Scaling Up Wildlife Health Surveillance: Lessons from the Transition of Focal Marsh Deer (Blastocerus dichotomus) Mortality Monitoring to Integrated Surveillance in Protected Areas of Argentina.

From wildlife monitoring to one health intelligence: formalizing protected area rangers and forest guards as sentinel actors for zoonotic spillover surveillance

Co-designing a cross-sectoral community-based zoonoses surveillance system in the wild meat value chain of Gabon

Background : Approximately 60% of recently emerging infectious diseases are zoonotic, with over 70% originating from wildlife. These diseases have significant public health and economic impacts globally, as exemplified by the Ebola epidemics. Community-based surveillance is increasingly recognized as a corner-ston...

A decade under lens: Characterizing wildlife mortality from disease and infection in Chitwan National Park, Nepal

Mortality and health issues are becoming an emerging issue in the conservation and management of wildlife populations. Understanding the causes of mortality is necessary for proper management of wildlife and habitats. To address this, a mixed approach was employed: we conducted a longitudinal analysis of a decade (20...

Climate-Driven Wildfire Risk in the Sumapaz Páramo, Colombia: Coupling the Fire Weather Index with Spatiotemporal Analysis for Sustainable Ecosystem Management

Páramo ecosystems are among the most biodiverse and hydrologically critical landscapes on Earth, yet their long-term sustainability is increasingly threatened by climate-driven wildfires. Vegetation Cover Fires (VCFs) in these high-altitude environments degrade carbon stocks, disrupt freshwater regulation, and undermin...

Wildlife disease surveillance under uncertainty: an adaptive search-theoretic framework for early detection of transboundary animal diseases

Rapid detection is critical for successful management of transboundary animal disease incursions in wild host populations. However, decisions about how best to allocate wildlife disease surveillance effort must be made under high uncertainty. Risk-based surveillance can improve efficiency but approaches that focus surv...

Integrating biodiversity protection into emergency management.

Megafires have emerged as a considerable threat to biodiversity conservation worldwide. The biodiversity-focused response and recovery actions that occurred during Australia's 2019/2020 Black Summer bushfires demonstrate that it is possible to protect biodiversity alongside human life and property during disasters. Dur...