[Environment] WILDCOMS-Wildlife Disease & Contaminant Monitoring & Surveillance Network

疾病和污染物都对野生动物和人类构成重大风险。这是公认的，在英国有各种监测计划，监测野生动物疾病和/或污染物的发生和严重程度。这些计划相互补充而不是重复，但有许多共同的业务程序，因此可能面临类似的挑战。从每个监视方案中收集的信息被传达给广泛的最终用户。各种监测计划由不同的政府机构和实验室、研究中心、研究所和大学管理。这些计划的供资者同样是各种各样的政府部门、机构和工业。众多的研究人员和资助机构造成的一个关键困难是，它阻碍了计划之间的沟通。这些计划只有机会性和临时性机制来交流知识或制定共同的最佳做法，以促进样本和数据的共享。这种合作也可能因供资者在它们希望监督计划处理的优先事项方面存在分歧而受到阻碍。此外，由于每个方案基本上都是孤立地报告其调查结果，最终用户很难获得共同或广泛威胁的概述。该项目的主要目的是建立一个野生动物疾病和污染物监测和监督网络。这将为英国目前的九个污染物和疾病监测计划提供伙伴关系。该网络将促进和便利知识交流、协调最佳做法、协作和资源共享。它还将加强和扩大与最终用户的沟通以及最终用户之间的沟通，特别是将向最终用户提供关于环境疾病和污染物风险的全面概览。这将使新出现的危害和风险更容易、更快地被发现，并为制定更好、更及时的政策和条例提供所需的更综合的科学证据基础。在四个工作包中实现的具体目标将是：（i）通过定期伙伴会议建立和发展网络（ii）通过每年的利益攸关方论坛和通过将所有计划的调查结果整理成基于网络的季度公报，利用网络最大限度地将综合监测信息传达给广泛的最终用户（iii）制定统一的操作程序（样本收集、测量、数据记录和样本存档），这将促进各计划之间的共享和协作，并消除重复努力;（iv）为妇女发展和通信网络制定一个可持续的模式，并通过与欧洲主要伙伴和网络的联系将其范围扩大到欧洲范围，从而促进技能、专门知识、知识、样本和数据的共享，从而使可用资源的使用最大化。这将使整体资金效益更高，并促进新举措的发展。该网络将带来的好处可以概括为：（a）综合监测导致科学证据基础得到改善，管理者和决策者可据此评估对野生脊椎动物和人类健康的威胁（B）更好地长期管理、分享和传播样本，最佳做法和数据（c）一个公认的论坛，将促进监测计划和不同终端之间的讨论和合作，用户和利益相关者（d）通过科学出版物增加知识，提高对活动和标本档案的认识，从而增强英国的研究基础（e）对工业最终用户的好处，包括通过预防问题来避免成本的潜力（f）通过改进风险评估来提高生活质量

Disease and contaminants both pose major risks to wildlife and Man. This is well recognised and there are a variety of surveillance schemes in the UK that monitor wildlife for occurrence and severity of diseases and/or contaminants. These schemes complement rather than duplicate each other but share many operational procedures and so can face similar challenges. The information gathered from each surveillance scheme is communicated to a wide spectrum of end users. The various surveillance schemes are run by different government agencies and laboratories, research centres, institutes and Universities. The funders of the schemes are an equally diverse range of government departments, agencies and industry. A key difficulty caused by this myriad of researchers and funding organisations is that it hampers communication between schemes. The schemes only have opportunistic and ad hoc mechanisms to exchange knowledge or develop common best practices that would facilitate sharing of samples and data. Such cooperation can also be hampered by differences between funders in the priorities that they wish surveillance schemes to address. Furthermore, because each scheme reports its findings largely in isolation, it is difficult for end users to obtain an overview of common or widespread threats. The main aim of this project is to establish a Wildlife Disease & Contaminant Monitoring & Surveillance (WILDCOMS) network. This will provide a partnership between nine current UK contaminant and disease surveillance schemes. The network will foster and facilitate knowledge exchange, harmonisation towards best practice, collaboration and sharing of resources. It will also enhance and widen communication with and between end-users, and in particular will provide end-users with an holistic overview of environmental disease and contaminant risk. This should make identification of emerging hazards and risks easier and quicker to spot, and provide the more integrated scientific evidence base needed to formulate better and timely policy and regulation. The specific objectives, delivered in four work packages, will be: (i) to establish and develop the network through regular partners meetings (ii) to use the network to maximise communication of integrated surveillance information to a wide range of end-users through an annual Stakeholder Forum and through collation of findings from all schemes into web-based quarterly bulletins(iii) development towards harmonised operational procedures (sample collection, measurement, data recording and sample archiving) that will facilitate sharing and collaboration between schemes and eliminate duplication of effort (iv) to develop a sustainable model for WILDCOMS and extend its scope to a European scale through linkage with key European partners and networksWILDCOMS will thus facilitate sharing of skills, expertise, knowledge, samples and data, thereby maximising the use of available resources. This will result in better value for money overall and foster development of new initiatives. The benefits the network will deliver can be summarised as: (a) ntegrated surveillance leading to an improved scientific evidence base with which regulators and policy makers can assess threats to wild vertebrates and human health (b) better long term management, sharing and dissemination of samples, best practice and data (c) a recognised forum that will facilitate discussion and collaboration between surveillance schemes and different end-users and stakeholders (d) an enhanced UK research base by increasing knowledge through scientific publications and greater awareness of activities and specimen archives(e) benefits for industrial end users including potential for averting costs by preventing problems(f) benefits to quality of life to the through improved risk assessment