[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威胁。这是公认的，在英国有各种各样的监测计划，监测野生动物的发生和疾病和/或污染物的严重程度。这些方案相互补充而不是重复，但有许多共同的操作程序，因此可能面临类似的挑战。从每个监测方案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。这些计划的资助者同样来自不同的政府部门、机构和行业。如此众多的研究人员和资助组织造成的一个关键困难是，它阻碍了项目之间的沟通。这些计划只有机会主义和临时机制来交换知识或制定共同的最佳做法，以促进样本和数据的共享。这种合作也可能因资助者在希望监测计划解决的优先事项上存在分歧而受到阻碍。此外，由于每个方案在很大程度上都是孤立地报告其发现，因此最终用户很难获得对常见或广泛威胁的概述。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与监测（WILDCOMS）网络。这将在英国现有的9个污染物和疾病监测计划之间建立伙伴关系。该网络将促进和促进知识交流、协调最佳实践、协作和资源共享。它还将加强和扩大与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。这将使识别新出现的危害和风险更容易和更快地发现，并提供制定更好和及时的政策和法规所需的更综合的科学证据基础。具体目标分为四个工作包，将是：(i)通过定期合作伙伴会议建立和发展该网络；（ii）通过年度利益攸关方论坛和将所有计划的发现整理成基于网络的季度公报，利用该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)将促进计划之间的共享和协作，消除重复工作（iv）为WILDCOMS开发可持续模式，并通过与欧洲主要合作伙伴和网络的联系将其范围扩展到欧洲规模。WILDCOMS将因此促进技能，专业知识，知识，样本和数据的共享，从而最大限度地利用可用资源。这将带来更好的整体价值，并促进新举措的发展。该网络将带来的好处可以概括为：(a)综合监测可改善科学证据基础，使监管机构和决策者能够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、共享和传播样本；最佳实践和数据(c)一个公认的论坛，将促进监测方案与不同最终用户和利益相关者之间的讨论和合作(d)通过科学出版物和对活动和标本档案的更大认识增加知识，增强英国的研究基地(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