IUCN-SSC Wildlife Disease Risk Analysis (DRA) Tool Needs Assessment Survey
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For those Digest readers who are interested in wildlife disease risk analysis, the Wildlife Disease News Digest Team encourages you to complete this short survey.
Four specialist groups of the World 
Conservation Union (IUCN) Species Survival Commission (SSC) – Wildlife Health, Conservation, Reintroduction and Invasive Species – have brought together an international network of stakeholders (including wildlife veterinarians, epidemiologists, ecologists, modellers and biologists) to develop an integrated package of disease risk analysis (DRA) tools, focussed on wildlife and based on the best available science and technology.
This resource will build on and extend a major revision of the Conservation Breeding Specialist Group's (CBSG) publication: "Animal Movements and Disease Risk: A Workbook", last published in 2005 (can be downloaded at http://www.cbsg.org/cbsg/risk/).
The aims of this survey are to identify:
- Who needs wildlife DRA tools
- The range of applications of these tools
- The Risk Analysis tools currently being used
- Improvements needed in DRA tools
- Training needs in the use of DRA tools
- In what form DRA tools would be most valuable
http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/486318/IUCN-SSC-Wildlife-Disease-Risk-Analysis-DRA-Tool-Needs-Assessment
It takes less than 15 minutes and the deadline for responses is the 18th March.
Related Paper
Tools and techniques for disease risk assessment in threatened wildlife conservation programmes. International Zoo Yearbook. 2007; 41(1):38-51. [online abstract only]
Related Past Workshop
Wildlife Disease Risk Assessment (DRA) Tool Development Workshop held on October 14, 2010 [pdf]
