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Video
April 30, 2025
You are never far from a leopard in rural Nepal! On his first night in the field, our Wild Carnivore Health Specialist Dr. Martin Gilbert captured this footage of a nocturnal visitor while testing camera traps behind his hotel room!
April 23, 2025
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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....
February 19, 2025
As the most recent awardee of a Cornell K. Lisa Yang Postdoctoral Fellowship in Wildlife Health, Kristina Ceres ‘15, PhD ‘22, DVM ‘24, aims to study disease dynamics in dholes and other endangered carnivores.
January 22, 2025
A meeting of wildlife conservationists to develop a National Species Action Plan for Dholes in Nepal was held from August 9-11, 2024. Also known as Asiatic wild dogs, dholes are a globally endangered species of wild canid that has been lost from more than 75% of its former range due to habitat destruction, loss of prey, persecution, and disease.
For Your Information
December 02, 2024
Researchers including Cornell's Dr. Martin Gilbert discuss how developing vaccines and vaccination programs for free-living endangered wildlife could help conservation efforts to prevent extinctions from disease threats.
Podcast
August 22, 2024
Tigers, leopards and now one-horned rhinos. Dr. Martin Gilbert studies them all. As a wildlife veterinarian and epidemiologist at Cornell, Dr. Gilbert has investigated infectious diseases and mysterious mass die-offs all over Asia. Check out this latest podcast featuring his work.
Podcast
June 13, 2024
On this Cornell Veterinary Podcast, Dr. Martin Gilbert discusses his decades-long experience working in the nonprofit sector and in academia on international wildlife conservation projects in settings as diverse as Greenland, Papua New Guinea and Madagascar.
Video
April 26, 2024
Cornell's Dr. Martin Gilbert gives a presentation on "Understanding and Managing Canine Distemper Virus as a Threat to Tiger Conservation" at Cornell University's Department of Natural Resources and the Environment in March 2024.
Video
April 12, 2024
In this eCornell keynote presentation, Dr. Martin Gilbert, Helen Lee, and Laura Bernert from the Cornell K. Lisa Yang Center for Wildlife Health share their fieldwork experiences in Asia and help illustrate how the health of wildlife and our own health and well-being are inextricably linked.
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February 07, 2024
The endangered dhole is a medium-sized canid that was historically distributed widely across East, Central, South and Southeast Asia. This latest study shows signs of population recovery in various areas of Nepal and highlights the challenges they continue to face.