Program

DAY 01 | 09 MARCH

08:00 Registration and Tea at exhibitors

08:30 Welcome and trade introduction

08:50 Anaesthesia Leith Meyer   Pushing the innovative boundaries with care when developing novel immobilisation drug combinations 

09:20 Reproduction Morne de la Rey How close are we to cracking the comeback of the Northern white rhino?

09:40 Anaesthesia Judy Christie Pilot study of the pharmacokinetics of thiafentanil and naltrexone using goats as a model species

10:00 Tea Break

10:40 Management Adrian Tordiffe The reintroduction of southern African cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus) to India with a focus on the disease risk analysis

11:10 Management Andy Fraser Cheetah quarantine for export

11:30 Management Adrian Tordiffe Management of transport of cheetah for export purposes

11:50 Management Kobus du Toit Firsts in wildlife aviation

12:10 Lunch

13:10 Anaesthesia Gary Bauer Case Study: Use of etorphine, medetomidine (and azaperone) in immobilisation of white Rhinoceros for purposes of DNA sampling and identification (ear notching, microchipping) Botswana in 2020?

13:40 Management Ni-Mari Smith Cultivating wildlife cells to produce cultivated meat

14:00 Disease Christina Eberhardt  Cardiac rhythm abnormalities in healthy captured and free-ranging

    immobilized white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) using a surface electrocardiogram

14:15 Disease Katja Koeppel Ground hornbills and lead poisoning

14:45 Reproduction Chris Perkins   Successes and failures of in-field setups for laparoscopic sterilisations on wild populations of problem macaques and wild boars in Hong Kong. 

15:15 Tea Break

15:55 Disease Jennie Hewlett Vaccinating African buffalo against tuberculosis 

16:25 Marine Chris Perkins An introduction to wild cetacean (dolphins and whales) management and treatments

16:50 General Anita Michel The World Organisation for Animal Health and Wildlife

17:05 General Marietjie Venter Understand COVID-19 evolution and reverse zoonoses in South Africa?

17:20 General Kobus du Toit Veterinary Foundation

Braai

DAY 02 | 10 MARCH

08:00 Welcome| Exhibitors

08:10 Clinical Leith Meyer Capture-induced stress in wildlife: deficiencies in its current assessment and treatment

08:40 Clinical Jessica Humphreys Investigating respiratory disease in black-footed cats (Felis nigripes)

09:00 Clinical Dorothy Breed  Physiological responses of wild antelope to exercise training as a prospective treatment to prevent capture myopathy

9:20 Anaesthesia Luke Michaelides Comparison of the acute stress response in southern white rhinoceros 

    (Ceratotherium simum simum) immobilized with four different drug protocols

9:40 Legal Brendan Tindall SAVC 

10:00 Tea Break

10:40 Anaesthesia Animesh Talukdar Chemical immobilization of select high altitude free-ranging carnivores

11:00 Anaesthesia Wanlaya Tipkantha Wild gaurs (Bos gaurus) anaesthesia using the combination of thiafentanil oxalate (A3080)- medetomidine HCl-ketamine HCl in Khao Phangma non-hunting area, Thailand

11:20 Anaesthesia James Watuwa Retrospective study of anaesthetic protocols used in restraint of captive African lions Panthera leo) at UWEC-ZOO, Uganda

11:40 Legal Rene Doms Legal Update

12:20 General SAVA session

12:35 Lunch

13:30 Disease LM de Klerk-Lorist SAT strains in buffalo and risks associated with lack of fence integrity - Case study 1

13:50 Disease Dewald Keet SAT strains in buffalo and risks associated with lack of fence integrity - Case study 2

14:10 Anaesthesia Annette Roug Efficacy and safety of three different opioid-based immobilisation protocols in blesbok (Damaliscus pygargus phillipsi)

14:50 Anaesthesia Ellie Milnes Ketamine-butorphanol-azaperone-medetomidine (KBAM) as an alternative to etorphine anaesthesia in zoo Przewalski's horses (Equus przewalskii)

15:10 Legal David Pretorius Buffalo Protocol - Update on "authorised veterinarian" proposal in government services

15:50 Tea

16:15 Marine Luca Mendes Domoic acid toxicosis may explain unusual mortality in Cape fur seals 

    (Arctocephalus pusillus pusillus)

16:35      General       Young members         Introduction of students and projects

16:45 AGM

Dinner | Dance

DAY 03 |11 March

08:30 Welcome

08:40 Management Erik Verreynne Did Cyanobacteria cause the mortality of more than 350 elephants 

09:10 Reproduction Emily Mitchell Ovarian transdifferentiation in six lionesses (Panthera leo) in South Africa

09:30 Clinical cases Ampie Viljoen The use of external fixation devices in fractured cheetah leg repair

09:50 Disease Baty Dungu FMD - Vaccines

10:10 Tea Break

10:50 Management Danie Odendaal The practical use of disease trends

11:10 Management Richard York Sustainable use vs Preservation vs Conservation

11:30 General Richard Burroughs The development of a searchable database from WhatsApp and Telegram groups for rapid information sharing

11:45 Anaesthesia Hendrik Hansen Rhino anaesthesia

12:05 Clinical cases Ampie Viljoen Dehorning radiography

12:25 Anaesthesia Chris Smith Hippo capture in water - methods and anaesthesia

12:45 Lunch