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Addressing Wildlife Risk Knowledge Gaps At the Environment-Health Nexus of the Andes-Amazon-Orinoco: Socio-ecological Impacts and Mechanisms of Pathogen Emergence in Changing Landscapes

Initiative: Globale Herausforderungen
Ausschreibung: Pandemieprävention: die Rolle von Mensch-Umwelt-Beziehungen
Bewilligung: 02.12.2022
Laufzeit: 3 Jahre 6 Monate

Projektinformationen

Addressing Wildlife Risk Knowledge Gaps at the Environment-Health Nexus of the Andes-Amazon-Orinoco: Socio-ecological Impacts and Mechanisms of Pathogen Emergence in Changing Landscapes (SIMPEL) Human alterations of landscapes and resultant impacts on human and animal distributions are key environmental changes occurring worldwide. Evidence is growing that such anthropogenic environmental changes are driving increased emergence of zoonotic pathogens. However, the current understanding of these linkages is limited, primarily correlative, and inconsistent across spatial and temporal scales, pathogens, transmission routes, and ecological contexts. This project will apply inter- and trans-disciplinary studies to characterize the ecological and social impacts of transitions from one land-use type to another, including effects on wild and domestic hosts, their pathogens, and human-nature relations. The project focuses on the under-studied, highly biodiverse, and rapidly changing landscapes of the Andes-Amazon-Orinoco in Colombia and Bolivia, and the Indigenous and local communities reliant on them, such as the T'simane and Tacana in Bolivia and diverse Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities in Colombia. We will define the links between potential pathogen emergence and environmental transformation to better detect, predict and prevent future pandemic emergence associated with land use change, and strengthen the evidence base for integrating health into environmental conservation and development policies and Indigenous territorial management plans.

Projektbeteiligte

  • Prof. Dr. Alex Greenwood

    Leibniz-Institut für Zoo- und
    Wildtierforschung (IZW)
    im Forschungsverbund Berlin e.V.
    Department of Wildlife Diseases
    Berlin

  • Dr. Sarah Olson

    Wildlife Conservation Society
    Health Program
    Bronx, New York
    USA

  • Zulema Lehm

    Wildlife Conservation Society
    Trinidad
    Bolivien

  • Fabian Beltran

    Wildlife Conservation Society
    WCS Bolivia
    La Paz
    La Paz
    Bolivien

  • Dr. LUZ ACEVEDO

    Wildlife Conservation Society
    Wildlife Health
    Bogotá
    Kolumbien (Colombia)