| Thursday 15th December Al Ain Rotana Hotel |
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Welcome ceremony |
HE Mohammed Al Bowardi |
| 10:00 |
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Hall A |
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Raptor Health, First Aid and Re-habilitation |
| 10:00 |
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Novel Therapeutic Agents and Treatment Modalities for Falcons |
Dirk Verwoerd & Tom Bailey |
| 10:20 |
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What Falconers Need to Know About the Pre-purchase Veterinary Examination of Falcons |
Dr Tom Bailey |
| 10:40 |
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Traditional Arabian Falcon Remedies, History and Significance |
Dr Faris Al-Timimi |
| 11:00 |
Morning tea break |
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| 11:30 |
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Veterinarian´s Role in Raptor Breeding Programmes: It´s Worth It |
Marino García |
| 11:55 |
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Risk and Prevention of Travel-related Disease in Falconry Birds |
Dr Pat Redig |
| 12:20 |
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The Green Balkans Raptor Rehabilitation Centre |
Ivaylo Klisurov |
| 12:45 |
Lunch |
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| 14:00 |
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Vulture Crisis in India |
Dr Vibhu Prakash |
| 14:25 |
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Update on the Treatment of Aspergillosis in Falcons |
Dr Antonio Di Somma |
| 14:50 |
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Rehabilitating Raptors in the UAE - Experience at Sharjah Wildlife Centre |
Dr An Pas |
| 15:15 |
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Thoughts on the Rehabilitation and Release of Peregrine Falcons in the UK |
Dr Gordon Mellor |
| 15:40 |
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Practical workshop |
First Aid for Falconers' Birds (to be held at Conference Venue) |
Dr Margit Muller |
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Hall B |
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Falconry Heritage |
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Chairman Kent Carnie |
| 10:00 |
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Preserving Our Intangible Heritage; Lessons Learned from a Quarter Century of American Efforts |
Kent Carnie |
| 10:20 |
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Creation of the Middle East Falconry Archive, a Unique Documentary Heritage |
Dr Patrick Paillat |
| 10:40 |
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The Falconry Heritage Trust |
Jevgeni Shergalin |
| 11:00 |
Morning tea break |
| 11:30 |
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Trapping and trading in 17th century |
Jacques van Gerven |
| 11:55 |
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Research on the books of the Japanese falconry from the 13th to the 16th century |
Dr Yasuko Nihonmatsu |
| 12:20 |
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Falconry in Italy throughout the centuries |
Patrizia Cimberio |
| 12:45 |
Lunch |
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Falconry and Pest Control |
| 14:00 |
Chairman's introduction |
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Dr Richard Seaton |
| 14:25 |
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Pest control in Chile |
Christian Gonzalez |
| 14:50 |
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Pest control at airfields in Brasil |
Jorge Sales Lisboa |
| 15:15 |
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Using falcons for pest control in New Zealand's vineyards: a unique option of the conservation of a species |
Dr Richard Seaton |
| 15:40 |
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Hall C |
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UNESCO Action Plans |
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Chairman |
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Dr Awadh Ali Saleh |
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Morning tea break |
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Lunch |
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| Friday 16th December Al Ain Rotana Hotel |
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Hall A |
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Raptor Conservation Projects by Falconers |
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| 09:30 |
Chairman's introduction |
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Dr Adrian Lombard |
| 09:40 |
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Contributions of the Peregrine Fund to raptor conservation, 1970 to 2012 |
Prof Tom Cade |
| 10:05 |
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Four decades of studies on migrating Arctic Peregrines |
Mike Yates |
| 10:30 |
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Satellite tracking migration of Russian Peregrines |
Dr Aleksandr Sokolov |
| 10:55 |
Morning tea break |
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| 11:30 |
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Falconers efforts to restore tree nesting Peregrine populations in Poland and Germany |
Janusz Sielicki |
| 11:55 |
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Conservation of Saker Falcon in Bulgaria |
Dimitar Ragyov |
| 12:20 |
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Saker Falcon Electrocutions in the Mongolian Steppe |
Rick Harness |
| 12:45 |
Lunch |
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The conservation activities of falconers in South Africa |
Dr Adrian Lombard |
| 14:25 |
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Falcon whole genome sequencing |
Prof Mike Bruford |
| 14:50 |
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UNEP/CMS Birds of Prey MoU |
Nick P. Williams |
| 15:15 |
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Sustainable use and raptor conservation |
Prof Robert Kenward |
| 15.40 |
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Hall B |
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Teaching the Falconer |
| 09:30 |
Chairman's introduction |
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Dr Harald Barsch |
| 09:40 |
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Falconers education in Germany |
Karl-Heinz Gersmann |
| 10:05 |
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Mentoring in Falconry and the Role of a Grading System in South Africa |
Dr Robbie Robinson |
| 10:30 |
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Falconry Skills in the UK: Standards & Assessment |
Ms Lisa Jarvis |
| 10:55 |
Morning tea break |
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TBC |
Berlant Nazeeh Kabeel |
| 11:55 |
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Learning Falconry in Qatar |
Talib A. Al-Marri |
| 12:20 |
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Learning Falconry in the Czech Republic |
Milan Straka |
| 12:45 |
Lunch |
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| 14:00 |
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Training and conditioning captive-raised falcons for Arab Falconry |
Dr Ken Riddle |
| 14:25 |
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Falconry in Latin America |
Fernando Feas |
| 14:50 |
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Passing on a passion for the renaissance of the falconry in France |
