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2nd International Conference on Dog Population Management

Building on the success of our first conference on dog population management, the coalition took the conference to Istanbul, Turkey. We hosted specialists from 30 countries across six continents, who came together to talk about the intricate and complicated relationship between dogs and humans.

This conference brought together people from across the public sector together with specialists in animal welfare, animal health and education, ecologists, economists and social scientists, to promote humane and sustainable dog population management worldwide.

The conference’s aims, objectives, and outcomes.

Aims:

  • To facilitate discussions and sharing of information on DPM among stakeholders
  • To promote awareness of novel approaches to DPM
  • To encourage inter-sectoral collaboration, innovation and policy development
  • To provide evidence-based information for effective, humane DPM
  • To promote animal and human health and wellbeing by reducing the incidence of zoonoses and the environmental impacts associated with dog population control.

Objectives:

  • Increased awareness of innovative approaches for countries and research groups
  • Dissemination of the results of research and practical applications between scientists, stakeholders and policy makers
  • Enhanced prospects of decreasing the economic burden of rabies and other zoonoses through the use of evidence-based methodologies
  • Demonstration of the benefits of the One Health approach to animal, human and environmental welfare

 Outcomes:

  • Increased awareness of innovative approaches for countries and research groups;
  • Dissemination of the results of research and practical applications between scientists, stakeholders and policy makers;
  • Enhanced prospects of decreasing the economic burden of rabies and other zoonoses through the use of evidence-based methodologies;
  • Demonstration of the benefits of the One Health approach to animal, human and environmental welfare.

Programme of events:

Please see here for the abstract book and programme from the conference. All presentations were recorded and can be viewed on our YouTube channel. And each presentation can be downloaded below:

Day One:

Day Two:

  • Keynote Presentation: Dr Linda Rhodes – An overview of non-surgical sterilisation
  • Dog Population Management in Jamshedpur, India:  a model for improving welfare and achieving impact through human behaviour change (Joy Lee)
  • Dogs are a development issue: The social impacts of roaming and poorly managed dogs on human communities (Kate Atema)
  • Development of a robust canine welfare assessment for dogs in trap-neuter-return programmes (Heather Bacon)
  • Towards a scientific-based assessment of dogs’ welfare in shelters (Shanis Barnard)
  • Recommendations for using behavioural indicators to assess animal welfare impact of dog population management interventions (Louisa Tasker)
  • Are DPM programmes targeting the source of FRDs? A 13-years retrospective study (Stefano Messori)
  • Community regulation of the ecology of four owned, free-roaming dog populations (Hanna Lentz)
  • Population size estimates for street dogs: the good, the bad and the shortcuts (John Boone)
  • Development of integrated and humane management solutions to diminish negative effects of free-roaming dogs on a Chilean Patagonian community (Elena Garde)
  • Assessment of free-roaming dog health and evaluation of knowledge, attitude and practice of dog owners to canine rabies in Chitwan District, Nepal (Giovanna Massei)

Day Three:

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