Wildlife disease can put conservation at risk

Animal Social Network Theory Can Help Wildlife Conservation.

Many animals preferentially associate with certain other individuals. This social structuring can influence how populations respond to changes to their environment, thus making network analysis a promising technique for understanding, predicting, and potentially manipulating population dynamics. Various network statistics can correlate with individual fitness components and key population-level...

Managing Value at Risk Using Put Options

A natural approach to reducing the risk of a position in stock, is by buying put options on the underlying. We consider a model where the Value at Risk is taken as measure of risk, in the framework of the BlackScholes model. We show a method for the choice of the optimal strike price of the options, and provide an analytic formula for the optimal Value at Risk, for arbitrary hedging expenditure...

Wildlife Conservation Education

Emerging challenges of wildlife conservation require a multipronged approach in order to have a lasting impact. Conservation of wildlife species, their habitats, and other natural ecosystems such as water catchment areas and wetlands are increasingly coming under intense pressure and threat of extirpation. The pressure is as a result of an increase in human population, changing land uses, and t...

Wildlife Disease Research at the Aphis National Wildlife Research Center

Implications of Ebola virus disease on wildlife conservation in Nigeria

The recent Ebola Virus Disease outbreak in some West African countries spanning from late 2013 and currently on as of 13th March, 2015 is the most widespread and fatal with human mortality that has surpassed all previous outbreaks. The outbreak has had its toll on conservation of endangered species. This portends danger for the wild fauna of the country if proactive measures are not taken to pr...