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A healthy future for wildlife, people, and planet.

Two wildlife workers handle a tranquilized animal beside a large metal crate labeled "WARNING WILD ANIMALS" in a dry grassland, with mountains in the background and a red helicopter flying in the sky.
Aquatic Animal Health The Student Experience
Conservation Biology
Wildlife
Conservation
Jake Holshuh
Cornell K. Lisa Yang Center for Wildlife Health’s Student Support Fund
Student
Free-ranging Wildlife Conservation
UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine
Externship
Veterinary Externship
University of California, Davis, School of Veterinary Medicine
California Department of Fish and Wildlife
Wildlife Health Lab
Aerial Darting
UC Berkeley California Wolf Project
grey wolf
Population Health
One Health
Wildlife Disease
Wildlife Toxicology
Point Reyes National Seashore
Disease Ecology
Human-Wildlife Conflict
Oiled Wildlife Care Network
Oil Spill
UC Santa Cruz
Marine Wildlife
Wildlife Veterinarian
Wildlife Pathology
Applied Research
Monterey Bay Aquarium
Elephant Seals

A Snapshot of California’s Wildlife Work

September 25, 2025
In an ever-changing society, the roles of biologists and veterinarians remain essential in the conservation of wildlife and biodiversity more broadly....
A rhinoceros walking through dry grassland with dense green shrubs and trees in the background, under a partly cloudy sky.
Beyond Fences
Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability
Greater One-horned Rhinoceros
African Savanna
Crocodile Bridge Rest Camp
Savanna Science Network Meeting
Kruger National Park
Rhino
Rhinos
Poaching
Ecosystem
Free-ranging Wildlife Conservation
Biodiversity
Biodiversity Conservation
Ecologist
Aerial Darting
African Wildlife
Black Rhino
One-Horned Rhino
Threatened Species
One Health

My Rhinoceros Teacher

July 02, 2025 by Margaret Swift
As dawn yawns and stretches over the African savanna, a line of cars waits impatiently at the wooden gate of Crocodile Bridge Rest Camp. I join the tail end in my tiny white rental car...
A Calfornia Condor shown spreading it's wings while standing on a rock; Ken Bohn/San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance.
Zoological Medicine The Student Experience
San Diego Wildlife Alliance
Zoological Medicine
Endangered Species
Zoo Veterinarians
Aerial Darting
Veterinary Medicine
Veterinary Student

An Action-Packed Externship with the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance

December 06, 2023
Thanks to lifted pandemic restrictions and funding from both the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance and the Cornell Wildlife Health Center Student Support Fund, I was able to travel to the opposite side of the country for the last six weeks of my clinical year for an externship at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park in California....