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A healthy future for wildlife, people, and planet.

Alina and Klara in lab
Wildlife Pathology
Collaboration
Serbia
Wild Ungulate
Kyrgyzstan
Partnerships
Wild Mountain Goat
Wild Mountain Sheep
Pathogen
Ilbirs Foundation
Ministry of Natural Resources
Ecology and Technical Supervision
Kyrgyz Research Institute of Veterinary named after A. Duisheev
Wild Sheep Foundation
Siberian Ibex
Argali Sheep
Remote Sampling
Laboratory Analysis
Diagnostic Tools
Biotehnika
Serology
Biotechnologist
Laboratory
Professional Development
Protocol Optimization
Brucellosis in Wildlife
Zoonotic Disease
Zoonotic Pathogen

Our Experience Working in the Biotehnika Laboratory in Kraljevo, Serbia: New Knowledge and Unforgettable Impressions

July 11, 2025
Collaboration with local professionals is an integral part of every international project undertaken by the Cornell K. Lisa Yang Center for Wildlife Health. In Kyrgyzstan, we have been working closely with our local collaborators...
Foggy landscape at sunrise
Wild Carnivores Where's Martin?
Dhole
Thailand
Phu Khiao Wildlife Sanctuary
Carnivore
Carnivore Populations
Wild Carnivores
Behavioral Research
Ecological Monitoring
Pathogen
capture
wildlife tracking
Thailand's Department of National Parks
Asian Wild Dogs
Asian Wildlife
Asiatic Wild Dog
Wildlife Career
Animal Disease

How to Catch a Dhole (or Not?) – Part 1

May 21, 2025 by Martin Gilbert
The sun had long since submerged beneath the tree line, and the Bueng Pan ranger station was settling in for the evening. Smoke from the kitchen fire drifted over the grassland, and a radio burbled away to itself happily in Thai....
Rhino in a river, almost submerged in the water
Wildlife Pathology
Rhino
Nepal
Chitwan National Park
Wildlife Pathology
Cornell K. Lisa Yang Center for Wildlife Health Fellow
Histopathology
Agriculture and Forestry University
Grundium Ocus
Greater One-horned Rhinoceros
Wildlife Mass Mortality
Vector-Borne Disease
Wildlife Research
Wildlife Diagnostics
Pathogen
Wildlife Conservation
National Trust for Nature Conservation
Nepal’s National Trust for Nature Conservation
Mosquito
invasive plants
Grundium

Lunching with Rhinos: Threats to Nepal’s Rhinos Have Been Consuming My Thoughts

April 23, 2025 by Carmen Smith
It was a misty morning on the outskirts of Chitwan National Park in Nepal, and I awoke after a night of little sleep broken by the sounds of dogs barking and roosters crowing....