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New study on co-infection in Kenyan wildlife enhances understanding of neglected zoonotic diseases

Researchers typically study animal diseases one at a time, but diseases often come in combinations. To better understand how diseases work in their natural environments, International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) researchers led by Bernard Bett and James Akoko, together with researchers from...

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Biodiversity conservation to control zoonotic disease spillover

The International Union for Conservation of Nature and the African Wildlife Foundation organized the Africa Protected Areas Congress (APAC), the first ever continent-wide gathering of African leaders, citizens and stakeholders to discuss the role of protected areas in conserving nature,...

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18 livestock investments to take One Health to scale and prevent new pandemics

The COVID-19 pandemic is only the latest evidence that we can’t protect human health if we fail to protect the health of animals and environments. A new One Health playbook makes the case that livestock systems, economies and peoples of the South are One Health game-changers—inflection points for a...

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Investigating pathogens in wildlife in Kenya to tackle neglected zoonoses

Wild animals harbour many pathogens that can infect livestock and people. Because of this, epidemiological studies on these pathogens should include wildlife sampling to generate data on their distribution patterns in natural ecologies. This has been the overriding interest under the Co-infection...

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​​​​​​​New atlas reveals climate-critical rangelands cover half the world's land surface, supporting millions of people and critical ecosystems—yet often ignored despite threats

● 54 per cent of the world’s terrestrial surface consists of rangelands, but just 10 per cent of national climate plans (as part of the Paris Climate Agreement) include references to rangelands ● New rangelands atlas can guide climate and biodiversity negotiators ahead of UN summits ● Despite their...

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Nairobi is rapidly losing its green spaces: this could open the door to more diseases

Hundreds of trees have been felled along Nairobi’s Uhuru and Waiyaki highways to make space for a new expressway. CELINE CLERY/AFP via Getty Images Eric Fèvre , University of Liverpool and James Hassell , Yale University There’s been widespread concern in Kenya over the shrinking of green spaces in...

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One World, One Health: a landscape approach for preventing and mitigating future pandemics

It was “perhaps the most important session of the conference,” said John Colmey, managing director of the Global Landscapes Forum (GLF). Hosted by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), the session ‘A One Health approach for environmental, animal and human health’ was held on 28...

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Mitigating future pandemics through a One Health approach

Join the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) at the upcoming Global Landscapes Forum on Biodiversity for a special session on the link between One Health and sustainable landscapes.

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One Health Centre in Africa

One Health Research, Education and Outreach Centre in Africa (Logo designed by ILRI/CKM) . The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) has established a One Health Centre in Africa (OHRECA) to enhance the health of people, animals and their shared environment in the continent. Funded by...

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ILRI’s Kapiti Research Station to serve as conservancy and critical wildlife corridor for Nairobi National Park

ILRI’s Kapiti Research Station (photo credit: ILRI/Jake Meyers). ‘Nairobi National Park wildlife ecosystem has more than doubled its land size to 78,000 acres after two institutions agreed to integrate their land with the wildlife conservancy. On Thursday, 24 Sep 2020, the Kapiti Research Station...

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ILRI’s Kapiti Research Station commits to preserving biodiversity and conserving wildlife through its wildlife corridor

Cabinet Secretary Najib Balala giving ILRI’s director general, Jimmy Smith, a certificate of registration for ILRI’s Kapiti Wildlife Conservancy (photo credit: CS Balala). Nairobi, Kenya – At a masked, socially-distanced ceremony held on 24 Sep 2020 at the Swara Plains Conservancy, the...

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Wildlife markets in the pandemic: Prohibit or preserve them? Ban or promote them?

Pork sold in a wet market in Cambodia (photo credit: ILRI/David Aronson). ILRI and UN experts say preserve and protect the world’s ‘informal markets’ AND invest and enhance these markets, which provide billions of people with food and incomes. An opinion piece by ILRI scientist Kristina Roesel and...