INTENSIVE WORKSHOP ON WILD AND FERAL DOMESTIC

INTENSIVE WORKSHOP ON WILD AND FERAL DOMESTIC
ANIMAL CAPTURE, 19- 21 June 2014
-Practical distance immobilisation by blowpipe and dart rifleAgriturismo Surripa - Località Surripa – 05022 Amelia (TR)
ITALY
Società Italiana Medici Veterinari degli Animali Selvatici e da Zoo
sezione nazionale della European Association of Zoo and Wildlife Veterinarians
Speakers/ Field Instructors
Klaus G. Friedrich - Presidente SivasZoo - Medico Veterinario - Direttore Sanitario della
Clinica Veterinaria del Giardino Zoologico di Roma
William Magnone – Medico Veterinario – SivasZoo - Parco Natura Viva - Verona
Marina Valente – Italian Wildlife and Zoo Veterinary Emergency Team - Roma
ATF-Anerkennung: 22 Stunden
Thursday 19.6.2014
14.00-14:30 Registration of the partecipants at Agriturismo “Surripa”
14:30-15:00 Presentation of the practical training course
Klaus G. Friedrich
15:00-17:00 Introduction and preparation of capture operations by remote injection of wild
and feral domestic animals
Klaus G. Friedrich, Marina Valente
17.00-17:30 Coffee break
17:30-18:30 Drugs, pharmacology and anesthesia protocols in field conditions for
European wildlife and feral domestic animals
William Magnone , Klaus G. Friedrich
18:30-20:30 Discussion of the practical field use of darts, blowpipes and dart rifles
Klaus G. Friedrich, William Magnone, Marina Valente
20.30 Social Dinner at the Agriturismo
Friday 20.6.2014
08:30-10:30 Workshop
- Special equipment for remote injection
- Security for the veterinarian and collaborators in capture operations
- Training in dart loading
-Training in blowpipe an dart rifle shooting
10:30-10:45 Coffee break
10:45-12:30 Preparation of the first capture operation in the field:
- Evaluation of the environment
- Evaluation of anesthesia protocols
- Approach to the animal
- Remote dart injection
- Animal recovery in the field
- Field anesthesia monitoring
- Emergency protocols and basic life support
- Transport and release of the animals
- Security for operators
- Control of animal welfare and health during the different steps of the capture
operation
Depending on the season and the annual health care plan of the wild animal park, the capture
operations can include wild boar, red deer, fallow deer, feral cattle, muflon, etc.
12:30-13:00 Lunch
13:00-15:00 First capture operation in the field
15:00-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-18:30 First capture operation in the field
Saturday 21.6.2014
8:30-10:00 Workshop and preparation of the second capture operation in the field
10:00-10:45 Coffee break
10:45-12:30 Second capture operation in the field
12:30-13:00 Lunch
13.00-15:00 Second capture operation in the field
15:00-15:30 Coffee break
15:30-18:00 Course evaluation and final discussion

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