To register with credit card or PayPal, CLICK HERE To register with check or money order, CLICK HERE NOTE: Once you have registered you will receive a questionnaire from the planning committee allowing you to register for bear species specific workshops. MAKE YOUR HOTEL RESERVATION NOW - CLICK HERE NOTE: All prices on the on-line registration form include tax. OR CALL 1-800-661-9266 Avoid disappointment and make your reservations now! Tell them you are attending the Bear Care Group conference ‘Advancing Bear Care 2011’. We have booked a group of hotels all located in the same block right on the Bow River in Banff. The Banff Park Lodge also owns the Bow View Lodge and the Homestead Inn. Delegates will be able to book a room at one of three price points. You can stay at the Banff Park Lodge [four star hotel] for $130.00 per night - sleeps two - add $15.00 for a third person plus tax, or at the Bow View Lodge [three star hotel] for $110.00 per night – sleeps two – add $15.00 for a third person plus tax, or at the Homestead Inn [two star hotel] for $95.00 per night plus tax– sleeps two. All of the hotels offer clean, fresh rooms with various amenities, and are a two minute walk to dozens of restaurants and pubs at varying price points from McDonalds to international cuisine. Most meals will be offered at the conference but time will be set aside for delegates to experience Banff and the Rocky Mountains. All conference presentations and workshops will be held at the Banff Park Lodge. The arrangement of the hotels is reminiscent of a college campus for convenience. YOUR TRAVEL Delegates should fly to the It is a destination airport from many ABC 2011 - OVERVIEW OUR OUTSTANDING GUEST SPEAKERS! The key note address will be given by the inspirational Dr. Chuck Jonkel. Carol Patterson will deliver an entertaining, motivating presentation. Dr. Chuck Jonkel, Dr. Mike Gibeau, Wayne McCrory, and Charlie Russell will be leading us on instructional hikes into American black bear and grizzly bear habitat teaching us the aspects of how wild bears use their habitat for daily and seasonal living, as well as teaching us through presentations. Dr. Ian Stirling will teach us about wild polar bear habitat use, and update us on the current global warming crisis. Dr. Don Reid will teach us about how wild giant pandas and Asian black bears use their habitat for daily and seasonal living. Siew Te Wong will lecture on how sun bears live in the wild, and the rehabilitation for release of orphaned bears. We are hoping that Robyn Appleton will be able to join us again to teach us about wild spectacled bear behavior if her work on their behavior doesn’t keep her in Peru for the duration. Dr. Heather Bacon will be back to act as our veterinary resource and to lecture on various subjects from natural bear diets to bear denning. Angelika Langen and Charlie Russell will be giving presentations on the rescue, rehabilitation, and successful release of American black bears, Kermode bears, grizzly bears, and Kamchatka brown bears. Gail Hedberg will return to give us a presentation on setting up an effective neonatal care program for ursids. Jason Pratte will deliver, with his usual humor, a presentation on developing a training plan for your bear. Val Hare will be back to teach us about meaningful bear enrichment methods. And Gail Laule will be back to teach us the keys to solving behavior problems. Dr. Michael Gibeau Valerie Hare Gail Hedberg, RVT Dr. Charles Jonkel Angelika Langen Gail Laule Wayne McCrory Wayne, a renowned bear biologist, is one of the original founders of the Valhalla Wilderness Society. Wayne's career as a bear conservationist began in 1983 with the successful campaign to protect the Valhalla Range. He led the charge to save the Khutzeymateen Grizzly Sanctuary in 1993 and the White Grizzly (Goat Range) Provincial Park in 1995. Collectively, these areas represent almost half a million acres of protected habitats for bears in the Interior and Coastal Temperate Rainforests. In 2009, the Government of British Columbia announced the protection of 135,000 ha called the Spirit Bear Protection Area, which Wayne spearheaded to protect the coastal rainforest home of the white spirit bear, grizzly bears and over 60 salmon streams. Carol Patterson Jason Pratte Charles Russell Dr. Donald Reid Dr. Jill Robinson MBE Geeta Seshamani Dr Ian Stirling Siew Te Wong THE AGENDA SIGN UP FOR POST CONFERENCE TRIPS DURING REGISTRATION We are aware that some delegates need to be back to work after the weekend, but others can stay to sightsee. We are thrilled to announce that we will offer a three day trip into the interior of British Columbia to visit the wonderful Northern Lights Wildlife Society near the town of Smithers We will travel there from Calgary by bus or air, stay over night in Smithers, visit the rehabilitation facility for one day, and travel back to Calgary [or delegates can travel onto Vancouver or other destinations] on the third day. The Northern Lights Wildlife Society is distinguished by rehabilitating for release both American black bears and grizzly bears. Travel plans will be made as delegates express interest in the trip during conference registration. The trip is tentatively set for Tuesday, October 11th to Thursday, October 13th 20011. On Monday, October 10th we hope to offer a full day trip to the Calgary Zoo. Arrangements are still TBA. ABC 2011 SILENT AUCTION BEAR BOOK & ART DEN GET CONFERENCE UPDATES: SEE YOU IN BEAR COUNTRY!
