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While we humans are known to destroy wildlife habitats and make life hard for animals, new research has now pointed out that by changing the land use patterns and introducing livestock in their ecosystem we are indirectly increasing the parasite diversity in their gastrointestinal system. However, more studies are needed to understand if this might affect their population decline.
The team looked at over 4,000 mammalian faecal samples collected from 19 forest fragments at the Anamalai Hills of the Western Ghats. These samples belonged to 23 mammalian species including tigers, deer, porcupines, liontailed macaques, giant squirrels and otters. By analysing the faecal samples, they concluded that the presence of plantations and livestock significantly increased the parasite diversity. The paper published in Scientific Reports says that this could be due to spillover from the livestock and humans. “By looking at the Natural History Museum parasite database, we noted that many of the parasites are known to infect humans. However, this doesn't necessarily mean that the people currently living in Anamalai Hills are currently infected,” explains Dr. Debapriyo Chakraborty, an independent disease ecologist and first author of the paper.
“We need to understand that these parasites can cause a broad range of infectious diseases and it is important to study the hostparasite interactions at a community level. Also, one host can have multiple parasites and vice versa,” says Dr. Chakraborty. “Before any new interventions like land use changes or habitat modification or being carried out complex health consequences of these largescale human activities should be kept in mind.” He adds that the One Heath approach needs to be used as parasites, their animal hosts and humans are a complex system which needs to be studied together. Also, some studies have shown that wildlife tends to congregate near human settlements. Herbivores such as deer may find the human settlements as a source of regular food and also as a safe zone where carnivores don't enter. This could also be a reason for pathogen spillover from livestock to wildlife. The group had shown previously that high parasite prevalence was one of the reasons for the decline of endangered liontailed macaque populations in small and degraded forest fragments in the Western Ghats.
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