WEBINAR: Understanding and Addressing Urban Consuption of Bushmeat in Nigeria [Tuesday 9 February 2021]

Join WildAid and GlobeScan to learn about our new bushmeat survey and to discuss the best ways to use these findings to pretect Nigeria's wildlife

Date:

Tuesday, 9 February 2021

Time:

9am GMT; 12pm EAT; 5pm Beijing

Panelists:

Peter Knights, CEO, WildAid

Dr Yahya Disu, Head of Risk Communications, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control

Wander Meijer, Director, GlobeScan

Linus Unah, West Africa Representative, WildAid

For more information & to register:

https://globescan.zoom.us/webinar/register/9016099681557/WN_R7M2Vl1fSmSzU6lmJHFlkQ

REPORT - Framework for One Health Practice in National Public Health Institutes: Zoonotic Disease Prevention and Control (by African Union & Africa CDC)

Title of report:

Framework for One Health Practice in National Public Health Institutes: Zoonotic Disease Prevention and Control

 

By:

African Union & Africa CDC

Date published:

26 October 2020

Theme:

One Health

Region:

Central Africa, Eastern Africa, Northern Africa, Southern Africa & Western Africa

 

To download this report:

https://africacdc.org/download/framework-for-one-health-practice-in-national-public-health-institutes/

A memo from the year 2050: Here’s how we avoided the worst of zoonotic diseases (article by Brandon Keim in Anthropocene)

 Title:

 A memo from the year 2050: Here’s how we avoided the worst of zoonotic diseases

Author:

Brandon Keim, a freelance journalist specializing in animals, nature, and science. He is the author of The Eye of the Sandpiper: Stories from the Living World (2017)

 

Published:

Anthropocene, August 2020

https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2020/08/a-memo-from-the-year-2050/

From this article:

Looking back at the early twenty-first century with the clarity of hindsight, it can be difficult to comprehend how societies with so much wealth, power, and knowledge could be so short-sighted and negligent about the threat of diseases emerging in animals and spreading to humans.

FREE WEBINAR (Saturday, 19 September 2020) on Zoonotic Diseases - Don't miss this event!

Webinar:
Zoonotic Diseases
 
Date:
Saturday, 19 September 2020
 
Time:
10:00 - 12:30 (GMT +8; Malaysian time)

Focus areas:
* Pets associated Zoonosis
* Occupational associated Zoonosis
* Multi-sectorial collaboration: learned from rabies experiences in Thailand
* Bats associated Zoonosis
 
Language:
English
 
Click here to register