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Faculty from the Janet L. Swanson Wildlife Hospital traveled to Nanjing, China, for the third annual Wildlife Rescue Veterinary Training event. Dr. Sara Childs-Sanford and Dr. Cynthia Hopf-Dennis joined Chinese and other international veterinary experts to exchange cutting-edge international practices in wildlife rescue and medicine.
Three elephant seals laying together on the sand.

Ever since a deadly strain of avian influenza, H5N1, killed some 17,000 southern elephant seal pups on South American coastlines in 2023 and 2024, researchers and public officials have kept an extra-close eye on California’s northern elephant seals...
Krysten Schuler stands in a lab setting while speaking.

On Feb. 25, the Animal Health Diagnostic Center hosted a chronic wasting disease lecture and wet lab for the College of Veterinary Medicine community, in collaboration with the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets....
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Restoring traditional herding practices in northern Botswana keeps livestock safe from predators and diseases, reduces retaliatory killings of lions, and offers hope for restoring wildlife corridors.
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Announcement

Mark your calendar for our biggest online fundraising event of the year on Thursday, March 12. Cornell Giving Day brings together friends, alumni, faculty, staff, and students to do the greatest good. Discover how you can support our mission—and help spread the word.
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Podcast

Dr. Steve Osofsky shares how a potential paradigm shift in southern African livestock disease management has extraordinary implications for wildlife conservation.
Dr. Amandine Gamble walks along the shore surrounded by penguins.

From the islands of the Subantarctic to the dairy farms of the northeastern U.S., Dr. Amandine Gamble is on a mission to learn how different wildlife species contribute to disease transmission networks.
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Video

Dr. Krysten Schuler, wildlife disease ecologist and director of the Cornell Wildlife Health Lab, dives into the biological, social, and political facets of chronic wasting disease, exploring areas where progress can be made if we are willing to forge into new territory.
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Blog

When I got selected to participate in Dr. Robin Radcliffe’s summer experiential learning course in Indonesia, I had no idea what to expect. All I knew for sure was that I was going to Indonesia for eight weeks, and that critically endangered Sumatran rhinos would be involved....
Several chickens.

Life-saving lessons come from understanding diseases shared by wildlife and humans.