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Nishi, J.S., Stephen C., and Elkin B.T.
2002. Implications of agricultural and wildlife policy on management and
eradication of bovine tuberculosis and brucellosis in free-ranging wood
bison of northern Canada. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.
969: 236-244. (PDF = 178 KB)
Abstract
Although disease is often an important
factor in the population dynamics of wild ungulates, it is largely the
threat - both real and perceived - that sylvatic disease reservoirs pose to
the health status of commercial livestock or game farm industry that has led
governments to establish policy and legislation for disease management,
trade, and movement. With respect to bovine tuberculosis and brucellosis in
wildlife, policies are largely borrowed from the existing regulatory
framework for domestic livestock. In this paper we review how general policy
goals for managing these reportable diseases in domestic livestock have also
affected conservation and management of bison in Canada. We argue that there
is a need to better integrate conservation biology with agricultural
livestock policy to develop management options and better address the unique
conservation challenges that diseased free-ranging bison populations
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