Launching Guidelines to Facilitate Safe Trade Across the Wildlife-Livestock Interface

On January 15 at 3:00 PM Moscow time, WOAH will host a webinar to launch the WOAH Guidelines “Mitigating Disease Transmission Risk at the Wildlife-Livestock Interface to Facilitate Safe Trade”.

Transboundary animal diseases (TADs), such as African swine fever (ASF), avian influenza (AI) and foot and mouth disease (FMD) continue to spread worldwide, with serious consequences for animal health, trade and livelihoods. In many countries where these diseases are endemic, infections can pass between wild and domestic animals, sustaining infection transmission cycles that are difficult to control because of the complex factors and risk pathways involved.

For some diseases, WOAH standards allow the recognition of animal health status in effectively separated subpopulations and require that Members do not ban international livestock trade solely in response to disease occurrences in wildlife.

These guidelines offer practical approaches for reducing the risk of disease spillover between wildlife and livestock populations, applicable across a range of farming systems. They present a structured methodology to support Veterinary Services in managing any wildlife-livestock interface scenarios through customised risk mitigation programmes, with interventions tailored to local conditions.

To present these guidelines, the launch webinar will be offered in English. The registration link is below. The guidelines will also be made available in French and Spanish in due course.

Agenda