The study, in the JournalofAppliedEcology, seems to confirm findings in wild trials, that selective culling of sick animals is ineffectual at stopping the spread of the disease.
But encroaching agriculture and insects threaten to kill off most of the region's boswellia within the next 50 years, according to a study published this week in the JournalofAppliedEcology by a team of Dutch and Ethiopian ecologists.