OPENING PLENARY

• National Parks along the river Danube
  Slideshow presentation by Budapest Zoo
• Introduction to Conference and Chairman’s thoughts of the past year:
  Dr Simon Tonge, Chairman of EAZA
• Welcome to Budapest Zoo and Botanical Garden:
  Prof Dr Miklós Persányi, General Director of Budapest Zoo and Botanical Garden
• Welcome to the City of Budapest:
  Mr István Tarlós, Mayor of Budapest
• An Update on EAZA Activities:
  Dr Lesley Dickie, Executive Director of EAZA
• Strategic Cooperation in Biodiversity Engagement:
  Key-note Speaker Dr Anna Omedes, Director of the Natural Sciences Museum of Barcelona, Ecsite Nature Group Steering Committee
• Closing of Opening plenary session:
  Dr Simon Tonge, Chairman of EAZA

CREATING TOOLS TO COMBAT CLIMATE CHANGE

Chair: Bryan Carroll, EAZA Conservation Committee

Conservation success stories from the field

• Ape project: Protection and Restoration of Critical Ape Habitat in Southern Borneo, Indonesia
  by Rosa Martínez Valverde / Gonzalo Fernández-Hoyo from Fundación Bioparc
• Southeast Asia project: Wrong time, wrong place: wildlife conservation challenges in Karen State, Burma
  by Dr Ross McEwing, Wildlife Forensic Programme Manager from The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland

Pole to Pole Campaign

• Pole to Pole update with special focus on the second campaign year
  by José Kok, Pole to Pole campaign chair
• Making politicians take notice: How an EAZA petition could be most effective, and why young people are the key
  by Michael Sani, Bite the ballot
• The psychology behind pro-environmental behaviour
  by Ellen van der Werff, Groningen University, the Netherlands
• How to engage your zoo in campaign activities
  by Eva Anderson, Nordens Ark

VETERINARY CARE AND MANAGEMENT IN EAZA COLLECTIONS - PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN CURE

Chair: Danny de Man, EAZA Executive Office

• Good Veterinary Practice and the EAZA Veterinary Committee’s mission statement and strategy
  by Jacques Kaandorp, Safaripark Beekse Bergen, chairman EAZA Veterinary Committee
• Transmissible Diseases; a cause for headache?
  by Alexis Lecu, Paris Zoo (MNHN), president European Association of Zoo and Wildlife Veterinarians, chair EAZWV Transmissible Disease Working Group
• Preventative diseases management and breeding programmes; conflict or synergy?
  by Stephanie Sanderson, Chester Zoo, president-elect European Associations of Zoo and Wildlife Veterinarians
• The newly released Veterinary Module in ZIMS by
  Peter Donlon, International Species Information System (ISIS)

STRATEGIES FOR COMMUNICATING EX SITU CONSERVATION: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES

Chair: Colomba de La Panouse, EAZA Communications Committee

• Transparent Communication to build trust in Zoos, Aquariums and Conservation Practice
  by Brendan Hodgson, Hill+Knowlton Strategies, Belgium
• Values and Frames: How good communication can help put conservation on the map
  by Ralph Underhill, Public Interest Research Centre, UK
• Communications Committee – Who we are and what we aim to do
  by Colomba de La Panouse, Chair, Communications Committee and David Williams-Mitchell, EAZA Communications and Membership Manager

CLOSING PLENARY

• Host handover:
  Budapest Zoo, Hungary hands over to Wroclaw Zoo, Poland
• Chairman’s closing remarks:
  Simon Tonge