(CN) Wildlife lecture in Hong Kong

[Guest guest]

Chris Furley, Chief examiner for the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons,

Diploma in Zoological Medicine

 

05 March 2002, Tuesday 6:30 - 8:00 pm

 

Police Officers' Club, Hung Hing Road, Causeway Bay

 

Chris Furley, lecturer in Wildlife Health at the University of London, with

wide experience in zoo medicine in the UK, Middle East and Africa and

consultant for a number of wildlife projects and zoos, will meet and share

with you his medical insight on his work.

 

Chris Furley has worked for 20 yrs with zoo animals and wild life in 3

continents - he started off as consultant to the Government of Abu Dhabi for

6 years - working with both public zoos and private animal collections.

Since then he has been based in the UK, where he work with 1,500 captive

animals, including the largest groups of lowland gorillas, black rhino and

African and Asian elephants in captivity, plus the world's largest groups of

Asian leaf-eating monkeys.

 

He has been involved with a gorilla rescue and release program in the Congo

for over 14 years since its inception. The project has lived through two

civil wars which nearly destroyed it.

 

He has also set up his own publishing company and published the world's only

journal which includes material on infectious agents of humans, animals and

the environment in an attempt to bring the medical and veterinary

professions together - The Infectious Disease Review.

 

He is also consultant for a number of wildlife projects and zoos in various

countries, and has a particular interest in mammals and birds, capture

techniques and medical aspects of wildlife management programs dealing with

either re-introduction or park management.

 

Cost: A donation of $ 100 per person to the SPCA to help homeless animals in

Hong Kong. In order to ensure a space is reserved for you, please send a

cheque to " SPCA, Hong Kong " at 5 Wan Shing Street, Wanchai, Hong Kong.

 

For reservations, please call Vivian on 2232 5521 or Connie at 2232 5542.

Space is limited. First come first serve.