For the last 20 years, coordinator of the Canadian Trap Research and Development Program (Fur Institute of Canada) and the implementation in Canada of the Agreement on International Humane trapping Standards.
Between 1978 and 2013, coordinator of the management and trapping of wild furbearers for the Canadian Federal and Québec governments.
Pierre Canac-Marquis
Elisa Cacharro has 18 years of experience as a Forest Engineering Technician, by the University of Valladolid, in the management of wild animals populations.
Dedicated from the beginning of her professional career to participation in the management of hunting areas, at where she is distinguished by her experience with large ungulates (such as deer and goats), by working with populations of protected species (black vulture, imperial eagle, wolf Iberian, among others) and by implementing animal conservation measures in the natural environment in several wild animal recovery centers.
With the arrival of Spanish legislation on the control of invasive alien species, her wildlife knowledge were built on the basis of coordination, organization and management of several professional teams dedicated to controlling populations of invasive alien species with various capture techniques.
Great personal prominence in the areas of measures of population control, reinforcement of measures, supplementary feeding, control of predators, detection of animal diseases and zoonoses.
Elisa Cacharro
Francisco García
Specialist in wildlife management.
Area of conservation actions.
Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Food and Environment. Government of Spain.
Coordinator of the fieldwork for the homologation of methods of capture of game predators in Spain.
Coordinator of the field work in several studies with capture of predators, for the conservation of different endangered species in Spain.
Specialist in the capture and management of endangered species in Spain and other countries.
Specialist in catching predators in Spain and other countries.
Corredactor of the Technical Guidelines for the homologation of methods of capture of game predators and accreditation of users in Spain.
Specialist in capture of predatory species and coordinator of the field work of the study of the use of approved methods for the capture of predators in areas with stable presence of Iberian Lynx.
Monitor for the management of methods of capture of predatory species in Spain and other countries.
Specialist in the capture, marking and tracking of large carnivores.
Main species with which he has worked.
Iberian lynx, iberian wolf, brown bear, mountain cat, all medium-sized predatory species, pyrenean capercaillie, all species of ungulates of Spain, different species of Saharan antelopes, elephant, hippopotamus, manatee, asian jackal, african jackal , raccoon dog, invasive alien species in Europe, etc.
Holds a PhD in Biology. He has been studying wolves since the end of the 80s and has followed the species, mainly in Asturias, Galicia, Castilla y Leon, Picos de Europa National Park, and has participated in several studies in Extremadura and Castile-La Mancha.
Since the last years he has been developing a line of research on wolves in very humanized environments.
Cooperates in several lines of work designed to improve and optimize methodologies for monitoring wolves.
Man-wolf coexistence is one of the key issues in their lines of work.
He has published more than 50 scientific articles and made numerous technical advices for different administrations.
Luis Llaneza
Ing. Dolf Moerkens, Policy Advisor, Dutch Water Authorities
Dutch Water Authorities (DWA) is the Association of Regional Water Authorities.
The main task of DWA is lobbying for the tasks and responsibilities of the Regional Water Authorities at a national and European level.
At the national level, I am responsible for coordinating the muskrat and coypu control and contact person for the implementation of the EU regulation Invasive alien species at the Regional Water Authorities.
Dolf Moerkens
Vera Ramalho completed the degree in Veterinary Medicine from the Veterinary Medicine School in Lisbon, from the Technical University of Lisbon in 1986. In 2012, she completed her Master's Degree in Food Science at Universidade Aberta.
She began working at a pet hospital clinic followed by a clinical practice with production animals.
Since December 1995, she has been the Veterinary of Gondomar municipality, where, as part of her activities, she manages the Animal Shelter Center.
Vera Ramalho
ATE President, Asociación de Tramperos de España (Spanish Trappers Association)
Member of the council adviser of the Ministerio de Agricultura, Alimentación y Medio Ambiente (Agriculture, Food and Environment Ministry).
Technical specialist in wild animals control (Tragsatec) FTA member.
Instructor/Examiner in Trapping Training in Spain and other countries.
International Technical responsible for WCS
Field capture and capture methods homologation supervisor in different projects.
Several articles published in trapping journals: Jara y Sedal , Trofeo y caza , Trapper´s Post.
Ideologist of Itrappingreport
Main species with which he has worked: wolf, american mink, european mink, chacal, raccoon dog, raccoon, beaver, european exotic species, bear an meso predators in general.
