Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Part I Conservation Translocations: Getting Started
- Part II Conservation Translocations: The Key Issues
- 3 Conservation Translocations and the Law
- 4 Decision-Making in Animal Conservation Translocations: Biological Considerations and Beyond
- 5 Animal Disease and Conservation Translocations
- 6 Animal Welfare, Animal Rights, and Conservation Translocations: Moving Forward in the Face of Ethical Dilemmas
- 7 Conservation Translocations for Plants
- 8 Plant Health, Biosecurity, and Conservation Translocations
- 9 Genomics and Conservation Translocations
- 10 The Human Dimensions and the Public Engagement Spectrum of Conservation Translocation
- 11 Assisted Colonisation and Ecological Replacement
- 12 The Role of Conservation Translocations in Rewilding and De-extinction
- Part III Conservation Translocations: Looking to the Future
- Part IV Case Studies
- Index
- Plates
5 - Animal Disease and Conservation Translocations
from Part II - Conservation Translocations: The Key Issues
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 December 2022
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Part I Conservation Translocations: Getting Started
- Part II Conservation Translocations: The Key Issues
- 3 Conservation Translocations and the Law
- 4 Decision-Making in Animal Conservation Translocations: Biological Considerations and Beyond
- 5 Animal Disease and Conservation Translocations
- 6 Animal Welfare, Animal Rights, and Conservation Translocations: Moving Forward in the Face of Ethical Dilemmas
- 7 Conservation Translocations for Plants
- 8 Plant Health, Biosecurity, and Conservation Translocations
- 9 Genomics and Conservation Translocations
- 10 The Human Dimensions and the Public Engagement Spectrum of Conservation Translocation
- 11 Assisted Colonisation and Ecological Replacement
- 12 The Role of Conservation Translocations in Rewilding and De-extinction
- Part III Conservation Translocations: Looking to the Future
- Part IV Case Studies
- Index
- Plates
Summary
Disease outbreaks may be a threat to the outcome of conservation translocations, and disease risk analysis is best completed before translocation. Disease risk analysis is hampered by knowledge of the full complement and pathogenicity of parasites harboured by wild animals.
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- Conservation Translocations , pp. 149 - 179Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022