Sentences with phrase «wildlife health»

Through innovative research projects, we contribute new information to the field of wildlife medicine that improves our ability to care for our patients as well as our understanding of wildlife health.

When considering issues affecting wildlife health, cancer doesn't immediately come to mind.

This person will be responsible for training a minimum of four trainees annually with the primary focus on international wildlife health.

Morris Animal Foundation is currently working with wildlife scientists to determine needs for wildlife health research that will result from the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and is prepared to grant money to research the long - term effects a disaster such as this could cause to native and endangered wildlife.

Dr. Freeman then completed a master's degree at Columbia University with a focus on wildlife health and parasitology.

«Funding for wildlife health research is miniscule compared to human health, and it's important that the Foundation continues to lead the way in funding critical research to help vulnerable species like the koala have long, healthy lives.»

«It is such an honor to contribute to a fund that can rapidly address wildlife health needs in times of crisis.»

Grants through the fund in amounts between $ 5,000 and $ 50,000 will enable wildlife researchers and veterinarians worldwide to respond quickly to disease outbreaks and other potentially devastating wildlife health issues.

The total death count runs to more than a million animals, leading the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to describe white - nose syndrome as «the worst wildlife health crisis in memory.»

Through this fund, we hope to provide researchers with much needed funds to act quickly to address wildlife health needs in times of crisis.»

Work with the WCS Chief Veterinarian, Clinicians, and Pathologists to formulate zoological and wildlife health policy.

Officials say the coyote was placed in a crate and taken to the DEC's wildlife health lab outside Albany for evaluation.

Denver — In times of wildlife health emergencies, Morris Animal Foundation — and Betty White — are there to help.

Donating to the Betty White Wildlife Rapid Response Fund provides individuals and corporations with an opportunity to support wildlife conservation efforts by ensuring that funds are available to provide a rapid response to unexpected wildlife health crises.

Morris Animal Foundation, committed to solving critical health problems of animals around the world, announces 15 new wildlife health research grants totaling nearly $ 1 million.

Specialty areas in the department include wildlife health, infectious diseases, metabolic diseases, genetics / genomics, neuroscience, cardiovascular science, and immunology.

In the new study, a team lead by Isabelle - Anne Bisson, a conservation biologist with the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Washington D.C., set out to assess whether information on wildlife health could be used to predict the emergence of disease in humans.

Steve Osofsky, executive director for wildlife health and health policy at the Wildlife Conservation Society, likened humanity's development to an airliner.

Although the falling populations can't be definitively attributed to Russia's political instability without stronger evidence, the findings do draw attention to the important connection between social welfare and wildlife health, the authors report online this month in Conservation Biology.

Greater awareness about the overlap of human, livestock and wildlife health on shared lands underlies many of these projects.

«I think this particular strain is not a great deal of concern to wildlife health, but what it does show is that this is now definitive evidence that AIVs do get down to Antarctica,» Hurt said.

He has guided the establishment of centers of excellence in comparative medicine, wildlife health, food safety and more.

They are also called upon to understand the environmental interface between human health, wildlife health, livestock health and companion animal health.

Tufts Wildlife Clinic was established in 1983 as a regional resource for information related to wildlife health for the general public, wildlife biologists, veterinarians, health professionals and others.

«One World — One Health» was coined by the Wildlife Conservation Society and in 2004, The Manhattan Principles were the result of an interdisciplinary symposium addressing the relationships between human, domestic animal and wildlife health.

«This wildlife health training program will leverage our funding and the Smithsonian's expertise to multiply our collective impact to save animal lives around the world.»

Trainees will conduct research focused on a wildlife health issue based on the program's priorities and the trainee's background.

Morris Animal Foundation is partnering with Smithsonian Global Health to fund a wildlife health training program.