IUCN/SCC Otter Specialist Group Bulletin
© IUCN/SCC Otter Specialist Group

Volume 11 Pages 1 - 57 (April 1995)

Request for Veterinary Information
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I write to you as chairman of the Veterinary Group to ask for your assistance in supplying us with a list of any diseases which are perceived by any of your members to be threat to the wild populations of the taxa in which your group has a special interest. We are also anxious to receive details of the causes of any morbidity or mortality of which your members may be aware. Reference to reports, scientific papers, newspapers articles, etc. are also of concern to us. Please draw our attention to any such publications or send us photocopies for our database. Please also inform us of any specialist wildlife disease diagnostic laboratories of which you are aware.

In return, we hope to be able to offer you the service for which our group was formed. We would particularly like to draw you attention to the extreme importance of obtaining veterinary advice whenever wild animal capture, translocation, reintroduction or restoration projects are components of your Action Plans.
The risk of transmission of important diseases of human, domestic livestock, and other wild animals when wild or captive-bred animals are translocated, even over short distances from one ecozone or biotope to another, can be considerable and must be minimized by appropriate screening, quarantine, and where necessary, vaccination.

M.H. Woodford,
Chairman Veterinary Group IUCN-SSC,
500 23rd Street, N.W., Apt. B-709,
Washington D.C. 20037,
USA

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