Dear Wildlife Data Integration Network,
The Wildlife Data Integration Network (WDIN) provides quality and innovative products and
services that contribute significantly to the advancement of knowledge about wildlife disease.
WDIN tools are informative and applicable for those interested in effective management of
wildlife populations, in addition to providing insight for multidisciplinary research topics, including
climate change, zoonotic diseases, disease ecology and ecosystem health, and biosurveillance.
In particular, I find the following WDIN products and services valuable because....
What products and services do you use and why do you find them useful (e.g. valuable for
situational awareness, staying up to date on wildlife disease developments, a source of wildlife
health news that you cannot get elsewhere, the data/information made available supports your
work/research)?
A summary list of WDIN’s products/services
● Wildlife Health Event Reporter - www.wher.org
● Wildlife Disease News Digest - wdin.blogspot.com
● Wildlife Disease Journal Digest - wdin.blogspot.com/search/label/Journal Digest
● Global Wildlife Disease News Map - www.wdin.org/newsmap
● WDIN’s Event Calendar - www.wdin.org/c&aevents.jsp
● WDIN’s Professional Announcement Webpage - wdin.blogspot.com/p/proflannouncements.html
In the future, I would like to see the following developments for the WDIN project:
What modifications or additions would you like to see for WDIN and its various
products/services that would help to meet your wildlife health information needs? (Enhance
WHER’s capacity for alerts and communication of wildlife health incidences, mobile WHER
reporting, expand the scope of the News Digest to include news/information on the following
topic, develop wildlife health data standards for effective data sharing and exchange)?
WDIN provides data and information, which is applicable to a broad audience. The unique and
innovative approaches to wildlife health data aggregation and dissemination provide practical
and useful information that is not available through any other sources.
I am interested and supportive of the team finding ways to sustain their work and pursue future
developments that would benefit not only WDIN’s community of users, but also those outside
the community who are aided by the knowledge gained through the information freely
distributed by WDIN for the communal good (e.g. spur economic growth, advance disease
prevention, ensure biodiversity).
Sincerely,