The Forgotten Gatekeepers of One Health
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The One Health approach has gained increasing prominence as a framework that recognizes the interdependence of human, animal, and environmental health. It is an integrated, unifying approach to balance and optimize the health of people, animals, plants and ecosystems. It uses the close, interdependent links between these fields to create new surveillance and disease control methods. In India, where biodiversity hotspots coexist with dense human and livestock populations, successful implementation of One Health requires active engagement with communities that live at the human- animal-ecosystem interface. Among these, the Van Gujjars, a semi-nomadic pastoralist community inhabiting the forests of the Shivalik region across Uttarakhand and adjoining states represent an underrecognized yet strategically important stakeholder.
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