Day 1 – Sunday the 16th of June

Pre Excursion. Field visit to the Raccoon Dog Project

11:00 Departure with common bus from Nordkalotten hotel

18:30 Arrival back at Nordkalotten hotel

Day 2 – Monday the 17th of June

09:00 Arrival and registration

11.30 Lunch

12:30 Opening conference

Per Risberg, Swedish Environmental Protection Agency

12:50 Invasion biology – Where did it come from, where is it going, and why is it so controversial?

Daniel Simberloff, University of Tennessee

Session 1 Research, management and international cooperation

13:50 Toward a coordinated policy to prevent and manage biological invasions – an analysis of the global, European and national contexts

Piero Genovesi, Chair IUCN SSC Invasive Species Specialist Group

 14:40 Coffee

15:10 Managing IAS

Sugoto Roy, National Wildlife Management Centre, Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency, UK

15:45 Adaptive management and international cooperation in IAS management

Fredrik Dahl, Swedish Association for Hunting and Wildlife Management/Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)

16:20 Discussion

16:40 Dinner

Session 2 Practical examples of managing 

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18:00 Management of the invasive raccoon dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides) in the north-European countries. LIFE09/NAT/SE/344

Per-Arne Åhlén, Swedish Association for Hunting and Wildlife Management

18:45 “A needle in a haystack” – the challenges and lessons learnt in eradicating foxes in Tasmania

Craig Elliot, Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment, Tasmania

19:30 Mink control and eradication: Why nothing matters

Jonathan Reynolds, Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust, UK

20:15 Landscape scale grey squirrel control: Lessons from the UK

Craig Shuttleworth, European Squirrel Initiative

 22:00 End of day

 
Day 3 – Tuesday the 18th of June

Session 2 Continued..

08:00 Strategies to improve landscape scale management of mink populations in the west coast of Scotland: lessons learned from the Uist mink eradication 2001–2006

Sugoto Roy, National Wildlife Management Centre, Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency, UK

08:35 Fighting invasive species – habitat recovery in the Atlantic islands

Pedro Geraldes, Portuguese Society for the Study of Birds (SPEA)

09:10 Control of the invasive alien species Lampropeltis getula californiae on the island of Gran Canaria. LIFE10NAT/ES/000565

Ramón Gallo Barneto, GESPLAN

09:45 Life+ Return of rural wetlands

Mikko Alhainen, Finnish Wildlife Agency

Session 3 Speed Presentation

09:45 Speed presentations and Poster session

12:00 Lunch 

Session 4 From international policy to national management

13:00 Aims and objectives of the EU legislation on IAS – the perspective from a Member State viewpoint

Melanie Josefsson, Swedish Environmental Protection Agency

13:30 National policies and goals with IAS management

14:30 Coffee

15:00 Panel discussion

16:30 Closing ceremony

Daniel Ligné, Swedish Association for Hunting and Wildlife Management

18:00 Conference Dinner

Day 4 – Wednesday the 19th of June

Post Excursion. Cultural excursions in the region.