Biologists may also be able to use it to
monitor wildlife mortality rates and to identify disease outbreaks.
Not exact matches
No sure
mortality estimates exist for the practice, but a report (pdf) issued by the
wildlife trade —
monitoring organization TRAFFIC estimates that 30 to 55 percent of all birds that enter the
wildlife trade do not survive.
Following previous outbreaks of the virus in northeastern Gabon and in the northwest of the Republic of the Congo in 2001, the Gabonese and Congolese ministries of forestry and environment, along with several
wildlife organizations, implemented a temporary Animal
Mortality Monitoring Network.