Health and Disease in Wild Rangelands

Kock, Richard; Kock, Mike; Cleaveland, Sarah; Thomson, G.R.

doi:10.1002/9781444317091.ch5

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“…Also, because human populations in rangelands depend to greater or lesser degrees on domesticated animals for their livelihoods, nonzoonotic diseases with wildlife reservoirs, such as foot-and-mouth disease, are also of concern. Political and social controversies at the interface between domesticated and wild animals in rangelands are thus likely to include disease issues of some type (Kock et al 2010).…”

Section: Management Of Wildlife Diseasesmentioning

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Managing the Livestock–Wildlife Interface on Rangelands

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Valeix

2017

Springer Series on Environmental Management

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On rangelands the livestock-wildlife interface is mostly characterized by management actions aimed at controlling problems associated with competition, disease, and depredation. Wildlife communities (especially the large vertebrate species) are typically incompatible with agricultural development because the opportunity costs of wildlife conservation are unaffordable except in arid and semiarid regions. Ecological factors including the provision of supplementary food and water for livestock, together with the persecution of large predators, result in livestock replacing wildlife at biomass densities far exceeding those of indigenous ungulates. Diseases are difficult to eradicate from free-ranging wildlife populations and so veterinary controls usually focus on separating commercial livestock herds from wildlife. Persecution of large carnivores due to their depredation of livestock has caused the virtual eradication of apex predators from most rangelands. However, recent research points to a broad range of solutions to reduce conflict at the livestock-wildlife interface. Conserving wildlife bolsters the adaptive capacity of a rangeland by providing stakeholders with options for dealing with environmental change. This is contingent upon local communities being empowered to benefit directly from their wildlife resources within a management framework that integrates land-use sectors at the landscape scale. As rangelands undergo irreversible changes caused by species invasions and climate forcings, the future perspective favors a proactive shift in attitude towards the livestock-wildlife interface, from problem control to asset management.

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Managing the Livestock–Wildlife Interface on Rangelands

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“…Excessive hunting drives trophic cascades, which disrupt ecosystem processes and services (Abernethy et al, 2013;Galetti and Dirzo, 2013). Handling bushmeat increases risks of disease spillover to humans and livestock (Karesh and Noble, 2009;Kock et al, 2009;Alexander et al, 2012). While bushmeat contributes to food security (Rentsch and Damon, 2013;Schulte-Herbrügen et al, 2013), the benefits are unlikely to persist in the face of increasing demand and declining wildlife resources (Bennet, 2002).…”

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Illegal bushmeat hunters compete with predators and threaten wild herbivore populations in a global tourism hotspot

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“…Tanzania has long been at the forefront of multiple land-use initiatives, for example the establishment of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area in 1959, and Tanzania’s rangelands are still large and diverse in terms of spectacular wildlife and traditional pastoralism. However, both will come under serious threat unless the agriculture and conservation sectors can work effectively and efficiently together (Kock et al 2010 ). This will require a high degree of policy harmonization, by dovetailing global and national FMD control policies with global, national and regional biodiversity conservation strategies with the ultimate result being FMD control methods aligned to an objective of a disease-free and wildlife-friendly environment.…”

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Evaluating the Potential for the Environmentally Sustainable Control of Foot and Mouth Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa

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Strategies to control transboundary diseases have in the past generated unintended negative consequences for both the environment and local human populations. Integrating perspectives from across disciplines, including livestock, veterinary and conservation sectors, is necessary for identifying disease control strategies that optimise environmental goods and services at the wildlife-livestock interface. Prompted by the recent development of a global strategy for the control and elimination of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), this paper seeks insight into the consequences of, and rational options for potential FMD control measures in relation to environmental, conservation and human poverty considerations in Africa. We suggest a more environmentally nuanced process of FMD control that safe-guards the integrity of wild populations and the ecosystem dynamics on which human livelihoods depend while simultaneously improving socio-economic conditions of rural people. In particular, we outline five major issues that need to be considered: 1) improved understanding of the different FMD viral strains and how they circulate between domestic and wildlife populations; 2) an appreciation for the economic value of wildlife for many African countries whose presence might preclude the country from ever achieving an FMD-free status; 3) exploring ways in which livestock production can be improved without compromising wildlife such as implementing commodity-based trading schemes; 4) introducing a participatory approach involving local farmers and the national veterinary services in the control of FMD; and 5) finally the possibility that transfrontier conservation might offer new hope of integrating decision-making at the wildlife-livestock interface.

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Health and Disease in Wild Rangelands

Abstract: One contribution of 14 to a theme issue 'Challenges in the fight against neglected tropical diseases: a decade from the London Declaration on NTDs'.

Cited by 12 publications

References 55 publications

Managing the Livestock–Wildlife Interface on Rangelands

Managing the Livestock–Wildlife Interface on Rangelands

Illegal bushmeat hunters compete with predators and threaten wild herbivore populations in a global tourism hotspot

Evaluating the Potential for the Environmentally Sustainable Control of Foot and Mouth Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa

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