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Collaboration for Sustainability
Feel like you are all alone? Find out how collaborative partnerships provide new opportunities for supporting the sustainability of your sanctuary.
Attracting the Right Placement Partners
The placement process for exotic birds comes with special challenges. Learn from our roundtable experts what it takes to build a network of like-minded, legitimate placement partners and where to find responsible, compassionate avian adopters.
Contingency Planning for Sanctuaries and Rehabilitation Centers
Sanctuaries and rehabilitation centers need to be in continuous operation 24/7, but serious incidents such as natural disasters, fire, pandemics, animal escapes or staff shortages can disrupt these daily operations, and can all cause confusion and disorder if you haven’t prepared for them properly. Contingency planning is a key part of this preparation and is a component of organizational continuity, disaster recovery and risk management. This 45 minute webinar provides participants an overview of contingency planning, explains the contingency planning…
Board of Directors and Promoting Proper Governance
Operating a healthy sanctuary is not just about healthy animals. The Board of Directors holds important responsibilities to each sanctuary to ensure they can sustain and provide lifetime care to sanctuary residents.
Understanding Zoonotic Disease
Zoonotic disease is a disease that can be passed between animals and humans. Zoonotic disease is actually more common than you might think. Scientists estimate that more than 6 in 10 infectious diseases in humans are spread by animals. This webinar covers the basic concepts that will help you understand and prevent the transmission of zoonotic disease in your facility.
Practical Solutions for Bird Care Within the Shelter
Birds are like no other animal in your shelter. Our roundtable expert answers questions about serving the special needs of exotic birds in a shelter setting including how to evaluate and deal with bird behavior and common avian conditions, recognize signs of illness, and respond to medical emergencies.
The Four Pillars of Enrichment
Environmental enrichment enhances the quality of captive animal care by identifying and providing the environmental stimuli necessary for optimal psychological and physiological well-being. Environmental enrichment helps maintain the physical and psychological health of captive animals by encouraging the expression of species-specific behaviors, increasing positive utilization of the environment, preventing or reducing the frequency of abnormal behaviors and increasing the individual’s ability to cope with the challenges of captivity. This webinar covers the basic concepts of environmental enrichment.
Overcoming Obstacles: Starting an Exotic Bird Shelter Program
Caring for exotic birds in a shelter environment is challenging. In fact, many shelters feel they cannot accommodate birds at all. Our roundtable expert answers questions about the issues standing in the way of shelters’ abilities to take in, expand, or improve capacity for exotic birds.
Asocial Media, Errant Emails and Other Non Profit Cyber No No’s
In this webinar, we cover best (and worst) practices for non-profits in the use of social media and email. We will also review tips for setting policies to minimize your organization’s potential exposure for misuse of these on-line resources.