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A healthy future for wildlife, people, and planet.

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....