Whipsnade awarded for medicine use
WHIPSNADE Zoo has won a BIAZA Award for significant advances in zoo and wildlife medicine.
BIAZA, British and Irish Association of Zoos and Aquariums, is a conservation education and scientific wildlife charity, which acts as the principal professional zoo body representing the responsible zoo and aquarium community in the UK.
The BIAZA awards demonstrate an extraordinary year of achievements and ingenious solutions made by zoos and aquariums across the UK and Ireland.
Whipsnade was praised for its use of detomidine and butorphanol for standing sedation in a wide range of captive hoofstock species.