Browsing by Subject "Veterinary science activities SDG-15"

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  • Experts agree to enhanced international DNA testing of rhinos 
    Van Blerk, Chris; TRAFFIC.org; University of Pretoria. Faculty of Veterinary Science; Heyl, Ansa (2016-07-05)
    The RhODIS® Rhino DNA Scientific workshop, hosted by the University of Pretoria's Veterinary Genetics Laboratory(VGL), concluded on Friday, 24 June 2016, at the Kruger National Park. RhODIS® is a system for profiling and ...
  • Faculty's VGL partners with key international role-players to address wildlife crime at its Rhino DNA Index System Scientific workshop 
    Van Blerk, Chris; University of Pretoria. Faculty of Veterinary Science (2016-06-03)
    Organised by the Veterinary Genetics Laboratory (VGL) to take place from 18 to 24 June, the collaborative action planning workshop will host representatives of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), the Wildlife Trade ...
  • Faculty’s IVF lab advancing towards artificial rhino conservation technologies with San Diego Zoo Global 
    Van Blerk, Chris; University of Pretoria. Faculty of Veterinary Science (2020-05-14)
    An important week-long international visit in February to the Faculty’s In Vitro Fertility Laboratory (IVF) has paved the way for more extensive collaboration with San Diego Zoo Global as part of the International Rhino ...
  • Learning from life in the waters 
    De Bruin, Louise; University of Pretoria. Faculty of Veterinary Science (2015-10-02)
    Imagine an island far removed from any human encroachment that teems with animal life. Such a place exists: it is called Marion Island and forms part of the Prince Edward islands archipelago, situated between South Africa ...
  • Mammal body size and heart energy efficiency : an inverse relationship 
    University of Pretoria. Faculty of Veterinary Science; Mathibela, Xolani (2022-02-24)
    A groundbreaking study undertaken by researchers from the University of Pretoria’s (UP) Faculty of Veterinary Science has revealed that the heart operates with declining energy efficiency as body size increases among ...
  • New study : Welfare and survival of Africa’s arid mammals under threat of climate change 
    Snelling, Ned; Meyer, Leith Carl Rodney; University of Pretoria. Faculty of Veterinary Science; Mthembu, Zama (2021-02-24)
    Dr Ned Snelling, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Anatomy and Physiology and Prof Leith Meyer, Director of the Centre for Veterinary Wildlife Studies, both from the Faculty of Veterinary Science have just published a ...
  • New study by South Africa's Onderstepoort Faculty of Veterinary Science and SAVE on vulture-killing drug, published in Conservation Biology raises serious concerns 
    Van Blerk, Chris; Savings Asia’s Vultures from Extinction; University of Pretoria. Faculty of Veterinary Science (2016)
    Already in 2006 Prof Vinny Naidoo, now the Deputy Dean: Research and Postgraduate Studies of the Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria, South Africa, and his team,started research on protecting vultures ...
  • New study on vulture-killing drug raises serious concerns 
    Van Blerk, Chris; University of Pretoria. Faculty of Veterinary Science; Meyer, Martha (2016)
    For over a decade it has been known that some drugs are toxic to vultures and that they are exposed to these drugs by consuming contaminated carcasses. Yet no safety-testing measures are mandated for such drugs before they ...
  • The pangolin’s plight 
    De Bruin, Louise; University of Pretoria. Faculty of Veterinary Science (2015-10-08)
    Pangolins have existed for more than 40 million years. Covered from head to toe in scales, they are certainly not your typical furry and fluffy mammal. On closer inspection of their precious little faces, one can begin to ...
  • Protecting the Garden of Eden 
    De Bruin, Louise; University of Pretoria. Faculty of Veterinary Science (2015-10-02)
    At first sight, the Central African rainforest is a picturesque paradise, filled with luscious vegetation, amazing animals, and birds of all kinds. Openings in the closed canopy forest (known as ‘bais’ in the local Ba’aka ...
  • Research explores the social life of one of Africa's most iconic animals 
    De Bruin, Louise; University of Pretoria. Faculty of Veterinary Science; Meyer, Martha (2017-09-20)
    Giraffes, like so many species in Africa, are under threat. While scientifically inaccurate cultural beliefs exist which claim that lion bone, rhino horn and pangolin scales have health benefits for humans, certain cultures ...
  • Rhino research that matters at UP 
    Research Matters; University of Pretoria. Faculty of Veterinary Science; Nkonyane, Buyisiwe (2016-07-11)
    At the University of Pretoria's Veterinary Genetics Laboratory (VGL) at Onderstepoort, Dr Cindy Harper and her team have developed a ground-breaking technique to collect and catalogue DNA from rhinos and rhino horns.
  • Saving the life of a long-crested eagle with severe trichomoniasis is no small feat 
    Van Blerk, Chris; University of Pretoria. Faculty of Veterinary Science; Mnguni, Hlengiwe (2022-06-23)
    Recently, a long-crested eagle was found collapsed on the ground and brought to the Bird and Exotic Animal Hospital situated in the Faculty’s Onderstepoort Veterinary Academic Hospital (OVAH). This private clinic provides ...
  • Saving vultures across the world 
    De Bruin, Louise; University of Pretoria. Faculty of Veterinary Science (2015-04-23)
    The sight of more than 200 vultures circling hundreds of metres up in the sky is a picture not many get to experience anymore. But not very long ago vultures flew freely in abundance.
  • Searching for the dirty truth 
    De Bruin, Louise; University of Pretoria. Faculty of Veterinary Science (2015-10-08)
    Wildlife endocrinology is a very important research area as it provides valuable information about the regulating systems of reproductive functions and responses to stressors in animals. An understanding of these systems ...
  • Some vets not only work in the field of wildlife conservation, they also run for conservation 
    Van Blerk, Chris; Leiberich, Marion; University of Pretoria. Faculty of Veterinary Science; Mnguni, Hlengiwe (2022-03-10)
    Dr Marion Leiberich, veterinarian and postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Veterinary Wildlife Research of the Faculty works in the field of wildlife research & conservation and she also loves running. What then is ...
  • To rescue a secretary bird is no administrative task 
    Van Blerk, Chris; Koeppel, Katja Natalie; University of Pretoria. Faculty of Veterinary Science (2023-05-04)
    Recently a juvenile Secretary bird (Sagittarius serpentarius) was found collapsed in the Mabula Private Game Reserve by a ranger. Members of the Mabula Ground Hornbill Project NPO collected it and rushed it through to the ...
  • University of Pretoria vets lead revival of India’s extinct cheetah 
    Tordiffe, Adrian Stephen Wolferstan; University of Pretoria. Faculty of Veterinary Science; Masombuka, Jimmy (2022-07-20)
    University of Pretoria (UP) academics are playing a lead role in driving the reintroduction of wild cheetahs into India as part of efforts to ensure the survival of the species. With the global cheetah population in decline, ...
  • UP collaborates to save the survivors 
    Mbambo, Mikateko; University of Pretoria. Faculty of Veterinary Science; Nkonyane, Buyisiwe (2016-07-15)
    The poaching of rhinos for their horns has resulted in the loss of many animals. It is particularly sad when pregnant rhinos or mothers with calves are poached. When calves under the age of 12 months are orphaned, they are ...
  • UP research waves the red flag against BTB 
    De Bruin, Louise; University of Pretoria. Faculty of Veterinary Science (2015-05-20)
    Prof Anita Michel of the Department of Veterinary Tropical Diseases in the Faculty of Veterinary Science strongly doubts that there is a single buffalo herd in the nearly two million hectares of the Kruger National Park ...