Summer School
In West Africa, access to animal resources is a dual challenge for public health and biodiversity conservation. Logging and uncontrolled hunting activities (bushmeat) exert a deleterious pressure on wildlife populations and promote the spread of zoonoses that can be virulent to humans (e.g., Ebola, Lassa).
This summer school aims to strengthen the capacities of biodiversity managers and stakeholders in Benin (where the forestry sector contributes approximately 5% of the GDP) and neighboring countries within the Dahomey Gap regarding the integration of the Ecohealth concept into wildlife management and zoonotic risk assessment. The goal is to introduce the Ecohealth concept into protected area management and wildlife exploitation across the Dahomey Gap. This will foster an integrated, sustainable approach to human-wildlife coexistence, as well as to the public health consequences stemming from the exploitation of bushmeat and forest habitats
Structuring Training Project
This summer school aims to strengthen the capacities of biodiversity managers and stakeholders in Benin (where the forestry sector contributes approximately 5% of the GDP) and neighboring countries within the Dahomey Gap regarding the integration of the Ecohealth concept into wildlife management and zoonotic risk assessment. The goal is to introduce the Ecohealth concept into protected area management and wildlife exploitation across the Dahomey Gap. This will foster an integrated, sustainable approach to human-wildlife coexistence, as well as to the public health consequences stemming from the exploitation of bushmeat and forest habitats
Structuring Training Project