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A New Voice in Conservation: Conservation medicine seeks to bring ecologists, veterinarians, and doctors together around a simple unifying concept: health

Scott Norris

BioScience, Volume 51, Issue 1,January 2001, Pages 7–12, https://doi.org/10.1641/0006-3568(2001)051[0007:ANVIC]2.0.CO;2

Published: 01 January 2001

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Of the various brewing biological crises of our time, the issues of declining biodiversity and emerging disease are among the most complex and far-reaching. In many respects they are also different sides of the same coin, a perspective that is central to the new field of conservation medicine. The product of a growing coalition of conservation biologists and ecologists, wildlife veterinarians, and biomedical researchers, conservation medicine explicitly addresses the interlinked and transdisciplinary nature of many of today's most urgent health and conservation issues.

The field is being advanced most forcefully by researchers associated with the recently establishedConsortium for Conservation Medicine(CCM). Originally established in 1998 within the School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University, CCM consists of three partner organizations representing the veterinary, wildlife conservation, and human health components of conservation medicine. Collaborating withTufts are Wildlife Trust, a US-based wildlife conservation organization, and the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School.

The advent of conservation medicine is timely. In this era of widespread environmental degradation, declining biodiversity, and emerging diseases in both humans and animals, many medical experts and conservationists agree with conservation medicine's defining theme: The concept of health—for both humans and animals—must be understood in an ecological context. One of the aims of conservation medicine is to formalize and advance this multidisciplinary perspective.

“Health connects all species on the planet,” said Philip Kosch, dean of the Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine, in introducing a special symposium on conservation medicine at the June 2000 meeting of the Society for Conservation Biology in Missoula, Montana. Much of the focus at the symposium was on the complex problem of emerging diseases—that is, those with increasing incidence or geographic range. “There are almost no examples of emerging wildlife diseases not driven by human environmental change,” saidPeter Daszak, a disease ecologist at the University of Georgia. “Andfew human emerging diseases don't include some domestic animal or wildlife component.”

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