“The Need for More C.A.R. in Wildlife Health: Consequences, Action, and Reverence” — a Special Species Symposium Keynote Lecture presented on March 30, 2025 by Dr. Craig Stephen, a Cornell K. Lisa Yang Center for Wildlife Health Distinguished Speaker. This event was sponsored by the Cornell K. Lisa Yang Center […]
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Abstract: Emerging infections and environmental disruptions increasingly threaten wildlife and ecosystem health.Free-ranging wildlife often serve as early indicators of ecological instability, making timely detection ofmorbidity and mortality events critical for early warning. Yet, existing systems lack the analytical capacity forreal-time outbreak detection. We present WildAlert, an AI-driven early warning system […]
WildAlert- an AI-driven early warning system that integrates fine tuned BERT-based natural language processing models with unsupervised anomaly detection framework to
identify unusual wildlife health events using real-time pre-diagnostic clinical data from wildlife rehabilitation
organizations.
The 74th Annual International Conference of the Wildlife Disease Association will be held in Chicago, Illinois, United States. This year’s theme is “Thriving Together: Urban One Health and Ecosystem Resiliency.” With over half of the world’s population living in urban areas, the need to develop conservation plans that work within these […]
A March 2026 study documenting the parasites was published in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases. Researchers from the University of Washington found Echinococcus multilocularis in 37 of the 100 coyotes they surveyed in Washington’s Puget Sound region. “The fact that we found it here in one-third of our coyotes was surprising, because it wasn’t […]
The U.S. Geological Survey’s National Wildlife Health Center (NWHC) is continuing to track the effects of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) on wild birds across the country. From September 2025 through January 2026, wildlife agencies reported 241 bird mortality events involving more than 126,000 wild birds in 28 states. These […]
Current updates on the spread of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) in North America.
GARD Conference to be held in Knoxville, TN June 8-12 2026
WildAlert: A Real-Time, AI-Driven Early Warning System for Wildlife Health and Ecological Threat Detection 
Tapeworm (Echinococcus multilocularis) previously not found in the Pacific Northwest has been detected in Washington state’s coyotes 
Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Continues to Affect Wild Birds Across All Four U.S. Flyways 
Wildlife Disease Association (WDA) Annual Conference 2026: Chicago, Illinois July 26-31, 2026 
Global Amphibian & Reptile Disease Conference 2026 
Wildlife Disease Association 70th Annual International Conference 2022 
Virtual 36th Annual Wildlife & Exotic Animal Symposium hosted by the students of WAAM & AEMC at UC Davis 
Wildlife Disease Association/European Wildlife Disease Association Joint Virtual Conference 2021 Designed by WPZOOM
