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Submit an abstract for the 31st Vertebrate Pest Conference--Deadline Nov 30th

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Symposium: New Frontiers in Managing Wild Pigs

This symposium brings together the latest science in the war on wild pigs, while also contextualizing emerging issues and threats to natural resources, agriculture, and animal and human health and safety posed by this invasive species

Symposium: Predator Management

This special symposium will welcome a broad range of research focuses, including aspects of predator biology that have implications for management of predators or ungulate populations, and lethal and nonlethal management in rural, urban, or suburban settings, among other topics.

Symposium: Management of Commensal Rodents

This symposium will welcome all aspects of commensal rodent management in multiple environments.

Symposium: Pest and Beneficial Bird Management

In this symposium we will discuss emerging issues and management of beneficial and pest birds, which is often complex given the diversity among avian taxa, laws and regulations, and the human dimensions associated with managing birds.

Please see below for the call for papers for the 31st VPC.

Call for papers

Prior Conference Presentations

Please follow this link to learn more about how you can view recordings of presentations from the 30th Vertebrate Pest Conference.