UK and Ireland
REEC
The second UK and Ireland Regional
Environmental Enrichment Conference was held at Bristol Zoo Gardens, UK from the
20th to the 22nd of April 2008. The meeting was a great
success with around 80 delegates from a number of different institutions
attending. In addition to over 20 talks on a variety of
topics; from enrichment for echidnas, aye-ayes and seahorses
to how to enrich animals whilst in quarantine. Dr Amy
Plowman repeated the workshop on A Keeper's Guide to
Evaluating Enrichment
(to
download the PDF please click here), and followed up
with the second workshop of the series 'Enrichment Schedules
and Presenting your Results'.
The conference also
included a workshop on rope splicing, a scrapheap challenge
to make an enrichment device and a '10 enrichments in 10
minutes' game show. The discussion session covered the
topics of food versus non-food enrichments, edible versus
inedible enrichment device materials and the sue of natural
versus non-natural enrichments. The notes from these
discussions will be available on this website soon.
The conference was a
great success, thanks to all who attended, Bristol Zoo
Gardens for their organisation and hospitality and the REEC
committee for their hard work.
The conference
proceedings will be available to download on this website
soon so watch this space.
1st
Conference proceedings document
1st
Conference
discussion notes
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