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The discounted price of $100.17 has been negotiated with the company. If you plan to visit the Calgary Zoo on Monday, Oct. 10 2011, then hold off booking your round trip bus fare, since your cost will differ as you are being transported from the Banff Park Lodge to the Calgary Zoo. The cost of that fare depends on how many delegates plan to visit the Calgary Zoo. Those plans and costs are TBA.
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Awards will be given to the most outstanding poster presentations in various categories including i/ Greatest Value To Resident Bear(s), ii/ Most Innovative Husbandry Concept, and iii/ Best Overall Visual Presentation. Due to time restraints and the teaching nature of this conference, all oral presentations will be made by invited guest lecturers only.
ABC 2011 will be held in Banff, Canada in bear country in the Canadian Rocky Mountains from Thursday evening, October 6th to Sunday evening October 9th 2011. Bear biologists and naturalists will lead hikes into bear habitat and interpret for delegates how bears use the components of their habitat to express their daily and seasonal routines. We will bring this information back into workshops and apply this knowledge towards improving captive bear husbandry. Also, international bear biologists will assist us in interpreting Asian, European, and South American bear habitats.
We are proud to announce that an extraordinary team of world renowned wild and captive bear experts have volunteered to teach us in presentations, in-field habitat interpretations, and personal assistance during workshops.
Robyn Appelton
Robyn is the founder and research director for Spectacled Bear Conservation - Peru (SBC), a Canadian registered non-profit. Through scientific research, environmental education, and community outreach SBC was established in 2007 to ensure the conservation of the spectacled bear in the equatorial dry forest of northern Peru. Robyn holds a double honors degree in wildlife management and culture geography, and a professional masters degree from Simon Fraser University’s Department of Resource and Environmental Management, specializing in spatial landscape and black bear ecology. Particular questions from Robyn’s current research on spectacled bear ecology and behavior will be presented in her doctoral thesis in applied conservation biology and is the first behavioral study to have been conducted on wild spectacled bears. Robyn has presented these findings around the world at international conferences such as the IBA conference in Monterrey Mexico where she won the award for best presentation. More recent presentations were at the symposium on Andean Bears, Lima, Peru, for the Society for Conservation Biology, Beijing, China, and at Advancing Bear Care 2009 in San Francisco, California.
Dr. Heather Bacon
Heather graduated from the University of Liverpool, UK with a first class Intercalated Honours degree in Veterinary Conservation Medicine and from the University of Bristol, UK with her BVSc (DVM) Veterinary degree. She has obtained her postgraduate Certificate in Zoological Medicine from the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. Heather has worked with a large variety of captive and free ranging wildlife both in the UK and abroad as well as numerous domestic animal species. Heather previously worked in China for 3 1/2 years as the Veterinary Director of the Animals Asia Foundation, a charity committed to improving standards of animal welfare. She is currently working as Veterinary Welfare Education and Outreach Manager in the Jeanne Marchig International Centre for Animal Welfare Education (JMICAWE) at the University of Edinburgh, responsible for developing continuing education programmes for zoo, wildlife and domestic animal veterinarians in Europe and Asia. Heather's main interests are in veterinary education, anaesthesia, infectious disease prevention and captive wildlife management.
