Improving wildlife health monitoring using community networks, screening and immunology
Key Facts
FUNDING SCHEME Innovation
VALUE £199,873
WHERE Tanzania, Rwanda, Kenya
Summary
This project will create a regional wildlife health working group in East Africa, comprised of wildlife and livestock veterinarians and conservation stakeholders. This group will use innovative tools that bridge traditional epidemiological knowledge about wildlife health with conventional diagnostic methods, such as non-invasive sampling using ecoimmunology biomarkers. The working group will generate evidence for animal diseases affecting conservation and poverty, and recommendations for scalable and sustainable approaches to improving surveillance of wildlife health in East Africa.
Manase ELISA - Tanzanian Relief Institute, International Livestock Research Institute, University of Rwanda - CAVM, Wildlife Research & Training Institute (WRTI), University of Pretoria, Mpala Research Centre
