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Zebra-Scented Collars On Cattle Prevent Sleeping Sickness – Impacts On Land Use Are Good & Bad

Tanzanian Zebra . Image credit: National Geographic, excerpted. Researchers at the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology have developed a cattle collar which will be tested on Masai herds subject to the biting tsetse fly, and hence prone to catching sleeping sickness — “up to three million cattle die each year from the disease.” SciDevNet reports that there could be conservation benefits if the c… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Zebra-Scented Collars On Cattle Prevent Sleeping Sickness – Impacts On Land Use Are Good & Bad