Nicola Field
Nicola Field is the Veterinary & Bear Team Manager at Animals Asia Foundation’s Moon Bear Rescue Centre, China, where she has worked for nearly five years. She heads up the veterinary and bear-keeping staff taking care of the bears, dogs, cats and macaque onsite. Her main role is ensuring optimum care of all the animals on site withthe support of a fantastic team, as well as promoting the work of the organization and bear care. She has an MSc in Wildlife Biology & Conservation, as well as Animal Management qualifications. Nicola worked for nearly 10 years as a keeper in the UK, taking care of a variety of species, including North American black bears. She spent two years in education in the UK working as an animal-care assessor. She has also spent time working in Uganda and Vietnam as a researcher on conservation projects and also at the Colobus Trust in Kenya.
Michael ‘Mike’, a renowned bear biologist has spent close to 30 years working in Canadian National Parks, originally as a Park Warden and now as a biologist. He is the Carnivore Specialist for Parks Canada and an Adjunct Professor in the Geography Department at the University of Calgary. Mike has extensive experience in the ecology and management of large carnivores including research on grizzly bears, black bears, coyotes, and wolves, with a decade of research dedicated to investigating the impacts of human activity on grizzly bears. Much of his time is spent coordinating grizzly bear conservation and policy programs in the mountain National Parks. He also advises decision makers on management of large carnivores in the Canadian Rocky Mountains.
Valerie ‘Val’, is recognized internationally as a leading expert in captive wildlife environmental enrichment. Val co-founded The Shape of Enrichment, Inc. in 1991 and has been a principal ever since. In 2000, Valerie presented an enrichment mini-course at the Brazilian Zoo Congress in Belo Horizonte. With the help of its current instructors, that mini-course has evolved into The Shape of Enrichment Workshop and is designed to assist interested animal caretakers create enrichment plans for the animals in their care. Valerie is currently the Chief Financial Officer and Workshop Coordinator for The Shape of Enrichment, Inc. Valerie has worked as a Research Animal Care Supervisor (Massachusetts General Hospital), Zoo Keeper (San Diego Wild Animal Park), Behavioral Research Technician (San Diego Zoo), and Enrichment Consultant. As an enrichment consultant she has worked with giant pandas, polar, brown, spectacled, and sun bears. Valerie holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Biology with a Zoology emphasis from San Diego State University and an Associates Degree as a Veterinary Technician from State University of New York.
Gail, known internationally as a neonatal care expert for exotic animals, has worked successfully with numerous species of fauna as vastly different as polar bears, panda bears, tigers, giraffes and gorillas. Gail was hand-picked from a national pool of candidates to head the critical neonatal care team preparing for the anticipated birth of a Giant Panda cub from six year old Lun-Lun at Zoo Atlanta after having been artificially inseminated. Gail’s most challenging project was successfully hand-rearing an infant polar bear cub. This occurred at a time with limited information and few successful outcomes. She is the author for chapters on hand-rearing both polar bear and exotic felids in a book titled Hand Rearing Wild and Domestic Mammals. This reference book is for those professionals in zoo and wildlife settings seeking hand-rearing protocols. For the last 10 years she has been lead researcher in a ground breaking nutritional study focused on analyzing milk and blood samples from wild caught polar bears, sponsored by Polar Bears International. Her work has just been published and provides the most comprehensive polar bear milk composition results.
Charles ‘Chuck’, a renowned bear biologist will be delivering our key note address. For over 50 years, Chuck has devoted his life to the study and conservation of wild bears and their habitat. A pioneer of bear biology, Chuck was one of the first four researchers to study black bears in the field after the invention of the dart gun, and the Canadian government sought him out to lead their groundbreaking research on wild polar bears. Chuck compiled the first reliable, comprehensive scientific data-base on wild polar bears. He and others set up the Polar Bear Specialist Group in the IUCN [International Union of Conservation of Nature] creating a framework of co-operation among the five countries with polar bear populations. This became a model for all IUCN specialist groups.
