One Health

Resources illustrating the interconnections between human, livestock, wildlife, and ecosystem health, and how these links influence human-wildlife conflicts. They explore zoonotic risks, shared landscapes, and the implications of pathogen transmission and resource use for both people and wildlife. Applying a One Health approach can help integrate ecological, veterinary, and public health perspectives to support safer, more sustainable coexistence.

Key Papers

Barua, M., Bhagwat, S. A., & Jadhav, S. (2013). The hidden dimensions of human–wildlife conflict: Health impacts, opportunity and transaction costs. Biological Conservation, 157, 309–316. External resources

Cunningham, A. A., Daszak, P., & Wood, J. L. N. 2017. One Health, emerging infectious diseases and wildlife. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 372(1725), 20160160. External resources

Desvars-Larrive, A., et al. 2024. A One Health framework for exploring zoonotic interactions across humans, domestic animals and wildlife. Nature Communications, 15:5650. External resources

Donnelly, C. A. et al. 2003. Impact of localized badger culling on tuberculosis incidence in British cattle. Nature 426, 834–837. External resources

Fagre, A. C. et al. 2022. Assessing the risk of human-to-wildlife pathogen transmission for conservation and public health. Ecol. Lett. 25, 1534–1549. External resources

Ghai, R. R. et al. 2022. A generalizable One Health framework for the control of zoonotic diseases. Sci. Rep. 12, 8588. External resources

Gómez, J. M., Nunn, C. L. & Verdú, M. 2013. Centrality in primate–parasite networks reveals the potential for the transmission of emerging infectious diseases to humans. PNAS 110, 7738–7741. External resources

Goulet C, de Garine-Wichatitsky M, Chardonnet P, de Klerk LM, Kock R, Muset S, Suu-Ire R, Caron A. An operational framework for wildlife health in the One Health approach. One Health. 2024 Oct 24;19:100922. External resources

Griffin, J. M. et al. 2025. The impact of badger removal on the control of tuberculosis in cattle herds in Ireland. Prev. Vet. Med. 67, 237–266. External resources

Guenin, M.-J. et al. 2022. A participatory epidemiological and One Health approach to explore the community’s capacity to detect emerging zoonoses and surveillance network opportunities in the forest region of Guinea. PLoS Negl. Trop. Dis. 16, e0010462. External resources

Hassell, J. M., Begon, M., Ward, M. J. & Fèvre, E. M. 2017. Urbanization and disease emergence: dynamics at the wildlife-livestock-human interface. Trends Ecol. Evol. 32, 55–67. External resources

Hirst, K. M. & Halsey, S. J. 2023. Bacterial zoonoses impacts to conservation of wildlife populations: a global synthesis. Front. Conserv. Sci. 4. External resources

Jones, B. A. et al. 2013. Zoonosis emergence linked to agricultural intensification and environmental change. PNAS 110, 8399–8404. External resources

Keesing, F. et al. 2010. Impacts of biodiversity on the emergence and transmission of infectious diseases. Nature 468, 647–652. External resources

Klich, D., M. Sobczuk, S. M. Basak, I. A. Wierzbowska, A. Tallian, M. Hędrzak, B. Popczyk, and K. Żoch. 2021. Predation on livestock as an indicator of drastic prey decline? The indirect effects of an African swine fever epidemic on predator–prey relations in Poland. Ecological Indicators 133:108419.  Download

Malone, C. J., et al. 2024. Collaborative strategies for wildlife health: case studies from One Health practice and implications for HWC monitoring. Journal of Wildlife Management / Wildlife Health (early view). External resources

Markotter, W. et al. 2023. Prevention of zoonotic spillover: From relying on response to reducing the risk at source. PLoS Pathog. 19, e1011504. External resources

Mitchell J. 2023. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) as a form of human-wildlife conflict: Why and how nondomesticated species should be incorporated into AMR guidance. Ecol Evol, 31;13(9):e10421. External resources

Montanheiro Paolino, R., et al. (2024). Poaching and hunting, conflicts and health: human dimensions and One Health approaches. Frontiers in Conservation Science, 4. External resources

Olival, K. J. et al. 2017. Host and viral traits predict zoonotic spillover from mammals. Nature 546, 646–650. External resources

Paolino, R.M., Testa-José, C., Fernandes-Santos, R.C., Landis, M.B., de Pinho & G.M. Medici, E.P. 2024. Poaching and hunting, conflicts, and health: human dimensions of wildlife conservation in the Brazilian Cerrado. Front. Conserv. Sci., 4. External resources

Stephen C. et al. 2023. A reimagined One Health framework for wildlife conservation. Research Directions: One Health. 2023;1:e12. External resources

Vega-Mariño, P. A., et al. 2024. Review of One Health in the Galápagos Islands (Part II): human–wildlife conflict, trauma, and illegal wildlife trade. Frontiers in Conservation Science, Sec. Human-Wildlife Interactions, Volume 5. External resources

Documents

World Wildlife Fund (WWF). (2024/2025). Toward a healthy planet: A One Health approach to conservation. WWF briefing / technical report (practical guidance on integrating One Health into wildlife conservation and HWC mitigation). External resources