Albert Roura
III WORLD TRAPPING CONFERENCE
4 - 5 MARCH | 2017
III CONFERÊNCIA MUNDIAL DE CAPTURA
Currently, Timothy Julien is the owner/operator of A&T Wildlife Management Services (since 1993), where he works from the control of wildlife indigenous to the Midwest including coyote, geese and bird control in the Indianapolis metro area. Since 1978, he does fur harvesting in several states, such as Maine, New Mexico, Mississippi, Missouri, Illinois and Indiana. Owner of PROLINE lures since 1998, providing damage control and fur harvesting Lures. (PROLINE is the proud Producer of Vanish, Collarum Canine Bait (CCB), Roadrunner and many others; most PROLINE Products are distributed by Wildlife Control Supplies.) At 1997, he was the president of Indiana Animal Damage Control Association and, in 1999, he was the president of National Wildlife Control Operators Association, until 2009. He was attended (1996) and presently instructs at Fur Takers of America Trappers College.
In the period of 2001-2006, he created and operated the National Goose Damage Management training academy.
Timothy Julien
Ricardo Lobo was graduated in Veterinary Medicine at the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro.
He has worked as a clinical of pet animals and livestock animals in Limiavet, Ponte de Lima, from 2001 to 2007, and as a veterinarian coordinator of OPP (Organization of Livestock Producers) from 2009 to 2015.
He currently works as a municipal veterinarian at Vila Nova de Cerveira and as a veterinarian responsible for the Aquamuseu zoo in the Minho River.
Along with these positions, he is also clinical director of the veterinary clinic Dr. Ricardo Lobo, in Vila Nova de Cerveira, since 2008.
Ricardo Lobo
Dr. Rudolf W. Mueller graduated in Veterinary Medicine 1969 from the University of Zürich. He wrote his doctoral thesis in 1974 after postgraduate studies at the University of Bern. From 1974 to 1976 he worked as Assistant Professor in veterinary pathology at the University of Bern, Switzerland.
From 1976 to 1978 he was assistant professor at the University of Guelph for Wildlife Fish and Poultry diseases.
From 1978-1982 he was a fellow of the Canadian Medical research council for research in toxicologic pathology in Saskatoon.
1984 to present he has been a member of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine at University of Ottawa.
From 1994 – 1997 he was representative of the Canadian Veterinary Medical Association on Animal Welfare Committee on the International Standards, Organisation Committee on the Development of Humane Traps; chaired by Environment Canada, the Fur Institute of Canada, and External Affairs
Since 1994 he has acted as Consultant Pathologist to the Fur Institute of Canada (FIC) on the Certification of traps in the Framework of establishing International Standards and Agreements between Canada, EU, US, Russia. Member of the Trap Research Committee of the FIC.
He has more than 70 scientific publications, more than 60 poster presentations or conference talks and several projects.
Ruedi Muller
Nuno Santos obtained the Degree in Veterinary Medicine from the Technical University of Lisbon in 1997.
He has a master in Veterinary Public Health from the Technical University of Lisbon and a PhD in Health Sciences from the Institute of Life Sciences and Health Sciences, University of Minho, both on the epidemiology of tuberculosis in wild ungulates.
He is graduated from the European College of Zoological Medicine, Wildlife Population Health.
He has been working in conservation medicine since 1997, in particular in the wildlife recovery area, studies on animal health, capture and necropsy of wildlife animals.
He has published 18 scientific papers in international journals in the field of conservation medicine and he has presented more than 40 in national and international congresses.
Author of book chapters on scavenging birds conservation, tuberculosis epidemiology and molecular diagnosis of infectious diseases in wildlife.
He is currently a researcher at the Center for Research on Biodiversity and Genetic Resources (CIBIO) at the University of Porto.
His interests relate to zoological medicine and the physiology of conservation in wildlife.
Nuno Santos
John Olson, wildlife biologist, recently retired after 42 years with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, was the Furbearer Ecologist for Wisconsin from 1994 to 2016. Past chair of the Technical Working Group of the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, John coordinated Best Management Practices humane trap research in Wisconsin from 1998 to 2016, and led the development of the modern cable restraint in WI and the U.S. He has been a member of the U.S. delegation to the Joint Management Committee for the AIHTS. John also developed a highly successful trapper education program in WI and created a week-long Fur School workshop now being offered to biologists, conservation officers, and administrators across the U.S.
John Olson
Maria Cristina Tavares Briosa, is graduated in Veterinary Medicine from the Escola Superior de Medicina veterinária da Universidade Técnica de Lisboa [Veterinary Medicine High School of the Technical University of Lisbon].
She began her professional activity in the “Junta Nacional dos Produtos Pecuários” [National Board of Livestock Products], where she worked in the poultry sector, later moved to IROMA and later to the Agro-Food Policy Planning Office for the pig farming sector.
Since 1997 she has been working in the area of Animal Welfare, with special emphasis on the protection of pets.
It has developed a number of actions aimed at raising awareness among children and the public in general, for responsible pet ownership.
She collaborates as a trainer in several training actions, aimed at municipal veterinarians, GNR / SEPNA [Environmental police force] and PSP [Police force], in particular on the subject of companion animals capture and the detention of dangerous and potentially dangerous animals.