Angelika, a wildlife rehabilitator, is internationally known for her expertise on wild bear rehabilitation. In 1989, Angelika and Peter Langen founded the Northern Lights Wildlife Sanctuary in Smithers, British Columbia, Canada. Angelika and Peter are professionally trained zookeepers from Germany. Although all mammals and birds are accepted at Northern Lights, the shelter has become a haven for bears, moose, and deer species. To date, more than 190 black bears, 6 grizzly bears, and 2 Kermode bears have been/are being rehabilitated for successful release back into the wild. Since most shelters are unable to accommodate large mammals due to space and/or housing restrictions, Northern Lights has become the last refuge for bears from all over British Columbia.
Gail, internationally known as a pioneer in training techniques to gain the voluntary cooperation of captive animals for husbandry and veterinary purposes, co-founded Active Environments in 1985. She co-developed the highly effective social management technique called ‘cooperative feeding’ which has since been documented to reduce aggression and increase positive social behavior with numerous species. Also she co-developed the now widely used ‘protected contact’ training method, a positive reinforcement-based system for managing elephants. Gail received her Masters degree in Behavioral Science from California State University, Dominquez Hills. She now works full-time as a consultant helping zoos, biomedical facilities, and sanctuaries develop behavioral management programs to improve captive animal care and well-being. Her years of experience has lead her to develop a highly effective animal behavior problem solving methodology which she now teaches. Gail is also president of Wildlife in Need, a US-based non-profit and sister organization to AE, that is currently engaged in conservation and animal welfare projects in the Philippines.
“If grizzlies escape extinction, it will be in no small part because of Wayne’s efforts. Wayne has fought tenaciously for the protection of bears. He has succeeded beyond anyone else in the province.” David Suzuki.
Carol is internationally known as an ecotourism industry consultant and speaker, who has authored numerous books most notably “The Road Less Travelled: Finding Unconventional Work/Life Solutions”. For her life’s work to marry ecotourism to community responsibility she has won the prestigious Woman of Vision Award from Global Calgary TV, the Calgary Herald, and the YWCA. When asked to encourage this group of bear professionals with one of her inspiring and humorous presentations, Carol quoted her favorite wildlife hero and said, “Scratch the surface of every worthwhile wildlife organization and you’ll find one slightly-crazed zealot who started it (or is keeping it going)”. Hhhmm, seems to fit our delegates!
Jason, ‘Jay’ is internationally known for his training and enrichment work excellence with large carnivores. He has been an animal caregiver for almost two decades, and feels privileged during his tenure to have worked with all eight extant bear species. His primary focus is training, both of the animals in our care, as well as of their caregivers. Behavioral husbandry training of bears and carnivores is his specialty, focusing on complex medical behaviours. The past several years has seen Jay involved with training animal keepers and caregivers around the world in operant conditioning techniques, with one of these adventures showcased on Animal Planet's "Growing Up Panda". Jay is on the AAZK National Behavioural Management Committee and also the AAZK Grants Committee. Jay is the Behavioral Husbandry Manager for Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo. In April he will complete his Masters degree in Zoo and Aquarium Management.
Charles ‘Charlie’, an internationally respected bear behaviorist, is the founding director of the Pacific Rim Grizzly Bear Co-Existence and is on the faculty at The Kerulos Center. Renowned worldwide for his ground-breaking work successfully rehabilitating and releasing orphaned grizzly bear cubs in Kamchatka, Russia, Charlie has spent over 48 years closely observing the behavior of these animals in their natural habitat. A former rancher and guide, Charlie is an author, photographer, and self-taught pilot. Charlie's visionary and courageous work has overthrown countless widely held convictions concerning the nature of grizzly bears.
