Predicted Wildlife Disease-Related Climate Change Impacts of Specific Concern to USDA APHIS Wildlife Services

Authors

Timothy P. Algeo, USDA APHIS Wildlife Services, National Rabies Management Program, Concord, New Hampshire
Richard B. Chipman, USDA APHIS Wildlife Services, National Rabies Management Program, Concord, New HampshireFollow
Dennis Slate, USDA APHIS Wildlife Services, National Rabies Management Program, Concord, New Hampshire
Jerome E. Freier, USDA APHIS Veterinary Services, Natural Resources Research Center, Center for Epidemiology and Animal Health, Fort Collins, Colorado
Thomas J. DeLiberto, USDA/APHIS/WS National Wildlife Research CenterFollow

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

2014

Citation

Published at Univ. of Calif., Davis. 2014. Pp. 310-315.

Comments

U.S. Government Work

Abstract

USDA APHISWildlife Services plans for and responds to a variety of exigencies such as wildlife hazards to aircraft, disease emergence from wildlife translocations, oral rabies vaccine barrier compromises, and extreme weather events. These are often collaborative efforts with state and federal agencies and others. Climate change based in part on fossil fuel use and methane gas emissions has predictable as well as unknown consequences. As a federal leader in wildlife disease research and management, it is incumbent upon Wildlife Services to be current with the scientific literature; assess potential impacts and wildlife disease management intervention needs from predicted climate change scenarios; and outline a plan of preparedness to meet a variety of potential exigencies.