GOSTU Operational Group: Supra-autonomous Tuberculosis
- Type Operational group
- Execution 2019 -2021
- Assigned Budget 444.167,73 €
- Scope Supraautonómico
- Autonomous community Andalucía; Asturias, Principado de; Castilla y León; Castilla - La Mancha; Extremadura
- Main source of financing PEPAC 2014-2020
- Project website https://fundacionartemisan.com/investigacion/grupo-gostu/#:~:text=El%20Grupo%20…
Description
Comprehensive management of animal tuberculosis from a "One Health" perspective with innovative biosecurity measures for livestock farms, wildlife management, advanced environmental diagnostics, and transfer of available knowledge.
Objectives
- Transfer knowledge and technologies related to the control of health risks to livestock farms.
- Promote and establish protocols for the certification and health accreditation of extensive livestock farms and maximize the understanding and use of livestock sanitation campaigns.
- Promote good hunting and natural space management practices and involve hunters and administrations in controlling the overabundance of wild ungulates.
- Make profitable livestock farming compatible with the use of its surroundings.
- Create a network of specialists at a national level to advise livestock farmers and game managers on how to optimise the health of wild and domestic animals.
Results
- Reduction in disease prevalence rates and improved farm economic performance.
- Establishment of a systematic protocol for certifying livestock farms based on their health status.
- Establishment of sustainable population levels of wild ungulates from a health perspective.
- Design and publication of a joint comprehensive management strategy against animal tuberculosis.
- Establishment of a group of 10 specialist advisors on shared diseases.
Contact information
- Coordinator/entity name: ARTEMISAN FOUNDATION
- Coordinator/entity email: director@fundacionartemisan.com
Collaborators
- Federación Española de la Dehesa (FEDEHESA)
- Unión de Ganaderos de Vacas Nodrizas (UGAVAN)
- Sociedad Cooperativa Andaluza Ganadera del Valle de los Pedroches (COVAP)
- Real Federación Española de Caza
Beneficiaries
- Fundación Artemisan
- Asociación Agraria de Jovenes Agricultores ASAJA
- Federación Española de Asociaciónes Ganado Selecto (FEAGAS)
- Asociación Interprofesional de la Carne de Caza Silvestre ASICCAZA
- APROCA Extremadura
- Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegeticos IREC
- Centro de Vigilancia Sanitaria Veterinaria de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid VISAVET
- Asociación de Propietarios Rurales para la Gestion Cinegetica y Conservacion del Medio Ambiente (APROCA)
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