Wild Welfare relaunches online learning programme
The programme was first launched in 2021.
The charity Wild Welfare has relaunched the English-language version of its Wild About Welfare online education programme.
The programme was originally launched in 2021 to provide free training in best practice for wildlife facility staff and help improve welfare standards at wild animal facilities around the world. Since then, it has been downloaded almost 24,000 times across 70 countries.
The relaunched version includes four new pages of learning material and several new interactive quiz activities. Other material has been refreshed and there is new video content and new topics exploring differences between care and welfare.
The programme was produced in collaboration with the Jeanne Marchig International Centre for Animal Welfare Education at the University of Edinburgh. For the new material, Wild Welfare worked with experts from groups such as Asia for Animals and the Global Federation of Animal Sanctuaries.
Sarah Bonser-Blake, animal welfare manager at Wild Welfare, said: “We hope to open up and expand the relevance of our e-learning materials to everyone working within the captive wild animal sector, whether that be in zoos, aquariums, rescue centres or sanctuaries.”
In the last few years, versions of the programme have been launched in Japanese, Vietnamese, Bahasa Indonesia and Thai. The charity plans to update the material in these other languages.
Simon Marsh, director at Wild Welfare, said: “Our eventual goal is to revise the programme materials and re-launch in each of the programmes existing five languages. We will also continue to translate our e-learning materials into new languages, such as Hindi, which is currently in development.”
The programme can be accessed on Wild Welfare's website.
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