Dana and Arthur Freudiger |
| 15:15 |
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A display of tuition materials available for Falconers |
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Hall C |
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Legal Controls on Falconry - Trade, Possession and Use. |
| 09:30 |
Chairman's introduction |
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Dr Andrew Dixon |
| 09:40 |
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Status and trends in international trade of falcon species |
Adrian Reuter |
| 10:05 |
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Legal controls and the trade of captive-bred falcons for falconry |
Mark Ormiston |
| 10:30 |
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The Turkish experience of enforcing controls on illegal trappers |
Luke Smith |
| 10:55 |
Morning tea break |
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| 11:30 |
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Illegal trade and the declining Saker Falcon population in Kazakhstan |
Dr Anatoliy Levin |
| 11:55 |
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Developing a sustainable trade of Mongolian Saker Falcons |
Choikhand Janchivlamdan |
| 12:20 |
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Sustainable use of Saker Falcons in Mongolia |
Nyambayar Batbayar |
| 12:45 |
Lunch |
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The history and evolution of wildlife laws and regulations in the United States, as it applies to falconry |
Bill Johnston |
| 14:25 |
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Banned to permitted: New Zealand’s 30 year battle to legalize falconry |
Noel Hyde |
| 14:50 |
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Do Falco hybrids in falconry pose an ‘unacceptably high risk of unnatural genetic introgression to native wild falcon populations’? |
Prof Matthew Gage |
| 15:15 |
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General discussion |
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| 15.40 |
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| Saturday 17th December Al Ain Rotana Hotel |
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Hall A |
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Management of Quarry and Sustainable Hunting |
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Chairman |
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Ralph Rogers |
| 09:30 |
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Overview of the International Fund for Houbara Conservation |
Mohammed Saleh Al-Baidhani |
| 09:40 |
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Houbara management in North Africa |
Dr Yves Hingrat |
| 10:05 |
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Houbara management in Abu Dhabi |
Mark Lawrence |
| 10:30 |
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Houbara research in Central Asia |
Jacky Judas |
| 10:55 |
Morning tea break |
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Free Flight, Limited Space |
Tula Stapert |
| 11:55 |
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Hawking culture of Pakistan |
Kamran Khan Yousafzai |
| 12:20 |
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North American Grouse, identification, status, and conservation roles of falconers |
Ralph Rogers |
| 12:45 |
Lunch |
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Falconry in the Middle East: is falconers’ ecological knowledge matching scientific findings? |
Yassir Hamdan Al Kharusi and Hamda Hamad Al Ameri |
| 14:25 |
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Conservation of houbara bustards using interspecific chimeras. |
Joerg Kinne et al |
| 14:50 |
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Stone curlew management |
Kevin Hyland |
| 15:15 |
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Regeneration of the Red Grouse on the North Yorkshire moors, Great Britain |
Steve Smith and Julian Hepburn |
| 15.40 |
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Hall B |
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Managing the Public Image of Falconry |
| 09:30 |
Chairman's introduction |
To see ourselves as others see us. |
Debbie Stewart |
| 09:40 |
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Changing the public views of falconry |
Dr Helen MacDonald |
| 10:05 |
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Lessons learned from other fieldsports |
Jim Barrington |
| 10:30 |
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Animal assisted therapy with birds of prey |
Klaudia Brommund |
| 10:55 |
Morning tea break |
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| 11:30 |
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Influencing Falconry's public image in North America |
Larry Dickerson |
| 11:55 |
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Women in Falconry |
Diana Durman-Walters |
| 12:20 |
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Heritage as a Falconry image-enhancer - the UNESCO experience |
Dr Bohumil Straka |
| 12:45 |
Lunch |
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| 14:00 |
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Rehabilitation, Education and Outreach |
Hank Chalmers |
| 14:25 |
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Working with Politicians |
Tage Jessen |
| 14:50 |
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Strategies for the Management of the Public Image of Falconry |
Dr. Javier Ceballos |
| 15:15 |
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General discussion |
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| 15.40 |
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Hall C |
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Communication between Falconers |
| 09:30 |
Chairman's introduction |
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Christian Habich |
| 09:40 |
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An Audit of World Falconry |
Jevgeni Shergalin |
| 10:05 |
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World of Falconry |
Bob Dalton |
| 10:30 |
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The Falconers and Raptor Conservation Magazine |
Peter Eldrett |
| 10:55 |
Morning tea break |
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| 11:30 |
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What Ever Happened to the Letters Page? |
Terry Anthony |
| 11:55 |
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The Newsletter of the Middle East Falcon Research Group “Falco” |
Dr Andrew Dixon |
| 12:20 |
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How? What? Who? When? Why? - Communictions, Falconers and IAF |
Gary Timbrell |
| 12:45 |
Lunch |
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| 14:00 |
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The Application of Falconry Teaching via Web-Net |
Lin Chien-Hsiang |
| 14:25 |
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Design of Educational Materials: a Spanish Falconry Manual |
Jorge Hernández Justribó |
| 14:50 |
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What is There to Talk About? A Subject Breakdown. |
Kris Ulens |
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Creating a World Internet Forum to Support Falconry and Falconers |
Christian Habich |
| 15.40 |
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