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An elephant standing in a grassy field with another elephant in the background.

A new paper by Dr. Steve Osofsky and team was recently selected for the Editor’s Choice honor by the journal CABI One Health. The selected publication discusses the AHEAD program’s work over the past two decades.
Elephants in KAZA

A new paper in the journal CABI One Health captures a pioneering One Health effort that reinforces the reality that meaningful policy change across sectors often takes significant time and patience.
K. Lisa Yang

A transformational gift from philanthropist and Cornell alumna K. Lisa Yang ’74 will endow and rename the Cornell Wildlife Health Center as the Cornell K. Lisa Yang Center for Wildlife Health at the College of Veterinary Medicine.
A small herd of elephants in a river.

Video

Enjoy these beautiful wild elephants in Chobe National Park, Botswana - part of the KAZA (Kavango Zambezi) Transfrontier Conservation Area - where we're working to restore key wildlife migration corridors.
A herd of Zebra on the African plain with text overlay stating "Ancestral Migrations Stopped at Fencelines"

Announcement

The Cornell Wildlife Health Center is honored to be featured in Cornell's first Global Grand Challenge - Migrations: Researching, Teaching and Building for a World on the Move, through our One Health partnerships and solutions.
A herd of wildebeest shown crossing a road

Botswana's Department of Veterinary Services and Cornell's AHEAD Program have completed a comprehensive road map that offers real hope for local farmers and wildlife impacted by animal disease.
Zebras

Our team is working with southern African partners to implement an alternative approach to beef production in places where foot and mouth disease virus resides naturally in wildlife, assisting poor farmers while allowing for a potential reassessment of disease control fences that have blocked key wildlife migration routes for generations.
Wild buffalo on African plain

For generations, international trade practices have dictated that rural southern Africans cannot protect nearby wildlife and, at the same time, farm cattle because of animal disease concerns....
Workshop attendees

Announcement

Our work with southern African partners to reconcile decades of conflict between the livestock and wildlife sectors continues to progress. Proceedings are now available from the "Working towards a Win-Win Solution for Livestock Agriculture & Wildlife Conservation in Ngamiland, Botswana" forum held in partnership with the Government of Botswana.
Cheetah in the wild

During Cornell University's Reunion 2017, the Cornell Wildlife Health Center held a "talk show" launch event, hosted by Provost Michael I. Kotlikoff and featuring our novel approach to wildlife conservation and the challenges of saving wildlife and wild places.