Wildlife Population Health

by Craig Stephen
May 2022

This textbook introduces the core competencies, tools, and perspectives to manage free-ranging animal population health and demonstrates their need and relevance to help wildlife cope with the ever-increasing pressures of the Anthropocene, manifested by global megatrends such as climate change, urbanization, and pollution. It adapts and adopts key concepts of population health from public health and herd health to a wildlife health context. In a highly-accessible and unique form, this book presents a modern way of approaching wildlife and fish epidemiology, health promotion, and disease control, with a focus on the social dimensions of wildlife health management.

Aimed at graduate students in veterinary medicine, wildlife researchers, and health managers, this textbook provides a valuable source of information to foster the knowledge and skills needed to protect and promote the health of free-ranging wildlife.

• Introduce the core concepts of free-ranging animal population health management
• Teaches evidence-based decision-making in wildlife and fish health maintenance
• Integrates human dimensions of wildlife health management with core population health concepts