Regional Environmental Enrichment Conferences

  IPS 2008 pre-training workshop

Workshop: Improving captive primate welfare through good behavioural husbandry

Aims

1. Briefly outline welfare concepts.

2. Provide a comprehensive overview of behavioural husbandry (BH).

3. Use ‘peer’ led practical interactive sessions to encourage motivation, knowledge and understanding of why there is a need for BH. 

4. Determine what practical limitations exist to implementing BH in the delegate’s institution.

5. Trouble-shoot recommendations to enable and motivate the implementation of BH.

6. Give appropriate advice and support to ensure delegates can develop BH regimes in their home institution.

Rationale

In recent years there have been major advances in the provision of behavioural husbandry in zoos.  Much of this information is made available at conferences (IPS, ICEE, ABMA etc.) and in peer-reviewed and professional journals.  It is well known that financial, and other, support of habitat country zoos and sanctuaries is limited.  This impedes the transfer of knowledge to employees from these institutions. 

This workshop aims to proactively promote the welfare of captive primates by providing employees from habitat country zoos and/or sanctuaries with the knowledge, skills, motivation and management skills to implement BH in their home institutions. 

We hope to achieve these aims by providing comprehensive information from people actively working in this area.  Using peers (other keepers etc.) we hope to inspire and encourage motivation for BH through practical knowledge.  Above all this workshop should be enjoyable and will hopefully build networks between institutions which are all working to maintain primates with exceptional welfare.

Audience: Zoo and sanctuary employees without ready access to similar training programmes.

Duration: About 5 days (Wednesday 30^th July to Sunday 3^rd August, 2008)

Location: Edinburgh Zoo.

 

 

 

 

 

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