Wildlife Health, Conservation Environmental Challenges
Some of the benefits include:
- provides environmental enrichment for captive zoo animals and can assist with wildlife rehabilitation
- offers another tool in understanding habitats and ecosystems
- offers a more synergistic relationship between human beings and nature
- preserving biological diversity
- could contribute towards the management and prevention of animal diseases for wildlife, livestock and domestic animals
- can highlight the medicinal needs and requirements of wild free-roaming animals and help critically assess the suitability of their habitat if there is disease or illness
- provide more radical thinking in setting research agendas and developing implementation strategies in its approach to controlling and management of animal-borne diseases
- identification of species and their therapeutic botanical needs can contribute as indicators for ecological networks that go beyond food webs and environmental change assessment