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Ecosystem Health Mission in Band-e-Amir, May–June 2007
A Field Mission of the Ecosystem Health Component to Band-e-Amir in May–June 2007 Stéphane Ostrowski, Ali Madad Rajabi & Hafizullah Noori Afghanistan Ecosystem Health Team, WCS September 2007
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Between 27 May and 6 June 2007, the Afghanistan Ecosystem Health team of the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) undertook a field mission in the northeast of Band-e-Amir, a naturally created group of lakes in the Bamiyan Province. The survey had several objectives: 1/ collect data on livestock health and possible interactions of livestock with wildlife; 2/ study a recent case of fish die-off in Band-e-Gholaman, one of the lakes of Band-e-Amir; and 3/ record observations on wildlife. 1/ People living in Band-e-Amir are mostly sedentary farmers who live in small villages located around lakes. Only a minority of them are involved in herding and use the surrounding mountains as seasonal pastures, potentially bringing their livestock into contact with wildlife. We interviewed 27 of them about their livestock. They herded 876 sheep, 235 goats, 167 cattle heads, 18 horses and 90 donkeys. Livestock suffered from disorders including diarrhea, abscesses, skin problems, lameness, coughing, and heavy tick burdens. Shepherds also reported clinical symptoms compatible with those observed in Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD), contagious caprine pleuropneumonia, and glanders, all diseases that affected their livestock in the recent past. We performed 228 blood samples on sheep and goats and forwarded them to the Central Veterinary Laboratory (CVL) in Kabul for FMD, Peste des Petits Ruminants and brucellosis serological testing. Results are pending. We estimated annual mortality rate in the investigated subpopulation at 15–25% for sheep and goats,
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