Study pinpoints 'win-win' solutions to protect human health and conserve ecosystems ncstate TheLancet
A far-reaching review of academic papers and reports evaluated 46 proposed"win-win" solutions for reducing human infectious disease burdens and advancing conservation goals, which now can be explored on a publicly available website. The study highlights diverse and widespread bright spots where there could be opportunities to simultaneously safeguard human and ecosystem health.
"We like to think of these solutions like options on a bespoke menu. To select and design a solution that meets your needs, you're going to need a lot of information. So we provide an evidence summary for each solution," Hopkins said."We also created a decision process that anyone can follow, so researchers and decision makers can design their own solutions or evaluate whether an existing solution will work in their situation.
The working group was funded by the Science for Nature and People Partnership after some team members had spent years studying human schistosomiasis in Africa—a debilitating disease caused by contacting water contaminated with parasites from snails. The snail population exploded when a river was dammed and prawns, which eat the snails, couldn't migrate. The potential solution? Introduce prawns back into the river.
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