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Date:    Wed, 16 Dec 1998 17:35:10 +0000
From:    "C.Ross" 
Subject: European Hedgehog Research Group Conference

European Hedgehog Research Group (EHRG)
3rd International Hedgehog Workshop 29-30 January 1999
Roehampton Institute London
Whitelands College,West Hill, London, SW15 3SN.

Provisional Schedule

Friday 29th January
0930    Opening address: Nigel Reeve
0940    Marcel Huijser (Netherlands) Location of hedgehog traffic
victims in relation to landscape features.
1010    Goergen Goeransson (Sweden)    Highway construction in the range of a
local hedgehog population
1040     Coffee
1100    Eduardas Mickeviciu s(Lithuania)    Hedgehogs on the Lithuanian
roads
 1130    Fabio Bontadina (Switzerland) Urban hedgehogs in Zuerich,
Switzerland: spatial distribution & habitat use.
1200 Gundega Kampe (Latvia) Home range & habitat utilization of the
Eastern european hedgehog.
1230    Lunch  & poster session
1400    Salvatore Giannetto & Giovanni Poglayen (Sicily, Italy)
Helminths of the hedgehog (E. europaeus) in three Italian areas
1430    Fiammetta Santucci (UK & Italy)    DNA footprints of postglacial
colonisationroutes of hedgehogs.
1500     Tea & poster session
1530    PatMorris (UK)    Report on progress with the European hedgehog
breeding survey.
1600    Matti Masing (Estonia) A review of hedgehog
studies in Estonia 1988-1998
1630    Digger Jackson (UK) Prickly problems on the Machair: hedgehogs &
their impact on ground nesting birds in the Herbrides.

Saturday 30th January
0930    Pat Morris (UK)    Introduction: Studies of released hedgehogs. What
next?
1010    Ray Jackson (UK) Hedgehog rehabilitation at Lower Moss Wood
Educational Nature Reserve, Cheshire.
1040     Coffee
1100    Hanne Mar iSeether (Norway) Survival & early dispersal of
juvenile hedgehogs.
1130    Marcel Huijser (Netherlands)Age & sex of,traffic victims.
1200    Les Stocker (UK) Incidents adversely affecting the hedgehog (E.
europaeus) & their rescue & rehabilitation in the U.K.
1230    Lunch  & poster session
1400    Annette Reiso-Carlson (Germany)    Therapy of
hedgehogs with injuries caused by fire.
1430    Lisa Frost (UK)     Hand rearing orphaned or deserted neonate &
young hedgehogs (E.europaeus)
1500     Tea & poster session
1530    Beate Johansen (Norway) Salmonellae in hedgehogs
1600    Dino Scaravelli   (Italy) Status & distribution of E.e. italicus
& E. concolor in Italy
1630    Janet Peto (UK)    Health & safety for  carers of hedgehogs

Cost: stlg25 per day, stlg40 for both days. Half-price to students in
full-time education or the unemployed. The price includes morning &
afternoon tea/coffee,biscuits, & a 2-course lunch.

Contact: Obtain your registration form or further details from:
 Dr. Nigel Reeve, School of Life Sciences, Roehampton Institute
 London, West Hill, London SW15 3SN. Tel. +44 (0)181 392 3528, Fax.
 +44 (0)181 392 3527, email n.reeve@roehampton.ac.uk

Venue: Roehampton Institute London (Whitelands College),West Hill,
London, SW15 3SN. Entrance to college from Sutherland Grove.  Nearest
underground stations are East Putney & Southfields (District Line).
Dr. Nigel J. Reeve
School of Life Sciences
Roehampton Institute London
London, SW15 3SN
Tel. +44 (0)181 392 3528 (direct)
     +44 (0)181 392 3524 (secretary)
     +44 (0)181 392 3527 (fax)

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