BIAZA Conservation Conference: “One Health”

This event will be hosted by RZSS Edinburgh Zoo, on 24th and 25th January 2023, with a weather-dependent optional day trip available to Highland Wildlife Park on 26th. As well as a range of updates and presentations on some of the latest zoo and aquarium field projects, we will be holding a number of thematic sessions focussing on ‘One Health’ – considering the intrinsically linked issues of wildlife health, environmental health and human health, and what it means for conservation.

What does One Health actually mean to me and why should I think about it?

If the Covid-19 pandemic has shown us anything it is the importance of wildlife health to our health. Exacerbated by the trade in wildlife and climate change, diseases are turning up in new places and encountering species that have never come across them before. Sometimes with devastating effect.

The species we work with have small, genetically deprived populations in the wild and as BIAZA members we spend our working lives conserving them in many ways

Is this fourth horse of the apocalypse going to undo all this good work? Of course not! Come and hear from the BIAZA members and their partners that are putting measures in place and find out what your collection can do to help.

Speakers include Andrew Cunningham, Institute of Zoology, ZSL, Prof. Diana Bell, University of East Anglia, Olivia Walter, Wildlife Vets International.

Talks include Wild Tiger Health Project (spoiler alert – those of you with tigers have probably contributed to the content!), choughs in Kent, pink pigeons in Mauritius, swine flu and pygmy hogs in India, Asian frogs in Madagascar, beavers in Scotland, CDV, SARS, H5N1 and a whole host of other acronyms!

We are now welcoming abstracts for 15 minute presentations or three minute speed talks. Please complete the abstract submission form and return it to [email protected] by 18th November. Posters do not need to be submitteed and can be brought with you on the day when you attend the conference. 

Tickets are now live and can be purchased here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/biaza-field-conservation-conference-tickets-461780587167