RANFIGER HEALTH: Scientific and educational cooperation in reindeer health

Carlos das NevesDVM PhD

RANFIGER HEALTH: Scientific and educational cooperation in reindeer health

• Most abundant terrestrial mammal in the Arctic

• More than 6 million animals in the Arctic

• Major economical resource in the Arctic specially for indigenous communities

•Central in social, cultural and historical traditions of indigenous peoples

•Some subspecies threatened to extinction

•Several diseases, some zoonotic already identified

•Little specific education on reindeer health on Scandinavia

Why Reindeer health?Why Reindeer health?

RANFIGER HEALTH: Scientific and educational cooperation in reindeer health

4th step long

lasting projects

3rd step increase Reindeer health

education

2nd step network and make knowledge available

to 3rd parties (NGOs, students, SME)

1st step understand and link the role of pathogens in Rangifer health

•individual and herd health•human health (zoonotic diseases)

•ecosystem health (spillover to sympatric species)

RANFIGER HEALTH: Scientific and educational cooperation in reindeer health

Tromsø – 3 res + 4 stud – Virology, bacteriology and ImmunologyOslo – 1 res – Reproduction and obstetrics

Ås – 1 res + 2 stud – Nutrition and calving

Tromsø – 2 res - PathologyOslo – 2 res + 1 stud – Pathology, management, parasitology, bacteriology, virology

Uppsala – 2 res + 3 stud – nutrition, welfare, radioactive contamination

Uppsala - 2 res + 3 stud – Pathology, management and surveillance, parasitology, bacteriology, virology

Oulu - 1 res + 3 stud – Pathology, management and surveillance, parasitology, bacteriology

Keldur - 1 res - parasitology

Egilsstaðir - 1 res + 3 stud – population health, GPS tracking

Nuuk- 1 res + 2 stu - Caribou and muscox health

Calgary- 11 res + 7 stu - Parasitology, bacteriology, virology, management and welfare

Fairbanks - 2 res + 4 stu - Nutrition, plant-animal interaction, climate and health changes

Anchorage - 6 res + 4 stu - Management and surveillance, virology, bacteriology, parasitology, nutrition and welfare

RANFIGER HEALTH: Scientific and educational cooperation in reindeer health

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•WP1WP1 Launching meeting for RANGIFER HEALTH Tromsø

•WP2 WP2 Establish a web platform for networking and website for scientific and public information •WP3WP3 Make a detailed assessment of present research and future needs in reindeer health investigation in the Nordic region as a tool to better establish new cooperative projects

•WP4WP4 Organization of a course for PhD/Master students on reindeer health

•WP5 WP5 RANGIFER HEALTH annual seminars•WP6WP6 PhD/Master students scholarships program•WP7WP7 Mobility program for researchers•WP8WP8 RANGIFER HEALTH and society

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RANFIGER HEALTH: Scientific and educational cooperation in reindeer health

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……. To pole!. To pole!THANK YOUTHANK YOUTUSEN TAKKTUSEN TAKK