Advance notice of a one day symposium on Diseases of Wildlife
Following on our successful symposia in 2006, 2008 and 2010 a fourth symposium is to be held at The Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, London, W1G 0AE on Thursday, November 15, 2012
Topics will include:
- The 'Big society' and conservation
- 'One health' - integrating human, domestic animal and wildlife health
- Life in the Wild - contrasting the life of wild and domestic animals
- Disease threats from animal imports and pet travel
- Bat disease surveillance
- Cetacean stranding
A number of distinguished speakers have already been secured for what promises to be another influential and important meeting on wildlife diseases and management.
Full programme and details will be published on our web site.
Hunting wildlife management and the moral issue
Latest joint publication with the All Party Parliamentary Middle Way Group:
“We are pleased to collaborate again with the Middle Way Group to produce this latest document, the third in a series of joint publications, which we believe, together with our Veterinary Opinion on Hunting with Hounds published in 2002, represents an overwhelming welfare case for repeal of the Hunting Act (2004).”
Eighth Annual General Meeting 2011
The eighth Annual General Meeting of the Association was held at the Dunraven Arms, Adare, Co Limerick, Ireland on Wednesday, November 16, 2011. Pictures from the event are available with many thanks to our photographer - Paul Kane.
Understanding Life in the Wild
New review sheds light on the lives of wild animals
'Wild animals must be treated in ways that do not necessarily apply to domestic animals' according to a new review produced by the VAWM. 'Life in the Wild' highlights the fundamental differences in the way in which wild and domestic animals live and the differing approaches to their management and welfare.
In the wild there are pressures on wild animals, such as disease and population control that do not apply to domestic animals. In an environment that is called 'wild', yet is almost exclusively man-managed, there is a responsibility on man to ensure a proper balance is kept. Life in the Wild describes the detrimental consequences of 'leaving things to nature' and explains why certain actions that are unnecessary and possibly devastating to a domestic animal are essential and natural for wild animals.
Life in the Wild was launched at the CLA Game Fair, Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire on 23rd July 2011 at 11.30am in the Game fair theatre. Download a copy of Life in the Wild in PDF format on this link
A supplement to our response to the Government’s consultation on bovine TB and badger culling
Please download our supplement to our response to the Government’s consultation on bovine TB and badger culling on this link (PDF Format)
A response to the Government’s consultation on bovine TB and badger culling
Please download our full response to the Government's consultation on bovine TB and badger culling on this link (PDF Format)
