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Cornell K. Lisa Yang Center
for Wildlife Health

July 2026

A rhino stands in tall grass

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Improving Rhino Health in Nepal

July 01, 2026
Carmen Smith ’17, DVM ’21, wildlife pathology fellow with the Cornell K. Lisa Yang Center for Wildlife Health, is working in the lowland forests of Nepal—home to nearly a quarter of the world’s greater one-horned rhinos—to investigate why rhino mortality has been increasing despite major reductions in poaching.
Rhino
Cornell K. Lisa Yang Center for Wildlife Health Free-Ranging Wildlife Pathology Fellow
Wildlife Pathology
Postdoctoral Fellow
Nepal
Nepal Wildlife
Greater One-horned Rhinoceros
Poaching
Wildlife Research
Nepal’s National Trust for Nature Conservation
Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation of Nepal
Agriculture and Forestry University
Grundium
Grundium Ocus
International Zoo Veterinary Group
Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability
Cornell K. Lisa Yang Center for Wildlife Health Postdoctoral Fellows
Wildlife Conservation
Wildlife
Wildlife Health
Histopathology
Pathology
invasive plants
Wildlife Veterinarian
Veterinary Medicine
Veterinarian
Anatomic Pathology
Necropsy