2008 - 2009 Annual Report - Zoos South Australia

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CONTENTSYear In ReviewPresident and CEO’s ReportConservation ProgramsConservation ArkVeterinary Conservation ProgramsAssets and InfrastructureConservation EducationThe AnimalsLiving collectionsThreatened SpeciesOperationsCommunications and PartnershipsVisitor ExperiencesHuman ResourcesFinancial ReportFinalsVeterinary Conservation ProgramsIntroductionThe last year in the Animal Health Department has been busyand exciting as we forge forward supporting field conservationprojects and providing clinical services to both Zoos.In addition, we were successful in the tender to provideveterinary services to Cleland Wildlife Park and we alsoprovide services to Nature Education Centre, Seabird rescue,SA Bat rescue, UniSA and Gorge Wildlife Park, support theSA Department of Environment and Heritage (DEH) andAustralian Wildlife Conservancy (AWC) and provide a serviceto the local community by continuing to see wildlife casesbrought into the Zoos by members of the public.It is always a great honour to welcome visitors to the AnimalHealth Department. This year Dr Roy Bengis, Chief StateVeterinarian for Kruger National Park, Sth Africa, visited usand gave a presentation at Adelaide Zoo on disease issuesin the park. Professor Gail Anderson, Head of AdelaideUniversity School of Veterinary Science, Rachel Norris,Senior lecturer and Emma Rowe, Curriculum Advisor alsovisited Zoos SA. Dr Chris Bunn, Wildlife Manager for DAFF inCanberra and Professor Roger Byard, Forensic pathologist forSA and NT, also visited.We could not do our work without the help of so manyfriends, Volunteers and supporters. Special thanks go to BrianRich, Peter McCarthy, Wayne Rohrig and Brian Matthews,all Volunteers, who have continued to provide high qualitydiagnostic support and nutritional advice to the AnimalHealth team and to all the external specialists and serviceproviders who have helped us over the past 12 months.In particular we thank Dr David Clarke, veterinary dentist,Dr Warren Foreman, veterinarian from the Adelaide AnimalHospital, Dr Pam Carroll, diagnostic imager, Dr Andrew Loose,equine specialist, Dr Ian Beveridge from Melbourne UniversityVeterinary School, Prof Tim Mahoney from the University ofQueensland, Dr Penny Tisdall from the Adelaide VeterinarySpecialist and Referral Centre, physicians Drs Randall Faul,Andrew Lee, Jonathan Martin and John Nyirios, John Finnie,Ruth Reuter, Phil Clark and Christine Williams and Gribblesand IDEXX labs.Veterinary Conservation Programs - 1 of 4
CONTENTSYear In ReviewPresident and CEO’s ReportConservation ProgramsConservation ArkVeterinary Conservation ProgramsAssets and InfrastructureConservation EducationThe AnimalsLiving collectionsThreatened SpeciesOperationsCommunications and PartnershipsVisitor ExperiencesHuman ResourcesFinancial ReportFinalsStaffThis year we heard the patter of tiny feet. Donna Hearngave birth to a baby girl last October and in May this year,David McLelland’s wife Jenny also gave birth to a girl.All are doing well.Last year we also welcomed experienced wildlife veterinarynurse Lynette Drabsch who started work at Adelaide Zooto cover for Donna Hearn who is on maternity leave.Lynley Johnson has been accepted on to the external masterscourse in Conservation Medicine based at Murdoch Universityin WA and Ian Smith successfully passed the AustralasianCollege of Veterinary Scientists’ membership examinationin the Medicine of Australian Wildlife. Paula Modra isundertaking a diploma in captive vertebrate management.Ian also received a Winston Churchill Memorial TrustFellowship to study the veterinary facilities at open rangezoos in South Africa, USA, UAE and Europe and to undertakea field anaesthesia course in South Africa. He will take upthe fellowship early in 2010.Staff continue to give presentations, attend conferences andparticipate in professional organisations. Wayne Boardmanco-presented a workshop on Conservation Medicine at theCBSG workshop in Adelaide and was co-author with Drs Clarkand Raidal on a new veterinary textbook entitled the Atlas ofClinical Avian Hematology which was published in May. Staffattended and presented at the Wildlife Disease Association(WDA) conference in Kioloa, NSW, the Wildlife Pathologyconference in Sydney, the Veterinary Nurses Conference inMelbourne and organised a pathology night with staff fromIMVS to review cases.David McLelland is treasurer/secretary for the AustralianCollege of Veterinary Scientists Chapter in Zoo and WildlifeMedicine and Wayne Boardman continues to be councilmember of the WDA, chairman of the ARAZPA Veterinaryspecialist advisory group and member of the DAFF-organisedUniversities Focus Group and Zoo Industries Group onWildlife Health. Sue Bigwood is SA representative for theAustralian Wildlife Health NetworkWayne Boardman, along with Gert Skipper and Jason Hakof,visited Bifengxia Panda base near Ya’an in China, the siteof the Giant Panda breeding complex to discuss planningand management issues prior to the October arrival of theGiant Pandas.With the development of the improved Zoos SA website,veterinary staff are producing a blog on wildlife healthissues and taking part in ZooTubes and the Channel 10program Totally Wild.Veterinary Conservation Programs - 2 of 4
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