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BIWFC ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEMBER PRESENTS ON RODENT FERTILITY CONTROL
BIWFC Advisory Committee Member Jens Jacob, recently presented “Fertility control of rodents – progress and challenges,” to nearly 25 young scientists and post graduate students from eastern African countries including Madagascar, Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia and Zambia. The presentation focused on options for anti-fertility agents, their delivery and a framework for research and application of fertility control in rodents. Jens’ presentation was part of “Ecological principles and the management of rodents in agricultural ecosystems,” a training course held at Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania in early May 2023. The course was designed to foster the importance of population ecology in pest management, together with an emphasis on farmer participatory research as a foundation for technology transfer.
In addition to serving on the BIWF Advisory Committee, Jens also serves as Group Leader at the Julius Kühn-Institute (JKI) – Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants, Institute for Epidemiology and Pathogen Diagnostics in Germany.
BIWFC EUROPE DIRECTOR PRESENTS ON WILDLIFE FERTILITY CONTROL AT IUCN HWCC 2023
At the 2023 International Conference on Human-Wildlife Conflict and Coexistence in Oxford in April 2023, Giovanna Massei, BIWFC Europe Director, presented the talk “The other side of human wildlife conflicts – a global perspective on fertility control to manage overabundant wildlife.”
BIWFC STAFF VISITS UNITED KINGDOM
BIWFC Advisory Committee Chair Stephanie Boyles Griffin and Managing Director Monique Principi visited the UK in late March 2023 to meet with BIWFC Europe Director Giovanna Massei in York and attend the International Conference on Human-Wildlife Conflict and Coexistence in Oxford. They also met with colleagues working in the wildlife fertility control field. Read more.
BIWFC DIRECTOR HAS PAPER PUBLISHED IN “ANIMALS” JOURNAL
BIWFC Director Giovanna Massei’s paper Fertility Control for Wildlife: A European Perspective was recently published in the Animals open access journal. Animals is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal devoted entirely to animals, including zoology and veterinary sciences, published semimonthly online by MDPI.
REPRODUCTIVE MANAGEMENT COURSE
The aim of this e-course is to provide an overview of what reproductive management is and how it may be brought into management and veterinary decisions to improve the sustainability of in and ex situ animal management.
OVISTOP ® FACT SHEET
Ovistop® is an avian oral contraceptive formulated by adding nicarbazin (0.08 g for 100 g) to corn kernels. Click here to read more.