"One World, One Zoo"

First Call for Papers

A joint conference: The 3rd International Congress on ZooKeeping and the 36th National Conference of the American Association of Zoo Keepers will be held in Seattle, WA. USA, in 2009. This will be hosted by The Puget Sound Chapter of AAZK and Woodland Park Zoo.

You are invited to submit abstracts of papers, posters & workshops on any aspects of zoo work. More information and guidelines can be found at the ICZ website: www.iczoo.org

Abstracts for oral and poster presentations should be written in English, no more than 600 words long, and in RTF or MS Word format. The abstract should contain title, authors and affiliations with the presenting author in bold letters. Body text to be Arial, font size 12pt and titles size 14pt. If you want to run a workshop focused on developing zoo keeper skills, please send a short description.

Please mark 'ICZ Abstract' and send to: Paul Howse, ICZ Steering Committee at p.howse@chesterzoo.org

Estimated attendance is 350 - 400 zoo workers from over 30 countries.

Deadline for abstracts is 1st April 2009

Conference dates are September 24th - 29th, 2009