Wildlife Disease Ecology

Target Audience: 

Refuges, Ecological Services, and Fish hatcheries.

Summary and Objectives: 

Throughout this course you’ll learn about how disease spreads, how to manage diseases outbreaks, proper ways to handle and ship specimens, and stressors other than disease that impact wildlife populations. Much of the material in this course is lecture videos from Dr. Joe Caudell a Wildlife Biologist at USDA-APHIS.  Additional information is from the Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study at the University of Georgia and the National Conservation Training Center. 

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Understand One Health concept and be able to relay that to others 
• Understand the basic biology of a disease 
• Be able to manage a disease outbreak on a refuge (for NWRS staff) OR be able to manage a disease affecting a listed species (for ES staff) 
• Know types of samples that are required to be gathered for sending to diagnostic lab 

Competency Addressed:

​Wildlife and Fisheries Biology Management - Awareness; Wildlife and Fisheries Biology Techniques - Awareness