Special award for vet working with rescued horses
An Edinburgh vet has received a special award from a horse welfare charity for her pioneering rehabilitation work with rescue cases.
Emma Jones was awarded the International League for the Protection of Horses (ILPH) award of merit citation at the ILPH seminar last week.
Since 1999 Emma has been the ILPH resident vet in equine orthopaedics and ILPH lecturer in the same at the Royal ‘Dick’ School of Veterinary Science at Edinburgh and has worked closely with the ILPH’s Scottish rescue centre, Belwade Park.
This news story was first published in Horse & Hound (25 October, ’07)
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A self-confessed newshound, farmer’s daughter and journalist of many years' experience, Charlotte worked on regional papers before joining H&H in 2007. A regular rider, she visited Ireland in 2010 to investigate the fate of Irish horses through the recession, to much acclaim, and reported from the FEI General Assembly in Rio de Janeiro in 2011. She left Horse & Hound in March 2013.