Donald ‘Don’, a renowned zoologist, studied giant pandas and Asiatic black bears in two Nature Reserves in the eastern Himalaya of Sichuan Province, China from 1985 to 1987, working for the World Wide Fund for Nature and the Wildlife Conservation Society. His research focused on habitat use and selection by giant pandas during a time of relative food shortage following a bamboo flowering and die-off in the Wolong Reserve. Tangjiahe Reserve was the site of his studies on the food habits and use of forest habitats by Asiatic black bears. More recently, Don has returned to these Reserves to view changes in the forests and help instruct a course on carnivore conservation techniques. Don is currently Associate Conservation Zoologist with Wildlife Conservation Society Canada, based in Whitehorse, Yukon. His most recent research examined the arctic tundra food web, including factors affecting population fluctuations in lemmings and their predators (arctic and red foxes, snowy owls), and the ongoing changes being driven by a warming climate.
Jill, an internationally celebrated animal welfare expert, founded the Animals Asia Foundation in 1998 which is devoted to the welfare of wild and urban animals in Asia. Their Moon Bear Rescue campaign is focused on bringing the barbaric practice of bear farming and the bile trade to an end. Currently, AAF has approximately 250 rescued bears in their China and Vietnam sanctuaries. They have signed agreements with the Chinese and Vietnamese governments to rescue 700 additional bears from the torture of bile farms, and bring them to the sanctuary for mental and physical rehabilitation, to live out their lives in peace and safety. The AAF works hard to reduce the demand for bile in Asia by promoting affordable, effective, and cruelty-free alternatives. They have successfully closed down 43 Chinese farms and seen 20 of mainland China’s 31 provinces become proudly bear farm-free. For her valiant and courageous work Jill was honored by the appointment as a Member of the British Empire (MBE).
Kartick Satyanarayan
Kartick started his wildlife conservation work on Tiger Ecology Research while still at college. In 1995, he founded Wildlife SOS with co founder Geeta Seshamani. Wildlife SOS changed Indian history by establishing India ’s largest bear sanctuary and rescuing over 600 Sloth Bears in less than a decade bringing an end to the centuries old barbaric practice of Bear Dancing across India, which had started as an entertainment for Mughal emperors! Wildlife SOS works across India with an intelligence network of informers and with enforcement authorities to tackle wildlife crime. Wildlife SOS also operates four rehabilitation centers for Sloth Bears and two rehab centers for Asiatic Black Bears (Moon Bears). Kartick heads Forestwatch which is the anti poaching division of Wildlife SOS and has his share of dangerous encounters with poachers and wildlife criminals as he works with Government enforcement agencies across India to help control poaching of bear cubs. He is an Honorary Wildlife Warden for the Delhi Government and a member of the IUCN Bear Specialist Group. Kartick is also a member of the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau, the Central Zoo Authority, and the National Tiger Conservation Authority Leopard Conflict committee. He is a TED fellow and an invited speaker at national and international venues including the Royal Geographical Society in London and the Miami, Seattle, Perth, and Singapore zoos.
Geeta’s involvement in wildlife conservation started in 1979 when she started working with the animal rescue organization Friendicoes SECA in New Delhi. Geeta is a Delhi University English Professor by day and her passion is wildlife conservation and research. Geeta has been a member of the Central Zoo Authority and the Animal Welfare Board of India. She has received several life time achievement awards and felicitations. Geeta co founded Wildlife SOS with Kartick Satyanarayan and spearheaded the Kalandar Rehabilitation Project which successfully reduced demand for bear cub poaching through education and alternative livelihoods for the community thus creating a sustainable solution to achieve sloth bear conservation. This helped bring to an end the brutal practice of Bear Dancing in India. Geeta’s area of interest is the fostering of sloth bear and Asiatic black bear cubs, and exploring practical solutions to reintroducing them in the wild.
Ian, renowned world wide for his polar bear expertise, is a Research Scientist Emeritus with Environment Canada and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta. In his 44 years of experience, Ian has done research on polar bears, and arctic and Antarctic seals. Specifically he has studied the ecology, behaviour, and evolution of polar bears, and their biological relationships seals. He has won several awards, including the Northern Science Award, an Officer in the Order of Canada, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He was President of the Society for Marine Mammalogy (1996-1998), and was Chair of the IUCN/SSC Polar Bear Specialist Group (1981-1985). Dr. Stirling was a long-time member of the Canadian Federal-Provincial-Territorial Polar Bear Technical Committee, and of the IUCN/SSC Polar Bear Specialist Group.
