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Published in: EcoHealth 1/2017

01-03-2017 | Editorial

Health and Disease in Translocated Wild Animals

Authors: Ian Carter, Anthony W. Sainsbury, Katherine Walsh, Hartley Matthew, Jon Curson, John G. Ewen

Published in: EcoHealth | Special Issue 1/2017

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Why have species conservation translocations become so important as a conservation tool? In short, because historic and ongoing losses and degradation have severely reduced our wildlife habitats. Increasingly, species struggle to persist in the wild and fragmentation of remaining habitat makes moving across hostile landscapes between suitable sites difficult. Direct human intervention is essential to help many threatened species survive and, in some cases, to restore those that have already been lost. …
Literature
International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2013) IUCN Guidelines on Reintroduction and other Conservation Translocations. IUCN, Gland
World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) & International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) (2014) Guidelines for Wildlife Disease Risk Analysis. OIE, Paris. Published in association with the IUCN and the Species Survival Commission, pp 24
Metadata
Title
Health and Disease in Translocated Wild Animals
Authors
Ian Carter
Anthony W. Sainsbury
Katherine Walsh
Hartley Matthew
Jon Curson
John G. Ewen
Publication date
01-03-2017
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
EcoHealth / Issue Special Issue 1/2017
Print ISSN: 1612-9202
Electronic ISSN: 1612-9210
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10393-016-1200-2

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