LACANET project

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From 2014 to 2018, the European Union-funded LACANET (Laos Cambodia One Health Network) project made significant progress in establishing, in both countries, the first surveillance systems for wildlife diseases and mortality. In Cambodia, the surveillance network included 18 protected areas and two wildlife rescue centers, and trained over 190 government and non-government field staff. In Lao PDR, wildlife health surveillance has been deployed in five provinces, covering Nam Et Phou Louey and Nam Kading protected areas. They have allowed the investigation of over 275 wildlife morbidity and mortality events, allowing the identification of severe threats to wildlife, of sometimes great significance to public health. Building on the strength of these outcomes, the LACANET project partners worked with the governments of each countries on the co-development of wildlife health surveillance strategies with the Ministries of Agriculture and Forestry, and Ministries of Environment. High level workshops in each country gathered representatives from multiple ministries to define priorities for wildlife health surveillance, and to discuss their potential contribution to surveillance efforts. This resulted in the development and drafting of Standard Operating Procedures for wildlife disease surveillance to be further discussed and adopted by these ministries in cooperation with other One Health stakeholders.

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WildHealthNet initiative

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Between 2019 and 2022, the Defense and Threat Reduction Agency of the US Department of Defense supported an expansion of these surveillance efforts at the national level in Cambodia, Lao PDR and Viet Nam. In each country, WCS supported the national governments to define priorities, structure their surveillance network, and implement surveillance to reach their objectives, and develop the policy framework to ensure sustainability of the surveillance networks. 

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This video provide an overview of the WildHealthNet project in Southeast Asia. And this page provides a full list of resources produced by the project.

In addition, multiple peer review articles report on the outcome of the surveillance activities:

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