Healthy planet healthy people

Abstract

One Health is a cross‐sectoral and transdisciplinary approach that emphasizes the fundamental ways in which the health of humans, domestic and wild animals, fungi, plants, microbes, and natural and built ecosystems are interdependent. One Health approaches recognize the links between human health and a range of environmental concerns including biodiversity, climate, freshwater, food, harmful chemicals, and healthy oceans. Yet the conservation community and its broad interest in biodiversity and the natural world has been notably lacking in discussions about One Health. Partly as a result, both policy and practice have been narrowly focused on one or a few links between human and other healths, such as the human and wildlife health nexus. We provide a set of principles and components that will balance existing discussions by including the natural world and biodiversity and provide a framework for more active involvement by the conservation community. Incorporating these principles and components will enable One Health practice to guide inclusive, multidisciplinary, and cross‐sectoral efforts that consider the shared costs and benefits of human, animal, plant, and ecosystem health and help readjust humanity's pursuit of a green, just, and equitable sustainability pathway.

Essential planetary health workers: Positioning rangers within global policy

“…As with the COVID‐19 outbreak, over 60% of emerging infectious diseases are zoonoses (naturally transmissible from vertebrate animals to humans), reminding us that humans are inseparable from nature (Salyer et al., 2017). The One Health Approach understands that the health of humans, wildlife, and ecosystems are co‐dependent (Redford et al., 2022). The World Health Organization (WHO) recognizes the importance of protecting nature in preventing pandemics (WHO, 2020) and researchers suggest that primary pandemic prevention actions such as wildlife trade management and reduced deforestation would cost less than 1/20th of the value of lives lost each year to emerging viral zoonoses and would have substantial co‐benefits (Bernstein et al., 2022).…”

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“…Conservation-oriented organisations have also launched international policy efforts that emphasise connections between ecosystem and human health. Examples include the Convention on Biological Diversity Global Action Plan on Biodiversity and Health (CBD, 2017) and the "healthy planet, healthy people" framework (Redford et al, 2022) for the Global Environment Facility (GEF), a multi-donor trust fund for generating global environmental benefits. The IUCN is also taking One Health action, following resolution WCC_2020_ RES_135: "Promoting human, animal and environmental health, and preventing pandemics through the One Health approach and by addressing the drivers of biodiversity loss" (IUCN, 2020).…”