Cornell Yang Center for Wildlife Health awards seed grants for conservation

Why are eastern rockhopper penguin populations plummeting in New Zealand? What's a reliable, rapid test for detecting rodenticide poisoning in live birds of prey? How can we use technology to help diagnose wildlife diseases in Nepal while training local scientists?

These pressing questions are driving the three projects receiving inaugural awards from the Catalyzing Conservation Fund (CCF), a newly launched grants program from the Cornell K. Lisa Yang Center for Wildlife Health (CYCWH). The CCF provides catalytic seed funding to faculty and other researchers at the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine (CVM) to spur innovation and leadership, generate on-the-ground results, and ultimately deliver real-world conservation impact for wildlife and wild places. This includes supporting innovative projects with a focus on improving the health of free-ranging wildlife, catalyzing research targeted at solving environmental problems through a One Health lens, and providing rapid response funding to quickly deploy resources in urgent situations, such as wildlife disease outbreaks or mass mortality events.

Read the full story on the Cornell K. Lisa Yang Center for Wildlife Health site.