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| Amphibian Husbandry course participants |
Information and capacity building are some of the needs in countries of South America, in this way to work more efficiently in conservation. Is for this reason that Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust
www.durrell.org with Amphibian Ark
www.amphibianark.org, ALPZA, TEMAIKÉN and Universidad Nacional de Jujuy organized the course “Manejo y conservación de anfibios en cautiverio” (Amphibian husbandry Course) in Buenos Aires Argentina.
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Exercise with different options for UV lights |
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UV light reading out in the sun |
In this occasion we collaborated in the course with the experience of the Bolivian amphibian Initiative
www.bolivianamphibianinitiative.org with the work we carry out and with the tools are available in a country like Bolivia, showing options, limitations, success and failures working with amphibians. We also were able to share the knowledge acquired these last months in the Conservation Training internship at Durrell.
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| water quality test options |
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| Water quality test exercise |
This course took several subjects about amphibian conservation with a main focus in captive breeding. It provided information, experiences about the captive breeding work, with aspects like amphibian care (temperature, water quality, nutrition, enclosure design and others), diseases, biosecurity and amphibian population management among others.
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| Marking techniques exercise |
The participants developed ex-situ plans for five Latin-American species of amphibians. This also was a great opportunity to gather people working with amphibians, not just conservationist also other areas that working together can improve the conservation work with endangered amphibians.
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| Post mortem exercise |
After this course several participants went back to their countries with a lot new ideas and plans to organize or improve their amphibian conservation projects. Also with the new contacts that now we know and that we can work together with the goal to try to save species from extinction.
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| Creating our enclosure exercise 1 |
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| Creating our enclosure exercise 2 |
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| Creating our enclosure exercise 3 |
Excellent initiative! When you offer this captive breeding course again, sure I wanna do. Here in Brazil it is very difficult to find courses with this topic.
ResponderEliminarWe also need to urgently start captive breeding programs for some of our species.