Animal self-medication
This site provides an overview of observations, rumours, documents
and experiments around animal self-medication, including dirt, insects,
plants and mechanical scours. The site is maintained by Cindy Engel, a
lecturer in environmental sciences at Britain's Open University.
http://www.animalselfmedication.com/ (as of 18 November
2003 this link is temporarily out of order because the site has been
hacked)
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ANTHRA
ANTHRA is an registered Indian NGO, founded by women veterinary
scientists 1992. It focuses primarily on issues of livestock development,
in the wider context of sustainable natural resource use.
http://www.anthra.org
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Assisi
Acupuncture
This website is
operated by Ann-si Li, a veterinarian who combines allopathy with
alternative veterinary medicine in her small-animal practice. The site
gives information about veterinary acupuncture and traditional Chinese
medicine.
www.assisiacupunctureltd.com
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CAPE
CAPE is a unit of the Pan African Programme for the Control of Epizootics
(PACE), within the Organization of African Unity/Interafrican Bureau for
Animal Resources (OAU/IBAR) and stands for ‘Community-based Animal Health
and Participatory Epidemiology Unit’. The site makes CAPE's research and
policy materials available to a global audience. It also informs on
publications, conferences and meetings, and other things. The site has been
developed by Eldis and its Pastoralism
Resource Centre (http://www.eldis.ids.ac.uk/pastoralism/index.htm)
in close cooperation with CAPE.
http://www.cape-ibar.org/
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Livestock and Rangeland Knowledgebase
The Livestock and Rangeland Knowledgebase (LRKB) of IFAD is an
electronic platform for learning and sharing the experience gained from
investing in rural (livestock) development for poverty reduction. It provides
appropriate interactive knowledge tools to policy makers, project design and project management staff. Currently there are 38 livestock projects
analysed in detail in LRKB, including projects where animal health was a
major component.
http://www.ifad.org/lrkm/index.htm
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League for Pastoral Peoples
The League for
Pastoral Peoples (LPP) is an advocacy and support NGO for pastoralists who
depend on common-property resources. Together with its Indian partner
organisation Lokhit Pashu-Palak Sansthan, LPP runs a camel project in
Rajasthan that integrates both Western and local methods of animal
healthcare. LPP initiated the LIFE network (see below).
www.pastoralpeoples.org
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LIFE
LIFE is a network
that seeks to conserve domestic animal diversity by building on farmers'
and pastoralists' indigenous knowledge and institutions within the context
of local and regional development. Their site provides information on the
network’s aims and activities.
www.lifeinitiative.net/
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NetVet
Ken Boschert, a veterinarian at
Washington University's Division of Comparative Medicine, operates this
website. It focuses on veterinary medicine (alternative as well as
conventional) and related fields. The site features comprehensive lists of
related organisations, mailing lists and websites, plus a "World Wide
Web Virtual Library of Veterinary Medicine."
http://netvet.wustl.edu/
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Rural Poultry
The site is set up by the Australian Centre for International
Agricultural Research (ACIAR, www.aciar.gov.au) and the University of
Queensland (www.uq.edu.au). It
provides some basic information on small flocks of scavenging local
chickens kept by people in developing countries for researchers,
non-government organisations, educators, extensionists and farmers.
http://www.vsap.uq.edu.au/ruralpoultry
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Vetaid
Vetaid is a British
NGO and an affiliate of Vétérianires Sans Frontières. It works with
local organisations in under-privileged countries to prevent suffering and
hunger through improved animal healthcare and stockraising. Their site
informs on Vetaid, its projects and publications, including reports, EVM-oriented
theses from the University of Edinburgh's Centre for Tropical Veterinary
Medicine, and other documents on EVM.
www.vetaid.org
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Vetwork
Vetwork is a
British NGO and promotes participatory livestock development. Their site
presents information, an electronic magazine and contact addresses
relating to community-based animal healthcare. It also contains the
proceedings of the international conference on ethnoveterinary medicine
held in Pune, India, in November 1997.
www.vetwork.org.uk
