In the News
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...
Video
June 26, 2025
Dr. Carmen Smith, our Free-Ranging Wildlife Pathology Fellow, was reviewing tissue samples at the National Trust for Nature Conservation Biodiversity Conservation Center in Chitwan, Nepal, when a curious greater one-horned rhino came closer to inspect his work.
Announcement
June 11, 2025
We are pleased to announce that our 2025-2026 call for Cornell K. Lisa Yang Postdoctoral Fellowships in Wildlife Health is now out! Applications due October 6, 2025.
Video
May 16, 2025
While conducting fieldwork to safeguard the future of rhinos, Dr. Martin Gilbert, wildlife veterinarian and epidemiologist, encountered this greater one-horned rhino enjoying the water in Chitwan National Park, Nepal.
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....
April 10, 2025
Moving endangered rhinos to new areas is a vital part of their conservation. War-torn helicopters from the Vietnam War are airlifting the creatures upside down to safety based on research pioneered by Cornell researchers.
April 09, 2025
The Fossil Rim Wildlife Center plays an important role in efforts to save wildlife species from extinction. I was fortunate enough to travel to Glen Rose, Texas for a preceptorship to experience these conservation efforts firsthand....
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.
Announcement
May 15, 2024
Check out this new opportunity for our next generation of wildlife health / One Health leaders!