25th Anniversary of Pentezug Reserve, 04-05 August

1st day (04 August): conference day

Start: 12.00 arrivals, registration

Location: Hortobagyi Nonprofit Kft, 48. Mata major, Hortobágy 4074

13.30 Opening speach: Gergely Medgyesi (director of Hortobágy National Park Directorate)

Presentations will be 30 minutes long with 15 minutes question section.

1st section: Ungulates in the world

Moderator: Endre Sós (veterinary of Budapest Zoo)

13.45 Sarah King (Colorado Uni): Feral equids: ecology of a native and invasive species

14.30 Daniel Rubenstein (Princeton Uni): African equids

15.15 Francesca Cagnacci (FEM): Global Initiative on Ungulate Migration

16.15-16.45 Coffe break

16.45 Petra Kaczensky (INN): Conservation status and research on Asiatic wild ass – where and why do we need AI?

17.30 Albert Salemgareev (ACBK): Kulan Reintroduction in Kazakhstan

18.30 Buffet at Hortobagy Csarda

2nd day (05 August):

7.00-8.30: breakfast at the Fecskeház Youth Hostel and Öreg Tavi Guesthouse (dependign where your accomodation will be), buffet

Start: 9.00

2nd section: monitoring mammals

Moderator: Zoltan Barta (Debrecen Uni)

9.00 John Linnell (NINA): Restoring large mammals to the European landscape: rewilding or building novel ecosystems?

9.45 Aamir Ahmad (Stuttgart Uni): Arial Motion Capture for Conservation

10.30-11.00 Coffe break

11.00 Miklos Ban (Debrecen Uni): Working with big data: Open Biomaps

11.45 Tanya-Berger Wolf: Animal recognitionn with AI _Wildme

12.30-13.30 Buffet, next to the conference room.

3rd section: Przewalski horses

Moderator: Barbora Dobiasova/Viola Kerekes

13.30 Jaroslav Simek (Prague Zoo): The Przewalski’s horse: The International Studbook and Status in the World

14.15 Katalin Ozogány (Debrecen Uni): Drone observation of freely moving Przewalski’s horses in the Pentezug Reserve

15.00 Peter Csoban (HNPI): Pentezug Reserve: monitoring ecosystem

Afternoon: Visiting the Reserve

Contact: Viola Kerekes / Phone:+36 30 82 75 870 / E-mail: kerekesviola@hnp.hu

You can join to the conference online via the following link: / Here we are goning to add the link  of the conference within the next few days