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Advancing One Health: Protecting People, Gorillas, and the Land on which They Live

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News Security Beat

Publication Date
2020-02-19

In 2003, a scabies skin disease outbreak affecting mountain gorillas in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park was traced to people living around the national park—people with limited access to basic health and social services. To protect the people and wildlife of this special park, we launched Conservation Through Public Health (CTPH), an NGO that promotes biodiversity conservation by enabling people, gorillas, and other wildlife to coexist harmoniously through improved health and wellbeing.

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https://www.newsecuritybeat.org/2020/02/advancing-health-protecting-people-gorillas-land-live/