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TUESDAY 21 FEBRUARY
PRE CONGRESS WORKSHOPS
Critical monitoring during chemical immobilisation
Carnivore immobilisation
The Forensic necropsy
Ear notching and DNA
WEDNESDAY 22nd FEBRUARY
07:30 Registration
08:30 Welcome by dean FVS Prof Darrell Abernethy
08:45 Welcome by SAVA president Dr Johan Marais
09:00 Welcome and introduction by SAVA WG chairman
Dr Greg Simpson
RHINO AND ELEPHANT CONSERVATION MEDICINE THEME
9:15 “Medicine” required to save Africa’s rhinos Keynote Speaker:
Dr Michael Knight
10:00Tea
10:40Overview of Diseases of African Rhinoceros
Prof Michele Miller
11:20Mycobacterium bovis infection in a free-ranging black rhinoceros – application of tools to facilitate rapid diagnosis
Prof Michele Miller
11:40 Exploring the susceptibility of white rhinoceroses (Ceratotherium simum) to bovine tuberculosis Prof Anita Michel
12:00Lunch
13:00 Immune responses to mycobacterium bovis in white rhinoceros and their use in diagnosis of infection Dr Sven Parsons
13:20 A new pulse oximetry sensor design for the use in the white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) Dr Julia Reiners
13:40Plasma biochemistry reference intervals on two analysers for the white rhinoceros, Ceratotherium simum
Dr Emma Hooijberg
14:00 Comparing haematological and biochemical parameters of non-injured and criticallly injured immobilised white rhinoceroses (Ceratotherium simum simum) Dr JP du Preez
14:20 Health evaluation of a hand Raised orphaned elephant calf in captivity in Rajaji Tiger Reserve, India Dr Aditi Sharma
14:40Tea
15:20Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of intravenous and oral enrofloxacin and ciprofloxacin in white rhinoceros – a possible treatment option for injured poaching victims?
Dr Marion Leiberich
15:40 The characterisation of semen collected, by means of electro-ejaculation, from free-ranging African elephants (Loxodonta africana) and Southern white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum simum) using computer-aided sperm analysis (CASA). Ms Ilse Luther
16:00 Assisted reproduction technologies, biobanking and the one-plan-approach to species conservation: rhinos and elephant as examples Dr Imke Lüders
16:20 Factors influencing horn growth and consequences of dehorning game-ranched white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum simum) Dr Cyriel Ververs
16:40Drinks
18:00 Wine pairing and Quiz
THURSDAY 23RD FEBRUARY
8:00 Registration
8:30 What is special about black rhinos? Dr Dave Cooper
9:20Pneumocystis pneumonia in a white rhino orphan
Dr Nicolize O’Dell
9:40 Rhino orphans- lessons learnt Dr Albertus Coetzee &
Dr Ferreira du Plessis
10:20Tea
PEOPLE AND WILDLIFE THEME
11:00 Protected areas and people: where have all the elephant and rhino gone, and more important why? Keynote Speaker:
Dr Michael Kock
11:40 The rogue wild elephant Immobilization and release in Bandipur National Park, Karnataka, India. Dr Prayag H.S
12:00 The prevalence of tuberculosis in domesticated African Elephant (Loxodonta africana)and their handlersin the Victoria Falls and Livingstone area Dr Tapiwanashe George Hanyire
12:20Lunch
13:20Rhino dehorning as an effective anti poaching tool
Dr Jacques O’Dell
13:50 Impacts of climate change, anthropogenic pressure on Loxodonta africana and adaptation strategies for empowering conservation strategies in Kefta Sheraro national park, Tigray, Ethiopia Dr Mengistu Tilahun
14:10Detection of zoonotic arboviruses in wildlife in South Africa
Prof Marietjie Venter
14:30Assessment of public knowledge, attitude and practice towards rabies in Debark Woreda, North Gondar, Ethiopia
Dr Tilahun Bekele
14:50Tea
15:30 Experiences at field laboratory for wildlife
disease in ZimbabweDr Chris Foggin
16:10 How to move 500 elephant Dr Andre Uys
16:50OPEN DEBATE
18:50Drinks
FRIDAY 24TH FEBRUARY
08:00 Registration
WILDLIFE DISEASES THEME
8:30 Can we call them Wildlife Diseases anymore? Keynote Speaker: Dr William Karesh
9:10A goat pox virus outbreak in non-domestic hoofstock at Al Wabra wildlife preservation (AWWP), QATAR
