WCS's WildHealthNet project is supporting the governments of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia to build sustainable wildlife surveillance platforms with a One Health approach. The networks have already facilitated the rapid detection and response to avian influenza and African swine fever outbreaks. Greater investment in wildlife health should accompany vital efforts to combat deforestation, forest degradation, and wildlife trade, and reverse the devastating trajectory of human-driven biological degradation that is driving the increased emergence of wildlife and human diseases.
Read more about this and other WCS Health Programs news from investigating iguana die-offs to recusing wild condors and developments in wildlife forensics in our summer 2021 newsletter here.
