Improved Wildlife Health and Disease Surveillance through the Combined Use of Local Knowledge and Scientific Knowledge

• Main Author: Tomaselli, Matilde
• Other Authors: Checkley, Sylvia L., Kutz, Susan, Elkin, Brett, Ribble, Carl Steven, Gerlach, S. Craig
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Graduate Studies 2018
• Subjects: 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; Arctic; Cambridge Bay; inuit; ovibos moschatus
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1880/107597; https://doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/32779

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...