STRATEGY 4.3.2: Environment & Health

Identify the connection between the natural environment and wildlife and human health.

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Human health is often related to the health of the environment and wildlife health. The emergence of diseases transferred between animals and humans is a growing concern. The Department is taking a leadership role in providing the natural science information needed by health researchers, policy makers, and the public to safeguard public health by monitoring wildlife, identifying wild animal disease reservoirs, and maintaining and integrating critical knowledge about wild animal disease transmission to humans, and the use of wild animals as sentinels of human health.

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