Posted on June 05, 2015
Dr Michael Kock of the Department of Production Animal Studies has more than 30 years’ experience as a wildlife vet and is regarded as one of the top forest elephant veterinary experts in the world.
Posted on May 18, 2015
The training of small-scale farmers and livestock handlers in primary animal health care not only uplifts and empowers rural communities, but also contributes to ensuring rural development and food security.
Posted on May 12, 2015
Prof Anita Michel of the Department of Veterinary Tropical Diseases strongly doubts that there is a single buffalo herd in the nearly two million hectares of the Kruger National Park that does not have bovine tuberculosis (BTB).
Posted on May 04, 2015
The Faculty of Veterinary Science’s Mnisi Community Programme looks at conservation through the eyes of the community.
Posted on April 22, 2015
As part of its continuing efforts to ensure that veterinary science students are able to perform clinical procedures, the University of Pretoria (UP) established a skills laboratory at the Faculty of Veterinary Science.
Posted on April 22, 2015
How do you get a crocodile to urinate in a cup?
Posted on April 22, 2015
Debbie Conradie’s dream of working with animals was realised when she received her Diploma in Veterinary Nursing at the University of Pretoria’s Autumn Graduations this year.
Posted on March 13, 2015
A collaborative team effort is needed to counter the increasing danger of bovine tuberculosis (BTB) in wildlife.
Posted on March 02, 2015
The recent UP discovery of a novel compound holds so much promise that some of the world’s leading scientists and pharmaceutical companies want to get involved in its future development.
Posted on February 26, 2015
Prof Vinny Naidoo, director of UP’s Biomedical Research Centre and specialist veterinary pharmacologist with the South African Veterinary Council, has led the way to find suitable NSAID alternatives that would be safe for vultures.
Posted on February 12, 2015
The Faculty of Veterinary Science is preparing to introduce an exciting, first-of-its-kind international collaborative master’s programme in tropical health in January 2016.
Posted on January 30, 2015
The Research Chair in Poultry Health and Production, which was established jointly by the Southern African Poultry Association (SAPA) and the University of Pretoria (UP) in 2012, is taking the lead in research on poultry diseases.
Posted on December 02, 2014
The Department of Paraclinical Sciences at the University of Pretoria (UP), through CE@UP and in collaboration with SANParks’ Veterinary Wildlife Services, recently hosted the first Advanced Course in Wildlife Chemical Immobilisation and Field Practice in the Kruger National Park.
Posted on November 14, 2014
Dr Leith Meyer, Veterinary Sciences Pharmacology researcher at the University of Pretoria, is committed to finding solutions to improve the well-being of wild animals.
Posted on October 23, 2014
Prof Darryn Knobel is providing great insight into the control and foreseeable elimination of rabies.
Posted on October 01, 2014
Cricket icon and Castle join UP to save rhinos
Posted on October 01, 2014
The Veterinary Genetics Laboratory leads the way in DNA profiling
Posted on October 01, 2014
The Faculty of Veterinary Science’s Prof Darryn Knobel is in pursuit of eliminating dog rabies across Africa through a novel approach to rabies research.
Posted on February 25, 2014
On 18 February 2014 the first veterinary online open educational resources platform in Africa
Posted on October 25, 2013
Alexis, a three year old Bull Terrier owned by Mr Colin Bohler, recently became the first bitch in the Onderstepoort Veterinary Academic Hospital (OVAH) of the Faculty of Veterinary Science to be artificially inseminated with frozen-thawed semen deposited
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