and disease that may have broader impacts on populations as a...

National Office / News & Announcements / Teaching/Training / Videos / Website Rotator

2020-11-17

Webinar on Feral and Wild Pig ID

In October, the CWHC hosted a webinar with Travis Black, Colorado Parks and Wildlife, on identification of feral and wild pigs. Over 40 participants from various organizations including federal, provincial and territorial governments from...

Birds / Collaborations / National / News & Announcements / Teaching/Training / Website Rotator / Workshops

2020-11-06

Why it is important that more people are doing plastic pollution research, but in a coordinated fashion!

In 2007, when I started finding plastic pollution in the stomachs of Arctic seabirds as I was conducting diet studies as part of my MSc I was encouraged to note it down, perhaps it...