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Short course 10

"Southern and East African Experts Panel on Designing Successful Conservation and Development Interventions at the Wildlife/Livestock Interface: Implications for Wildlife, Livestock, and Human Health"

Date: 14-15 September 2003 // ROOM 3C

Conducted by: Wildlife Conservation Society, IUCN SSC Veterinary Specialist Group, IUCN Southern African Sustainable Use Specialist Group, PACE-IBAR and partners

A two-day interactive forum at which approximately 55 invited Southern and East African and other experts share their vision for conservation and development success at the wildlife / livestock interface.

The forum's goal is to foster a sharing of ideas among African practitioners and development professionals that will lead to concrete and creative initiatives that address conservation and development challenges related to health at the livestock/wildlife/human interface.

The focus of presentations will be ongoing efforts and future needs in and around the region's flagship protected areas and conservancies and their buffer zones- the places where tensions and challenges at the livestock/wildlife interface are often greatest.

Colleagues interested in these issues are also encouraged to visit the IUCN SSC Veterinary Specialist Group (VSG) website at www.iucn-vsg.org as well as www.fieldvet.org .

The initiative to be launched at this meeting is called AHEAD- Animal Health for the Environment And Development.

The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), IUCN VSG, IUCN SASUSG and other partners are helping to start AHEAD in recognition of the importance of animal health to both conservation and development interests. Around the world, domestic and wild animals are coming into ever-more-intimate contact as we all of course know, and (without adequate scientific knowledge and planning) the consequences can be detrimental on one or both sides of the proverbial fence. But armed with the tools that the health sciences provide, conservation and development objectives have a much greater chance of being realized- particularly at the critical wildlife / livestock interface where conservation and agricultural interests meet head-on.

We hope to catalyze work focused on several themes of critical importance to the future of animal agriculture, wildlife health, and human health (including zoonoses, competition over grazing and water resources, disease mitigation, local and global food security, and other potential sources of conflict related to overall land-use planning and economics).

To date, neither the nongovernmental organizations nor the aid community nor academia have holistically addressed the landscape-level nexus represented by the wildlife health / domestic animal health / human health triangle.

Organizations potentially interested in co-sponsoring the AHEAD forum should contact Steve Osofsky at <sosofsky@wcs.org> .

More information on the Governance Stream
More information on the Building Broader Support for PAs Stream

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