Dr Francois le Grange
9:30 Pox virus investigation at the National Zoological Gardens of SA Mr Almero Oosthuizen
9:50 Moelcular diagnostics and epidemiology of Toxoplasma gondii in wildlife Dr Essa Suleman
10:10Monitoring adrenal cortical function as a measure of stress in blue wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus)
Dr Adél R de Haast
10:30Tea
11:10 The diagnostic sensitivity of selected tests for M. bovis infection in African buffaloes Dr Sven Parsons
11:40Use of novel tools for the detection of BTB in warthogs
Dr Eduard Roos
12:00 Veterinary biosafety management of wildlife utilisation during anthrax outbreaks in free-ranging wild animals in nature reserves in the west of the Greater Kruger National Park area Dr Bjorn Reininghaus
12:20 The high incidence of wild cheetah mortality during immobilisation Mr Vincent van der Merwe
12:40Lunch
13:40 Nutritional deficiencies in captive Caracal caracal(Caracal) andLeptailurus serval(Serval) kittens Dr Dorian Elliot
14:00 Prevalence of ocular pathology in two groups of adult captive cheetahs Dr Christie Boucher
14:20African wild dog canine distemper outbreak in a national park and subsequent vaccination campaign and health survey
Dr Louis van Schalkwyk
14:40 (Dis)temper tantrums: Investgating host susceptibility to canine distemper virus Dr Angelika Loots
15:00 Suspected hypokalemic polymyopathy in two white lion cubs (Panthera leo kruger) Dr Ellie Milnes
15:20Tea
16:00 The quick and the dead: pathogenesis of kidney disease in captive cheethas (Acinonyx jubatus) Dr Emily Mitchell
16:30Suspected copper deficiency associated myocardial degeneration “Falling Disease” in an adult roan antelope bull.
Dr Rick Last
16:50Haemorrhagic septicaemia-like syndrome in a Cape buffalo (Syncerus caffer) and a black impala (Aepyceros melampus), both culture negative forPasteurella multocida but positive forMoraxellasp withSalmonellaspp co-infections
Dr June Williams
17:10SAVA WG AGM
19:10Drinks
SATURDAY 25TH FEBRUARY
08:00Registration/Coffee and Tea @ Exhibitors
APPLIED CLINICAL PRACTICE
8:30 The rhino in the room 08:30 The rhino in the room
Keynote Speaker: Dr Johan Marais
9:10 Physiological and immunological effects of capture and confinement in lions Dr Danny Govender
9:30 The description of gastric ulceration in captive bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus/aduncus) at Ushaka Seaworld Dr Caryl Knox
9:50 Widllife fermentation vats Prof Tony Shakepeare
10:30Tea
11:10 Using heart rate variability in wildlife research to assess stress Dr Friederike Pohlin
11:30Capture induced hyperthermia in cheetahs
Dr Adrian Tordiffe
11:50 Endocrine monitoring of reproduction and stress in wildlife Prof Andre Ganswindt
12:20 Cardiopulmonary effects of anaesthesia maintained by propofol infusion versus isoflurane inhalation in cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) Dr Roxanne Buck
12:40Lunch
13:40 Evaluation of two different doses of butorphanol- medetomidine -midazolam for anaethesia in free-ranging versus captive black-footed cats (felis nigripes) Dr Birgit Eggers
14:00Thiafentanil-medetomidine is no faster at imobilising impala (Aepyceros melampus) compared to etorphine-medetomidine: a look into impala immobilisation
Dr Gareth Zeiler
14:20 Evaluation of a partially reversible immobilization protocol using Medetomidine, Butorphanol, Zolazepam-Tiletamine, and Ketamine in free-ranging warthogs (Phacochoeus africanus)in Kruger National Park. Dr Jenny Hewlett
14:40 Current antelope drug combinations as used by practising wildlife veterinarians in South Africa Dr Douw Grobler
15:10Tea
15:50 The cardiovascular effects of azaperone and butorphanol in etorphine immobilised white rhinos (Ceraotherium simum) Dr Peter Buss
16:10 Butorphanol in etorphine immobilised white rhinos improves arterial blood gases through reducing oxygen consumption? Dr Peter Buss
16:30Hypoxia during immobilization, not a simple cause
Dr Leith Meyer
17:10 Drinks
18:00 Gala dinner and talk – “Overview of natural history of southern Africa” Prof Duncan Mitchell