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Victoria stands next to a large screen with a PowerPoint slide that says "WDA Welcome to the 73rd Annual International Conference of the Wildlife Disease Association"
Planetary Health The Student Experience
Oil Spill
Oil Spill Mitigation
Wildlife Disease Association
WDA
Seabird
University of California, Davis, School of Veterinary Medicine
Conservation
Conservation and Community
Student
Cornell K. Lisa Yang Center for Wildlife Health’s Student Support Fund
Student Support
Student Support Fund
Alumni
Cornell alumni
Career
Career Pathway
Veterinary Career
Jane Goodall
Jane Goodall Institute
Engaged Cornell
One Health
One Health: Conservation with Communities
Chimpanzee
Disease Surveillance
College of Veterinary Medicine
Veterinarian
Wildlife Veterinarian
Emerging Pathogens
Uganda

Presenting, Collaborating, and Learning at the Wildlife Disease Association Conference

March 02, 2026 by Victoria Priester
The phone rings. There are 3,500 shorebirds suspected to be affected by the crude oil spill. This was a fictional but realistic scenario I faced on my first day at the 2025 Wildlife Disease Association Conference in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada....
Brenna is on the ground writing things on a clipboard as another person monitors a lion that is sedated on the ground.
Wild Carnivores The Student Experience
Victoria Falls Wildlife Trust
Zambezi
Lion
Expanding Horizons
Cornell Expanding Horizons
Expanding Horizons Program
GPS Collaring
wildlife tracking
Student
Student Experience
Student Experiential Learning
Veterinary Student
KAZA
Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area
GPS
Hippo Creek
Human-lion conflict
Human-Wildlife Conflict
Conservation Genetics
Genetic Samples
Poaching
Environmental Justice
Conservation and Community
Southern Ground Hornbill
Hwange National Park
Endangered Specied Conservation
Bird
Student Learning
Einaudi Center for International Studies

Comprehensive Conservation with Victoria Falls Wildlife Trust

January 05, 2026
March ended in quite a spectacular way for me this year. I began the month sitting in classrooms at Cornell University’s College of Veterinary Medicine and ended it out in the Zimbabwean bush, drawing blood from a sedated lion under a nighttime African sky....