There is an immediate need in Mexico to expand primary care providers' knowledge of Rb and to expand and upgrade current Rb programs to meet the needs of the population adequately. Diagnosis and care of Rb patients in Mexico can also be improved by the establishment of a national Rb registry and a national early detection program, and by increased use of the national treatment protocol.
In Oaxaca there are several areas with forest management, the Capulalpam de Mendez, District of Ixtlán is one of them. This economic activity can affect mammals diversity directly. An evaluation was carried out by transecting this richness in two areas, one preserved and another in forest management. We obtained a list of medium and large mammals in these two areas, where the presence of four species of felidae (66% of those registered to Oaxaca) was important and three of them, including the Cougar (Puma concolor) in the area of forest management. The analysis of the data allows us to infer that the combination of forest management areas with those related to conservation contributes so that the decline of mammal species is not as affected in other sites of Oaxaca.
Traditional ecological knowledge involves local people's beliefs and values, and also the ecology, conservation and sustainability importance. As part of this knowledge, mammals have been fundamental in the development of human groups because of their ecological, cultural and economic values. Traditional knowledge about mammals on a particular region can be obtained through ethnozoological studies, whose can contribute to set conservation and management strategies in benefit of local people and mammal species. An ethnozoological study about wild mammals was carried out in Santo Domingo Tonala, Oaxaca, during the first semester of 2011, where the white tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) was the species with more stories, beliefs and uses among local people. Here we present the data obtained for this mammalian species, highlighting the importance of traditional knowledge for the fauna conservation.
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