Monitoring of diseases in wild plants and animals: a challenge to measure the success of environmental policies and management in Ecuador

Abstract

The monitoring of diseases in wild plants and animals is planted in the policies and the environmental management system of Ecuador, the monitoring these are essential to help prevent the spread of disease and protect the country's biodiversity. The objective is to carry out an analysis of the causes of the appearance of diseases in wild plants and animals, for which the bibliographic review was used as a methodology, where reliable and relevant sources of information were selected in specialized databases, and he monitoring was carried out through different strategies, such as epidemiological surveillance, sample collection and laboratory tests to detect the presence of pathogens In addition, it was assessed that the monitoring of emerging and re-emerging diseases in wild plants and animals is a necessary task for the early detection and control of diseases that can affect health, biodiversity and agricultural production. The result was that They must develop specific programs that allow collecting data in a systematic and coherent way so that the results allow training the people who live in these regions and thereby achieve better results in the monitoring of detected diseases.