[Environment] WILDCOMS-Wildlife Disease & Contaminant Monitoring & Surveillance Network

[环境] WILDCOMS-野生动物疾病

基本信息

批准号：
NE/I021063/1
负责人：
Richard Shore
金额：
$ 12.54万
依托单位：
NERC CEH (Up to 30.11.2019)
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2011
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2011 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE%2FI021063%2F1
关键词：
Environment WILDCOMS Wildlife Disease Contaminant

项目摘要

Disease and contaminants both pose major risks to wildlife and Man. This is well recognised and there are a variety of surveillance schemes in the UK that monitor wildlife for occurrence and severity of diseases and/or contaminants. These schemes complement rather than duplicate each other but share many operational procedures and so can face similar challenges. The information gathered from each surveillance scheme is communicated to a wide spectrum of end users. The various surveillance schemes are run by different government agencies and laboratories, research centres, institutes and Universities. The funders of the schemes are an equally diverse range of government departments, agencies and industry. A key difficulty caused by this myriad of researchers and funding organisations is that it hampers communication between schemes. The schemes only have opportunistic and ad hoc mechanisms to exchange knowledge or develop common best practices that would facilitate sharing of samples and data. Such cooperation can also be hampered by differences between funders in the priorities that they wish surveillance schemes to address. Furthermore, because each scheme reports its findings largely in isolation, it is difficult for end users to obtain an overview of common or widespread threats. The main aim of this project is to establish a Wildlife Disease & Contaminant Monitoring & Surveillance (WILDCOMS) network. This will provide a partnership between nine current UK contaminant and disease surveillance schemes. The network will foster and facilitate knowledge exchange, harmonisation towards best practice, collaboration and sharing of resources. It will also enhance and widen communication with and between end-users, and in particular will provide end-users with an holistic overview of environmental disease and contaminant risk. This should make identification of emerging hazards and risks easier and quicker to spot, and provide the more integrated scientific evidence base needed to formulate better and timely policy and regulation. The specific objectives, delivered in four work packages, will be: (i) to establish and develop the network through regular partners meetings (ii) to use the network to maximise communication of integrated surveillance information to a wide range of end-users through an annual Stakeholder Forum and through collation of findings from all schemes into web-based quarterly bulletins(iii) development towards harmonised operational procedures (sample collection, measurement, data recording and sample archiving) that will facilitate sharing and collaboration between schemes and eliminate duplication of effort (iv) to develop a sustainable model for WILDCOMS and extend its scope to a European scale through linkage with key European partners and networksWILDCOMS will thus facilitate sharing of skills, expertise, knowledge, samples and data, thereby maximising the use of available resources. This will result in better value for money overall and foster development of new initiatives. The benefits the network will deliver can be summarised as: (a) ntegrated surveillance leading to an improved scientific evidence base with which regulators and policy makers can assess threats to wild vertebrates and human health (b) better long term management, sharing and dissemination of samples, best practice and data (c) a recognised forum that will facilitate discussion and collaboration between surveillance schemes and different end-users and stakeholders (d) an enhanced UK research base by increasing knowledge through scientific publications and greater awareness of activities and specimen archives(e) benefits for industrial end users including potential for averting costs by preventing problems(f) benefits to quality of life to the through improved risk assessment

疾病和污染物都对野生动植物和人构成主要风险。这是众所周知的，英国有各种监视计划，以监测野生动植物的发生和严重性疾病和/或污染物。这些方案补充而不是相互复制，但共享许多操作程序，因此可能面临类似的挑战。从每个监视方案中收集的信息都传达给广泛的最终用户。各种监视计划由不同的政府机构和实验室，研究中心，机构和大学运行。这些计划的资助者是政府部门，机构和工业范围同样多样化的。由无数的研究人员和资助组织造成的一个关键困难是，它阻碍了方案之间的沟通。这些方案只有机会主义和临时机制来交换知识或发展共同的最佳实践，从而有助于共享样本和数据。资助者之间的差异在他们希望监视计划应解决的优先事项方面的差异也可以阻碍这种合作。此外，由于每个方案在很大程度上报告了其发现，因此最终用户很难获得常见或广泛威胁的概述。该项目的主要目的是建立野生动植物疾病和污染物监测与监视（Wildcoms）网络。这将提供九个目前的英国污染物和疾病监视计划之间的伙伴关系。该网络将促进和促进知识交流，协调最佳实践，协作和资源共享。它还将加强与最终用户之间及其之间的沟通，尤其将为最终用户提供对环境疾病和污染风险的全面概述。这应该使识别新兴危害和风险更容易，更快地发现，并提供更加集成的科学证据基础，以制定更好，及时的政策和监管。在四个工作包中交付的特定目标将是：（i）通过常规合作伙伴会议（ii）建立和开发网络（ii），以通过网络最大化集成监视信息的通信，通过年度利益相关者论坛以及通过将所有计划的调查结果整理到基于Web的季度公告（III）开发（III）开发方面，朝着协调的运营程序（样本收集，测量，数据记录和样本归档），这将有助于方案之间的共享和协作并消除重复的重复（iv）为Wildcoms开发可持续模型，并通过与主要的欧洲合作伙伴和网络带有联系将其范围扩展到欧洲规模，从而有助于共享技能，专业知识，知识，样本和数据，从而最大程度地使用可用资源。这将带来更高的物有所值，并促进新计划的发展。网络将带来的好处可以总结为：（a）NTEGRE的监视，导致改进的科学证据基础，监管机构和政策制定者可以评估对野生脊椎动物和人类健康的威胁（b）更好的长期管理，共享和分享和分享和传播和传播样本，最佳实践和数据（c）一个公认的论坛，将促进监视计划与不同的最终用户和利益相关者之间的讨论和协作（d）通过通过科学出版物和对活动和标本档案的更高认识来提高知识，以增强英国研究基础（e）对工业最终用户的福利，包括通过预防问题（F）通过改善风险评估来避免成本的潜力（F）