As our BERG seminars are generously funded by UFAW, and as their University link, I shall
send on various bits of information about UFAW, and their meetings.
Hannah
From: Stephen Wickens [mailto:wickens@ufaw.org.uk]
Sent: 22 September 2014 12:22
To: 'Stephen Wickens'
Subject: 2nd call for papers: UFAW Symposium 'Animal Populations – World Resources and
Animal Welfare'
Animal Populations – World Resources and Animal Welfare
UFAW International Animal Welfare Science Symposium
Zagreb, Croatia 14-15th July 2015
Humans and their kept animals (farm and companion animals) comprise the larger part of the
world's vertebrate biomass. The world’s resources are limited, and as humans use more
of these, fewer resources are available for wild and other animals. Whether like it or
not, we humans now control or greatly influence the population sizes of many, and perhaps
all, other vertebrate species, and decisions that we make to keep more of some species
e.g., domestic, and farm animals have implications on the numbers and welfare of animals
of other species that the world can support.
How do we apportion resources between kept and wild animals? How do we balance the welfare
interests of one species against that of another? Modern veterinary science enables us to
keep a high proportion of animals alive to old age (when we wish it), but these occupy
niches that would otherwise have been filled by young replacements: but is fewer
long-lived animals better than more short-lived ones? Little effort seems to have been
made to address how such balances should be struck. It appears that it is time to try to
decide how many of which animals we want and how to achieve that most humanely.
This meeting will consider issues surrounding the rationales and methodologies of humane
control of animal populations (kept and free-living) in pursuit of preserving biodiversity
and minimising welfare risks to animals.
Programme:
The following speakers have already been confirmed:
• Professor Donald Broom (University of Cambridge, UK) ‘New directions for
sustainable animal production systems and the role of animal welfare’
• Professor David Fraser (University of British Columbia, Canada) ‘Cars, cats,
climate change and other neglected problems of animal welfare’
• Professor David Macdonald (University of Oxford, UK) ‘Animal welfare: From rough
trade to compassionate conservation’
• Professor Frauke Ohl (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands) ‘Considering animal
welfare: Does context matter?’
Contributing to the symposium:
UFAW is inviting further contributions to the symposium on subjects related to the theme
of humane control of animal populations. Areas that we would be interested in this
conference addressing include, but are not limited to, contributions relating to:
• Domestic animal/wildlife conflicts, e.g. feral dogs, domestic cats
• Welfare aspects of husbandry changes made to reduce livestock greenhouse gas
emissions
• Humane control of invasive vertebrates
• The implications for wildlife and their resources of maintaining unwanted
domesticated animals
• Humane reintroductions
• How do we take decisions regarding the fate of animals that are no longer needed
such as research animals, zoo animals?
• Farmed livestock population management – how many is enough?
Please submit a title and abstract for consideration by email before Wednesday 26th
November 2014. Both oral and poster presentations will be accepted. Abstracts of all
accepted talks and posters will be placed on UFAW’s website in advance of the symposium.
Further details on how to format the abstract can be found on the symposium webpage.
Registration details
Early registration for the symposium is at the reduced cost of £180 per person until 1st
March 2015, registration will be £215 thereafter. Places are limited so please contact us
as soon as possible to register your attendance.
Prices include attendance at the symposium for the two days, lunch and refreshments and a
drinks reception on the evening of the 14th July.
Further details on the symposium, including a registration form and booking accommodation
can be found on the UFAW website:
http://www.ufaw.org.uk/zagreb2015.php
Contact details:
Dr Stephen Wickens, Zagreb 2015, UFAW, The Old School, Brewhouse Hill, Wheathampstead,
Hertfordshire, AL4 8AN, UK. Tel: +44(0)1582 831818; Fax: +44(0)1582 831414; Email:
wickens@ufaw.org.uk<file:///\\wickens@ufaw.org.uk>
The Universities Federation for Animal Welfare (UFAW) is an independent registered charity
that works to develop and promote improvements in the welfare of all animals through
scientific and educational activity worldwide.
Assisting in the organisation of this meeting is Dr Mario Ostović of the Faculty of
Veterinary Medicine, University of Zagreb, Croatia.
The Humane Slaughter Association (HSA), UFAW’s sister charity, is holding a symposium at
the same venue on the 16-17th July 2015, see
www.hsa.org.uk<http://www.hsa.org.uk>
for further details.
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