University LINKs Scheme

Professor Culum Brown
Biological Sciences Dept
Email: culum.brown@mq.edu.au

Dr Ngaio Beausoleil
Institute of Veterinary, Animal & Biomedical Sciences
Email: N.J.Beausoleil@massey.ac.nz

Professor Andrew Fisher
Faculty of Veterinary & Agricultural Sciences
email: adfisher@unimelb.edu.au

Professor David Miller
School of Veterinary & Life Sciences
Email: D.Miller@murdoch.edu.au

Dr Edward Narayan
School of Agriculture and Food Sciences
Email: e.narayan@uq.edu.au

2017:

Mini-symposium on Animal Welfare in Africa, University of Queensland
University of Queensland (Professor Clive Phillips)

The Centre for Animal Welfare and Ethics of the University of Queensland Veterinary School organized a mini-symposium on Animal Welfare in Africa on 25 October, 2017, with support from the UFAW LINK scheme.

Keynote speaker, Professor Peter Thornber opened the meeting by talking on the social issues facing livestock keepers in Africa and emphasising the close connection between human and animal welfare. He outlined the growing trade in donkeys with China, which are used to produce a gelatine-based ‘aphrodisiac’ Ejiao, for the Chinese medicine market, and which is the focus of concern. Some 14 countries in African have now banned the export of donkey skins and live donkeys due to the social impact of losing working donkeys, particularly for village women.

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University of Sydney
Dr Peter Higgins, Faculty of Veterinary Science
Email: peter.higgins@sydney.edu.au

Dr Caralyn Kemp
Environmental and Animal Sciences
Email:  ckemp2@unitec.ac.nz

2018:

Animal welfare seminar series

With support from the UFAW LINK scheme, Unitec ran the first of what they intend to be a series of animal welfare seminars in 2018. These seminars gave students the opportunity to hear about a range of animal welfare research and initiatives being conducted in NZ and were well attended.

The seminars covered the following topics:

·       August 2018: Dr Karen Stockin (Massey University) Marine mammal strandings: Welfare and conservation

·       September 2018: Debbie Busby (Evolution Equine, UK) Behaviour matters. Understanding the importance of behaviour in assessing and assuring companion animal welfare

·       October 2018: Dr Alison Vaughan (RNZSPCA) Potty training cows. The future of dairy farming?

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