In the News
June 05, 2025
As a young child, an eager zoo camper, and later a teen volunteer at the Maryland Zoo in my hometown of Baltimore, I was always drawn to the lemurs in the zoo’s collection...
May 21, 2025
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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....
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 26, 2025
On World Veterinary Day this year, we are celebrating Cornell's wildlife and ecosystem health teams and their tireless efforts to build a healthier future for wildlife, people, and planet.
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.
September 19, 2024
A new study from Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine researchers finds the first genetic evidence of feline coronavirus transmission between a captive wild and a domestic cat.
Announcement
September 17, 2024
After an international search, Carmen R. Smith ’17, DVM ’21, has been selected as the inaugural Cornell K. Lisa Yang Center for Wildlife Health Free-Ranging Wildlife Pathology Fellow, who will focus on unraveling the causes and conditions responsible for unexplained wildlife mortality events around the world.
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.