A training manual on vertebrate pest management

This training manual, compiled from a series of lectures given at the National Agricultural Research Centre in Islamabad, provides a substantive guide to vertebrate pest management in the country. While written primarily for the Pakistani context, much of the material is general and should prove useful to workers in adjacent countries of the South Asian region. The manual contains 36 chapters, each dealing with a specific aspect of vertebrate pest management. The first 5 chapters discuss general principles of vertebrate pest management. The remaining chapters describe diseases borne by vertebrate pests (1 chapter) and the major vertebrate pests: rodents (19 chapters); minor lagomorph pests (Afghan pika and desert hare -- 2 chapters); wild boar (4 chapters), and birds (5 chapters). Indexes of subjects and of scientific names are included.