Title
Activity Report of the WCS Ecosystem Health Team in the Wakhan District, Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan - July 2010
Author(s)
Noori, H. and A.M. Rajabi (supervised by S. Ostrowski)
Abstract
An activity report documenting the progress of WCS in developing the capacity and skills of Wakhi villagers and rangers through various training activities. The particular focus of the report is on ranger training exercises provided by the Ecosystem Health Project Team during summer 2010. This training aimed at providing an overview of wildife diseases and highlighting the importance of community/ranger patrol work in surveilling wildlife and livestock health within the higher-altitude rangelands.
Keywords
Capacity development , training, wildlife health surveillance, rangeland use, livestock census, foot-and-mouth disease, vaccination, Wakhan Valley, Badakhshan, Afghan Pamirs, quesionnaire survey, disease epidemiology
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