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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...
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....