Approach
The project offers an inclusive and open platform to share knowledge and raise awareness in the context of One Health. It also brings together different disciplines so that they can disseminate their findings and develop innovation solutions, synergies and collaboration. This involves monthly webinars, the website as an interactive space and multiple working groups. Stakeholders from fields such as health sciences, biology, ecology, psychology and social sciences can thus work together in practice to combat health risks in the wildlife trade. The project also supports the development of practical recommendations for the wildlife trade and the implementation of pilot projects.
For example, it funds a project in the Democratic Republic of Congo, in which the risks of zoonotic disease transmission in the bushmeat trade are identified and mapped along the trade chain - from the source to the end markets.
Another project in Indonesia is developing children's books in five different local languages in an interprofessional and multidisciplinary team, based on the values and customs of the respective ethnic group, in order to increase public awareness and knowledge of nature and species conservation.
