Don't Miss This Exciting Full Day Workshop: Welfare in Captive Wildlife – A Global Perspective

Are you passionate about learning more about captive wildlife welfare? Join us for a unique and inspiring day packed with insights from leading experts and engaging activities designed to deepen your understanding on a range of captive welfare wildlife topics. Areas covered include addressing ingrained global captive wildlife welfare concerns, success and failures in legislation practices aimed at protecting captive wildlife, zoo industry-led initiatives to promote positive welfare and much more!

Spaces are limited, so we highly recommend you sign up early to ensure you don’t miss this unique opportunity

Course Description

Experience dynamic talks, interactive sessions, and lively discussions with opportunities to ask the experts your pressing questions during our engaging round table session.

We are thrilled to announce our keynote speaker, Gail Laule from Mandai Parks, Singapore – a renowned authority in captive wildlife and a pioneer in positive reinforcement training. Learn from the best and gain practical knowledge to make a real impact.

Date: 22 March 2025

Registration Cost: £50 (with a discounted rate of £25 for students).

Catering: Tea/coffee at morning and afternoon breaks are complementary. 

If you would like to also purchase a premade bag of a sandwich, crips, fruit, and chocolate bar, there is an additional cost of £6.50 per person. The deadline for purchasing lunch is 14 March 2025.

Please notify us of any special dietary requirements [email protected]

SPEAKERS AND TALK TITLES:

Georgina Groves (Crustacean Compassion) Global Captive Animal Welfare: Assessing the Status and Efforts to Improve Welfare Practices.

Ellen Williams (Harper Adams University) Factors affecting welfare in managed wildlife.

Gail Laule (Mandai Wildlife Group, Singapore) PC and PRT with elephants; designing programmes to support captive elephants.

Mark Kingston Jones Enrichment Huh, What is it good for?

Rebeca Pinillos (UK Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) Captive wildlife and animal welfare legislation

Simon Marsh (Wild Welfare) Animal Welfare Standards and Zoo and Aquarium Accreditation

Lisa Yon (Associate Professor in Zoo & Wildlife Medicine in the School of Veterinary Medicine and Science at the University of Nottingham). Defining and assessing welfare in wildlife: the importance of validation.

 

HOW TO FIND US:

Location:  School of Veterinary Medicine & Science at the University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington, LE12 5RD.

https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/about/visitorinformation/mapsanddirections/suttonbonington.aspx

Free parking is available on site. The nearest Railway Station is East Midlands Parkway, about a 5 minute taxi ride from the campus.

Getting here

There are excellent road, rail and air links to the Sutton Bonington campus from the rest of the UK and overseas.

Road - 2 miles (3km) from Junction 24 of the M1 motorway.

Rail - 3 miles (5km) from East Midlands Parkway railway station (90 minutes from London) and 6 miles (10km) from Loughborough railway station.

Air - 5 miles (7km) from East Midlands Airport, with regular flights to mainland Europe.