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Wildlife Trust, SC Ports Renew Partnership for Endangered Right Whale Conservation
NEW YORK and CHARLESTON, SC - November 17, 2008 - For the second year, scientists at Wildlife Trust will increase their aerial surveys of right whales thanks to extended funding from the South Carolina State Ports Authority (SCSPA).
Wildlife Trust Announces Red List Assessment for Ecosystems
NEW YORK, NY - October 17, 2008 - Wildlife Trust, the international conservation organization that empowers local conservation scientists worldwide to protect nature and safeguard ecosystems and human health, announced the IUCN's acceptance of a Wildlife Trust Alliance motion to create the first-ever criteria for a Red List of threatened ecosystems.
Wildlife Trust Honors Innovative Leaders in Conservation
NEW YORK, NY - September 22, 2008 - Wildlife Trust, the international conservation organization that empowers local conservation scientists worldwide to protect nature and safeguard ecosystems and human health, is pleased to announce that it will honor Wildlife Trust Alliance partner and conservation scientist, Dr. Claudio Valladares Padua, and Guilherme Peirao Leal, founder and Co Chairman of Natura Cosméticos S.A. for their environmental responsible corporate leadership at its annual gala on October 16, 2008.
Evolution And Climate Intensify West Nile Virus Transmission
NEW YORK - June 27, 2008 - Scientists at Wildlife Trust's Consortium for Conservation Medicine (CCM), New York, and the New York State Department of Health's Wadsworth Center report in a paper published today in the journal Public Library of Science Pathogens that warmer temperatures helped a new strain of West Nile virus invade and spread across North America.
West Nile Virus Prevalent in Wildlife Near Urban Areas
NEW YORK - June 17, 2008 - In a paper published by the leading scientific journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, scientists at Wildlife Trust reported on results from a recent study of West Nile virus seroprevalence in wild mammals living in and around urbanized areas. The study was conducted in the mid-Atlantic region of the U.S. and is the first-of-its-kind research focusing on West Nile virus exposure in wild mammals in a spatially-explicit context.
Wildlife Trust & Wildlife Foundation of Florida Partner to Save State Springs
NEW YORK - March 10, 2008 - Wildlife Trust and the Wildlife Foundation of Florida (Foundation) are sponsoring a specialty license plate to help protect Florida's unique springs and the species that live there.
Scientists Create First Map of Global Emerging Disease Hotspots
NEW YORK - February 21, 2008 - In a paper published by the leading scientific journal Nature, scientists at the Consortium for Conservation Medicine (CCM) Wildlife Trust New York, the Zoological Society of London (ZSL), Columbia University (New York) and the University of Georgia have announced a major breakthrough in the understanding of what causes diseases like HIV/AIDS and SARS to emerge, and how to further predict and prevent future devastating pandemics by plotting a global map of "Emerging Disease Hotspots."
