Registration now open for our fourth wild animal welfare conference
The Wild Animal Welfare Committee (WAWC) is delighted to announce its latest event – Translating wildlife welfare into practice: wildlife management in the 21st century – on Thursday 16 May 2024. In this full-day online conference, delegates will hear distinguished speakers from around the world discuss how and why wild animal welfare can be integrated into wider contexts, such as land management and conservation projects.
The 2024 WAWC Conference 2024 will:
· focus on developing more inclusive, integrative systems thinking, so that wildlife managers value and consider the welfare of individual wild animals as part of wider land stewarding
· shift the paradigm to ensure wildlife ethics, welfare and flourishing are at the centre of decision-making by organisations and others responsible for the ecosystem health of the land that they manage
· start to develop approaches to help engagement with those who hold differing views or are unaware of how individual animal welfare considerations can be incorporated into management practices
· explore routes to enhanced engagement with organisations with wildlife management responsibilities, to encourage more awareness of and concern for wildlife welfare.
Speakers already confirmed include: Professor Danielle Celermajer (University of Sydney); Dr Mark Jones (Born Free Foundation); Dr Heather Browning (University of Southampton); UK; Professor Madeleine Campbell (University of Nottingham/ UK Animal Welfare Committee); Nick Collinson (National Trust;) Dr James Yeates (World Federation for Animals); Professor Peter Sandøe (University of Copenhagen); Professor Clare Palmer (Texas A & M University); Dr Grace Carroll (Queen’s University Belfast); Chris Cagienard (British Pest Control Association); Professor Philip Riordan (Marwell Zoo); Dr Alice Bacon (Royal Zoological Society Scotland); Dr Jordan Hampton (University of Melbourne).
WAWC Chair Dr Pete Goddard said:
“We’ve been talking a lot about systems thinking in the WAWC recently – acknowledging the interdependence of the different elements of the ecosystem, including humans and animals. The aim of the conference is to look at this bigger picture. It should no longer be a case of advocates calling from the side-lines for wild animal welfare to be considered – sometimes as an afterthought – but rather of integrating welfare as an essential part of the wider whole.
“For that, we need to understand how things work together, both in theory and in practice. We’re immensely grateful to our fantastic panel of speakers with wide-ranging expertise, who will help us to bring the elements together for future exploration.”
The conference will explore routes to enhance engagement with organisations with wildlife management responsibilities to encourage more awareness of and concern for wildlife welfare.
The full programme will be available shortly and registration is open now at https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/824141576073290587
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* General admission £40
* Student/Veterinary nurse/Unwaged £10 (STUDENT)
* Delegate from eligible low- and middle-income countries – Free (FREE).
NB A list of the countries eligible for this waiver can be found at https://www.research4life.org/access/eligibility/