WILDLIFE ECOTOXICOLOGY: CONCERTED GLOBAL EFFORTS REQUIRED

Forensic Science in Support of Wildlife Conservation Efforts - Morphological and Chemical Approaches (Global Trends).

Wildlife forensics is an emerging field and involves a number of players including the international community itself, national police agencies, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and forensic and scientific experts. Collectively, these players attempt to prevent or prosecute crimes that specifically target wildlife, and deal with what is becoming an increasingly burgeoning global problem. T...

Genetic variation, inbreeding and chemical exposure--combined effects in wildlife and critical considerations for ecotoxicology.

Exposure to environmental chemicals can have negative consequences for wildlife and even cause localized population extinctions. Resistance to chemical stress, however, can evolve and the mechanisms include desensitized target sites, reduced chemical uptake and increased metabolic detoxification and sequestration. Chemical resistance in wildlife populations can also arise independently of expos...

Ecotoxicology.

Wildlife ecotoxicology of pesticides: can we track effects to the population level and beyond?

During the past 50 years, the human population has more than doubled and global agricultural production has similarly risen. However, the productive arable area has increased by just 10%; thus the increased use of pesticides has been a consequence of the demands of human population growth, and its impact has reached global significance. Although we often know a pesticide's mode of action in the...

Continuing Efforts in Global Chronic Disease Prevention

This issue of Preventing Chronic Disease (PCD) illustrates some of the breadth of work in chronic disease prevention being undertaken throughout the world. The wide range of activity includes health promotion, descriptive epidemiology, behavioral risk-factor surveillance, and purely exploratory and descriptive research. The emphasis of this issue is on efforts being made in economically lessdev...