Preliminary Program
Day 1 - September 14th
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9:00am // Participants reception
9:30am // Greetings and Introdution
10:30am // Overview of the amphibians global crisis
11:30am // Introducing Aveiro University and AArk activities
13:00pm // Lunch break
14:30pm //Overview of European amphibians (with special focus on Portugal) and their conservations needs
15:15pm //Ex-situ breeding facilities and their contribution to amphibian conservation
16:15pm // Coffee break
16:40pm // Introduction to group projects
Day 2 - September 15th
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9:30am // Principles of amphibians husbandry
11:00am // The perfect lightning for the aquariums
12:30am // Lunch break
14:00am // Water quality control
15:40am // Lightning and water quality - Pratical exercises
17:30pm // Coffee break
17:45am // Group projects - continuing
Day 3 - September 16th
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9:30am // Nutrition and dietary needs
11:00am // Life food cultures
12:00am // Captive reprodution
13:15am // Lunch break
14:15am // Caring about larval stages
15:30am // Enclosure demonstrations in stations: tank drilling, false bottoms and plumbing, filters
17:15pm // Coffee break
17:30pm // Group projects - continuing
Day 4 - September 17th
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9:30am // Populations management
10:45am // Coffee break
11:00am // Decelopment of regional taxon manegement plans
12:00am // Anatomy, necropsy and veterinary
13:00pm // Lunch break
14:30pm //Anatomy, necropsy and veterinary (cont.)
15:30pm // Review of exercises
17:00pm // Coffee break
17:20pm // Small group works
Day 5 - September 18th
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9:30am // Amphibians diseases and veterinary care
11:00am // Coffee break
11:20am // Biosecurity and quarantine practices
12:30pm // Lunch break
14:00pm // Basic parasitology
15:00pm // Group projects (cont.)
16:00pm // Coffee break
16:20pm // Group projects presentations
18:20pm // Summary, next steps, evaluations