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Effective health and disease surveillance of wildlife populations is necessary for evidence-based wildlife management and conservation, as well as for the protection of human and animal health. Wildlife surveillance, however, is often challenging to undertake due to numerous limitations associated w...
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ftdatacite:10.11575/prism/32779 2023-11-05T03:39:39+01:00 Improved Wildlife Health and Disease Surveillance through the Combined Use of Local Knowledge and Scientific Knowledge ... Tomaselli, Matilde 2018 https://dx.doi.org/10.11575/prism/32779 https://prism.ucalgary.ca/handle/1880/107597 en eng Graduate Studies University of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission. Local knowledge Inuit knowledge participatory epidemiology participatory wildlfie health and disease surveillance muskox caribou zoonoses food safety wildlife co-management. Forestry and Wildlife Veterinary Science article doctoral thesis CreativeWork Other 2018 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.11575/prism/32779 2023-10-09T10:53:16Z Effective health and disease surveillance of wildlife populations is necessary for evidence-based wildlife management and conservation, as well as for the protection of human and animal health. Wildlife surveillance, however, is often challenging to undertake due to numerous limitations associated with gathering and interpreting field data from free-ranging populations. This thesis illustrates a novel approach to wildlife health surveillance which overcomes these limitations by capitalizing on the experiential-based knowledge of resource users documented with participatory methods and applied in combination with conventional surveillance methods. This participatory approach was developed and applied in – and with the active participation of – the community of Cambridge Bay in the Canadian Arctic to improve veterinary surveillance of muskoxen (Ovibos moschatus). In the North, harvesting muskoxen improves food security, the local economy and is connected to local indigenous culture and traditions. In Cambridge ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Cambridge Bay caribou inuit muskox ovibos moschatus DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) |
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Effective health and disease surveillance of wildlife populations is necessary for evidence-based wildlife management and conservation, as well as for the protection of human and animal health. Wildlife surveillance, however, is often challenging to undertake due to numerous limitations associated with gathering and interpreting field data from free-ranging populations. This thesis illustrates a novel approach to wildlife health surveillance which overcomes these limitations by capitalizing on the experiential-based knowledge of resource users documented with participatory methods and applied in combination with conventional surveillance methods. This participatory approach was developed and applied in – and with the active participation of – the community of Cambridge Bay in the Canadian Arctic to improve veterinary surveillance of muskoxen (Ovibos moschatus). In the North, harvesting muskoxen improves food security, the local economy and is connected to local indigenous culture and traditions. In Cambridge ... |
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