“Southern
and East African Experts Panel on Designing
Successful Conservation and Development Interventions
at the Wildlife/Livestock Interface:
Implications
for Wildlife, Livestock, and Human Health”
Sunday September 14th, Monday September
15th, 2003
Download
the AHEAD Briefing Booklet (PDF)
A two-day interactive forum at which approximately
55 invited Southern and East African and other experts share their
vision for conservation and development success at the wildlife
/ livestock interface with World Parks Congress attendees
and invited representatives from bilateral and multilateral development
agencies and other interested parties. Please note that due to
limited space and funding and the group size limitation imposed
by the interactive nature of the forum, participants have already
been invited and confirmed. Veterinary Specialist Group (VSG)
members and other interested parties who are not attending are
encouraged to send their thoughts and ideas on the themes described
below to VSG Co-Chairs William Karesh and Richard Kock and the
Regional Chair Jacob Mwanzia, or to Steve Osofsky, WCS Senior
Policy Advisor for Wildlife Health, at the Wildlife Conservation
Society: sosofsky@wcs.org.
Colleagues interested in these issues are also encouraged to visit
the IUCN SSC Veterinary Specialist Group (VSG) website at www.iucn-vsg.org.
Purpose
To foster a sharing of ideas among African practitioners
and development professionals that will lead to concrete and creative
initiatives that address conservation and development challenges
related to health at the livestock/wildlife/human interface. The
focus of presentations will be ongoing efforts and future needs
in and around the region's flagship protected areas and conservancies
and their buffer zones- the places where tensions and challenges
at the livestock/wildlife interface are often greatest.
The IUCN World Parks Congress is a very high profile
event both wherever it is held and in the international media.
The Congress is only held once every 10 years, and will likely
bring approximately 3,000 international attendees to Durban overall.
Organizations potentially interested in co-sponsoring the AHEAD
forum should contact Steve Osofsky at sosofsky@wcs.org.
Thank you.
