WEBINAR SERIES – MITIGATING WILD BOAR CONFLICT AROUND THE WORLD:
THE POTENTIAL FOR USING FERTILITY CONTROL

The BIWFC hosted the webinar series, “Mitigating Wild Boar Conflict Around the World: The Potential for Using Fertility Control,” for three consecutive Thursdays in June 2021.  This workshop series included 18 speakers and covered such topics as Human Dimensions of Wild Pig Management, Perspectives and Challenges from Around the World, Modelling and Populations Surveying, Tools and Implementation, and Research and Development of Fertility Control Agents. CLICK HERE to watch all three webinars.

WEBINAR – PROVIDING ECOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL CONTEXT FOR ELEPHANT IMMUNOCONTRACEPTION: A CASE STUDY IN KWAZULU-NATAL, SOUTH AFRICA

The BIWFC hosted the webinar “Providing ecological and social context for elephant immunocontraception: a case study in Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa” with Paul Cryer, Ecologist and Coordinator of the African Conservation Trust’s Applied Ecology Unit on April 15 2021. This presentation reviewed the setting in which elephant immunocontraception has been applied within Ithala Game Reserve, a community-owned provincial protected area in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. CLICK HERE to watch the webinar and/or the PowerPoint presentation.

WEBINAR – BIWFC WINTER 2021 GRANT CYCLE  PRE-APPLICANT INFORMATIONAL WEBINAR

As part of BIWFC’s 5th anniversary celebration in 2021, we are pleased to announce our next grant cycle with new and expanded grant categories! On February 4, 2021 Monique Principi, BIWFC’s Managing Director, and Stephanie Boyles Griffin, BIWFC’s Science and Policy Director presented a “Pre-Applicant Informational Webinar” in which they reviewed the new grant guidelines and instructions, the LOI and grant application timelines, and answered questions.  CLICK HERE to view the webinar and/or the Powerpoint.

WEBINAR – THE USE OF FERTILITY CONTROL TO MANAGE URBAN PRAIRIE DOG POPULATIONS 

In this webinar, which originally aired on January 28, 2021, BIWFC Grant Recipient Dan Salkeld, Research Scientist II at Colorado State University, discusses results of an investigation into the potential of an immunocontraceptive – GonaCon – to humanely and sustainably manage prairie dog populations by reducing breeding success. Three matched pairs of sites were used in this study – one site where adult female prairie dogs were vaccinated with GonaCon, and one site where a sham vaccine was administered – in Fort Collins and Denver, Colorado. CLICK HERE to view the webinar.