In the News
October 22, 2026
Migrating birds that breed in the Arctic are spreading avian influenza to polar bears in eastern Greenland, according to a new study that found evidence of infections in bear blood samples acquired from Greenland Inuit subsistence hunters.
October 20, 2026
As a recent recipient of a Cornell K. Lisa Yang Postdoctoral Fellowship in Wildlife Health, Dr. Jaime Ortiz Pachar aims to create a genomic basis for sustainable ecosystem management of Galápagos coastal mangrove forests.
October 12, 2026
Though I feared the rain would muffle my call, seconds later I heard the tinkling bear bell, followed by a feathery flag whirling above the shrubs—that is, the tail of a very special dog....
October 12, 2026
Dr. Wendy Leuenberger, a quantitative ecologist and a K. Lisa Yang Postdoctoral Fellow in Wildlife Health, is aiming to evaluate whether state and regional neonicotinoid regulations are successfully reversing pollinator declines.
News
October 08, 2026
Like a dark cloud of pestilence spreading across the globe in a science fiction movie, a highly contagious, fatal strain of avian influenza is continuing its death march across the globe, infecting wild birds, poultry, dairy cattle, and mammals from pole-to-pole, sometimes with massive mortalities.
September 11, 2026
The Australian Antarctic Division has made an unprecedented and controversial decision to evacuate its research station on a remote sub-Antarctic island for fear that a highly pathogenic strain of H5N1 avian flu known as 2.3.4.4b will soon reach its shores....
Blog
September 10, 2026
Even in retirement, Dr. Rodman Getchell still had 60 round goby samples waiting in a university freezer....
September 10, 2026
Australia’s Macquarie Island is a haven for species such as elephant and fur seals, penguins, albatrosses and petrels, and a key site for wildlife researchers. But it is not safe from H5N1 bird flu.
August 10, 2026
The 2026 cohort of Cornell K. Lisa Yang Postdoctoral Fellows in Wildlife Health is poised to restore mangrove ecosystems in the Galápagos, improve chronic waste disease surveillance, and protect the pollinators that underpin global food systems.
August 10, 2026
For the first time in recorded history, in recent years, avian flu reached Antarctica, threatening animals in an already fragile ecosystem....