Canadian wildlife health surveillance—patterns, challenges and opportunities identified by a scoping review

The protection and promotion of healthy wildlife populations is emerging as a shared goal among stakeholders in the face of unprecedented environmental threats. Accordingly, there are growing demands for the generation of actionable wildlife health information. Wildlife health surveillance is a conn...

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Published in:Facets (Ottawa) Vol. 7; pp. 25 - 44
Main Authors: Giacinti, Jolene A., Jane Parmley, E., Reist, Mark, Bayley, Daniel, Pearl, David L., Jardine, Claire M.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Canadian Science Publishing 13.01.2022
Subjects:
Canada
Canadian wildlife
scoping review
wildlife disease monitoring and surveillance
wildlife health
wildlife health monitoring and surveillance
ISSN:2371-1671, 2371-1671
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Summary:The protection and promotion of healthy wildlife populations is emerging as a shared goal among stakeholders in the face of unprecedented environmental threats. Accordingly, there are growing demands for the generation of actionable wildlife health information. Wildlife health surveillance is a connected system of knowledge that generates data on a range of factors that influence health. Canada recently approved the Pan-Canadian Approach to Wildlife Health that describes challenges facing wildlife health programs and provides a path forward for modernizing our approach. This scoping review was undertaken to describe the range of peer-reviewed Canadian wildlife health surveillance literature within the context of the challenges facing wildlife health programs and to provide a quantitative synthesis of evidence to establish baselines, identify gaps, and inform areas for growth. This review describes patterns related to species, location, authorship/funding, objectives, and methodology. Five areas are identified that have the potential to propel the field of wildlife health: representativeness, expanded/diversified collaboration, community engagement, harmonization, and a shift to a solutions-focused and One Health mindset. This scoping review provides a synopsis of 10 years of Canadian wildlife health surveillance, challenges us to envision the future of successful wildlife health surveillance, and provides a benchmark from which we can measure change.
ISSN:2371-1671
2371-1671
DOI:10.1139/facets-2021-0027