69th WDA / 14th EWDA - Joint Virtual Conference - Cuenca, Spain August 31 - September 2

EWDA Wildlife Health Surveillance Network meeting

 

EWDA Network Meeting:
Expanding the field network of wildlife health surveillance

69th Annual WDA conference and 14th Biennial EWDA Joint Virtual Conference
Monday August 30th, 2021

 

BACKGROUND

Successful wildlife health surveillance schemes often benefit from multi-disciplinary teams. Engagement and collaboration with an extended field network can help optimise surveillance outputs and their collective impact. The goal of this meeting is to illustrate the opportunities that exist to expand surveillance through working in partnership with various communities (e.g. general public/citizen scientists, hunters, wildlife rehabilitators, conservation organisations, bird ringers, habitat managers, natural history museums, public health agencies and social scientists) and employing new approaches. Presentations will highlight projects/schemes that have successfully employed novel networks and/or techniques. The panel discussion session will enable presenters to explore the benefits and limitations of these methods. We hope that these presentations will provide inspiration to others who may be able to reapply the lessons learned in their countries.

REGISTRATION

Please register here to attend the event

Attendance is free of charge.

A virtual Zoom meeting link will be emailed to registered attendees 72 hours before the meeting.

For queries, email EWDA.Network@gmail.com


MINI-SLIDE PRESENTATION

Anyone who is involved in wildlife health surveillance and wishes to present information about how they have successfully extended their field network for wildlife health surveillance through collaboration with wider communities is invited to submit a mini-slide presentation. These will be available for participants to view during the meeting breaks (as a virtual alternative to poster presentations).

Those attending who would like to present a mini-slide presentation at the meeting are asked to email EWDA.Network@gmail.com by 16th July 2021 to confirm their interest and receive guidelines for abstract and presentation formatting. The abstract (maximum 300 words) submission deadline is 1st August 2021.
 

PROGRAMME (CET)

14:00-14:05.

Welcome and introduction - Thijs Kuiken

14:05-14:25.

Working with Citizen Scientists
Becki Lawson, Institute of Zoology, UK

14:25-14:45.

Working with citizens to monitor tick-associated risk: lessons learned from the CiTIQUE project
Jonas Durand, Projet CITIQUE, Tous Chercheurs, INRAE Université Lorraine, France

MINI BREAK

14.45-14.50

 

14:50-15:10.

Working with hunters
Christian Gortazar, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain

15.10-15.30.

Working with habitat managers

Ruth Cromie, Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust, UK

BREAK

15.30-16.00

Mini-presentations available to view

16.00-16.20.

Working with mammalogists
Lineke Begeman, Erasmus MC, The Netherlands

16:20-16.40

Working with wildlife rehabilitators

Sonia Hernandez, University of Georgia, USA

16.40-17.00.

Working with indigenous communities

Susan Kutz, University of Calgary, Canada

BREAK

17.00-17.30

Mini-presentations available to view

17:30-17.50.

Using technology to improve wildlife health surveillance

Erik Ågren, National Veterinary Institute, Sweden

17.50-18:20.

Panel discussion: Benefits and limitations of linking with various communities to expand the field network. Lessons learned and recommendations.  
(Panel: all speakers. Chair: Thijs Kuiken)

18.20-18.30.

Concluding remarks -Thijs Kuiken

18.30-19.00

Informal small break out rooms