Siew Te ‘Wong’, is a Malaysian wildlife biologist renowned internationally for his research on the ecological conservation of sun bears, and his compassion for sun bear welfare. His pioneering studies in sun bear ecology in the Borneo rainforest revealed the elusive life history of the sun bear in the dense jungle. Wong’s research has taken him to the most threatened wildlife habitat on earth, where field work is exceedingly difficult. While rapid habitat destruction from unsustainable logging practices, the conversion of the sun bear’s habitat into palm oil plantations, and uncontrolled poaching activities paint a bleak picture for the future of the sun bear, Wong is determined to help the present situation of sun bears in Southeast Asia. Wong is the CEO of the Bornean Sun Bear Conservation Centre in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo, which he founded in 2008. Wong is also the former co-chair of the Sun Bear Expert Team, under the IUCN/Species Survival Commission’s Bear Specialist Group and a current member of three IUCN/SSC Specialist Groups.
Breakfast is served in our private breakfast room above the hotel lobby. We will meet in the lobby early to board buses to take us out to trail heads each morning [Friday, Saturday, and Sunday] for a guided 1-2 hour hike into bear habitat interpreted by bear biologists, returning to the hotels around noon. Lunch will be served in the conference suite [except for one where delegates can try Banff cuisine]. We will meet at the conference suite for or after lunch for afternoon species-specific workshops for problem-solving sessions lead by some of our captive bear experts. Delegates are asked to bring questions, photos, and other support materials of their current enclosures and husbandry issues to share with the delegates for discussion. Workshops will cater specifically to zoos, sanctuaries, and rehabilitation facilities. Dinner will be served at the conference suite [except for two where delegates can try Banff cuisine]. We will meet after dinner in the conference suite for evening presentations given by species specific bear biologists focusing on how wild bears use their habitat. In the large lobby attached to our conference suite we will offer registration, poster presentations, the silent auction, and the Bear Book and Art Den. Delegates are asked to present their latest work in poster presentations. The Bear Care Group is starting a new tradition of presenting awards recognizing caregivers for their presentations and hard work.
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Eight bear species-specific workshops, a bear rehabilitation workshop, a bear training workshop, and an enrichment problem solving workshop will be held during the conference. Three to four workshops will be held each afternoon. These workshops are forums for problem solving. Delegates are asked to bring materials (photos, drawings etc) illustrating specific bear care problems that he/she wants to resolve. In discussion, workshop participants and guest experts will endeavor to help develop a plan to resolve the problem. It is hoped that delegates are able to carry out the action plan when back at their facility. After registration, delegates will be sent a questionnaire from the planning committee, asking delegates to sign up for workshops. We are excited to announce that the Animals Asia Foundation will moderate the Asian Black Bear Workshop, Polar Bears International will be moderating the Polar Bear Workshop, Siew Te Wong will be moderating the Sun Bear Workshop, and The Shape of Enrichment and Active Environments will moderate the Enrichment Problem Solving Workshop. More moderators will be announced.
You can designate your interest in either or both of our post conference trips on the registration form.
We had our first silent auction at ABC ’09 in San Francisco. It was such a huge hit with everyone, so we decided to do it again. If you have some items for the auction, please contact Lory Palmer our Silent Auction Coordinator at lory.palmer@bearcaregroup.org Lory would love to hear from you. All of the proceeds go directly towards covering conference costs.
Bear people are often creative people. All delegates are invited to bring their photography and/or bear and animal arts & crafts, and books for sale. Organizations are welcome to bring their T shirts, other items for sale and information. All proceeds will stay with the delegate and/or organization. To reserve display space and sign a release form please contact Judy Willard - Bear Book & Art Den Coordinator at jdywillard@yahoo.com
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