Balancing Livestock Production and Wildlife Conservation in and around Southern Africa's Transfrontier Conservation Areas

Transboundary and Emerging Diseases

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 492-506

  Thomson, G R ^a,b   Penrith, M L ^a,b   Atkinson, M W ^c   Atkinson, S J ^d   Cassidy, D ^a   Osofsky, S A ^d  

^a TAD Scientific CC   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^c Wildlife Health and Health Policy Program   (Botswana)

^d WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity conservation; Livestock production; Transboundary animal diseases; Transfrontier conservation areas

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

AFRICA; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; INCIDENCE; LIVESTOCK; LIVESTOCK PRODUCTION; STATISTICS; TRANSBOUNDARY ANIMAL DISEASES; TRANSFRONTIER CONSERVATION AREAS; WILD ANIMAL; ZOONOSIS;

BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION; LIVESTOCK PRODUCTION; TRANSBOUNDARY ANIMAL DISEASES; TRANSFRONTIER CONSERVATION AREAS;

AFRICA, SOUTHERN; ANIMAL DISEASES; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; INCIDENCE; LIVESTOCK; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84887207511     PISSN: 18651674     EISSN: 18651682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tbed.12175     Document Type: Article

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