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A healthy future for wildlife, people, and planet.

Sage examining a sedated cheetah
The Student Experience
Extinction
Disease Prevention
Black Rhino
Darting
herd management
Wildlife Conservation
Wildlife Populations
IUCN
Fossil Rim
Fossil Rim Wildlife Center
Captive Breeding
Endangered Species Breeding
Wildlife Behavior
Reproduction
Reproductive Medicine
Reproductive Biology
Neonics

A Semi-Free-Ranging Approach to Wildlife Conservation

April 09, 2025
The Fossil Rim Wildlife Center plays an important role in efforts to save wildlife species from extinction. I was fortunate enough to travel to Glen Rose, Texas for a preceptorship to experience these conservation efforts firsthand....
Kristina Ceres in Tasmania.
Wild Carnivores The Student Experience
Marsupial
Tasmania
Tasmanian Devil
Endangered Species
Disease Transmission
Extinction
Conservation
Wildlife Conservation
University of Tasmania Menzies Institute for Research
Immunology
Echidna
Wombat
Rehabilitation
Wildlife Rehabilitation
Wallaby
Cornell K. Lisa Yang Center for Wildlife Health’s Student Support Fund
Wildlife Vaccination
Student Experience
Student Experiential Learning
Tasmanian Wildlife

Tackling Transmissible Cancers: Innovations in Tasmanian Devil Conservation

July 26, 2024
In October 2023, I had the opportunity to travel to Tasmania, the island state of Australia, to learn more about one of its most iconic species, the Tasmanian devil. Tasmanian devils are the world’s largest carnivorous marsupials, and they play a key ecological role as scavengers and in suppressing populations of invasive species....