The focus areas of this 15 day course are: Rhino and elephant management, Wildlife genetics and health, Disease control, Livestock and wildlife, Game capture essentials and Embryo transplant in wildlife. This program 1015-22747 is approved by the American Association of Veterinary State Boards (AAVSB) Registry of Approved Continuing Education (RACE) to offer a total of 31.00 CE Credits (31.00 max) being available to any one veterinarian: and/or 31.00 Veterinary Technician CE Credits (31.00 max).

 

Course content

• Rhinoceros and wildlife management/conservation and the role of veterinary science

• Elephant management and the role of the veterinarian in population control

• Priorities in and the handling of clinical wildlife veterinary cases

• Maintaining wildlife genetics integrity and the functioning of the wildlife veterinary genetics laboratory

• Managing the wildlife and particularly the overpopulation of elephant in Kruger National Park

• Managing the vegetation ecology to the benefit of wildlife health in the Kruger National Park

• The scope of running wildlife veterinary services in Kruger

• The red line and enzootic area management

• Diseases share by livestock and wildlife and zoonosis in the region

• Applied wildlife parasitology

• Wildlife post mortem and necropsy procedures

• The pharmacological working of various capture drugs for wildlife

• Different dartguns for different applications and applicable darts and propelling methods

• Talks, discussions, demonstrations and hands-on participation in actual game capture operations for purposes of relocation, tagging, diagnostics, vaccination and disease or injury treatment

• Wildlife conservation value of successful in vitro fertilisation and embryo transfers

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