Publications by authors named "C Sillero-Zubiri"
Intensive disease surveillance in an endangered population of Ethiopian wolves provided evidence of concurrent outbreaks of rabies and canine distemper viruses in 2019, including co-infection in an individual animal. Disease surveillance and intensive monitoring of wolf packs in Ethiopia were essential in detecting the concurrent outbreaks and enabled accurate assessment of disease from both pathogens. The study highlights the risk posed to endangered populations that are susceptible to, or live in areas with, reservoir hosts for canine distemper and rabies viruses.
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- The 2020 megafires in the Brazilian Pantanal devastated 43% of unburned land, leading to mass wildlife mortality and significant changes in mammal species' habitat use.
- Of the eight mammal species studied post-fire, six showed declining occupancy, with the giant armadillo suffering the steepest drop, while jaguars experienced increased habitat use and stable density.
- The findings suggest that megafires negatively impact species distribution and emphasize the need for broader research to understand long-term population trends in affected areas.
It is time to acknowledge and overcome conservation's deep-seated systemic racism, which has historically marginalized Black, Indigenous and people of colour (BIPOC) communities and continues to do so. We describe how the mutually reinforcing 'twin spheres' of conservation science and conservation practice perpetuate this systemic racism. We trace how institutional structures in conservation science (e.
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