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Wildlife Trust, SC Ports Partner for Endangered Right Whale
NEW YORK and CHARLESTON, SC – December 1, 2009 – For the third consecutive year, the South Carolina State Ports Authority (SCSPA) has pledged up to $200,000 per year for a total of five years to increase Wildlife Trust’s aerial surveys for the protection of endangered right whales.
Wildlife Trust Engages Top-notch Scientific Experts
NEW YORK – November 23, 2009 – Wildlife Trust announces the addition of two scientists to its Conservation Medicine program. Drs. Kevin J. Olival and Kurt J. Vandegrift recently joined Wildlife Trust to lead core zoonotic disease research globally. Wildlife Trust works to empower local conservation scientists both on the local and global level.
USAID Funds Global Disease Surveillance Initiative
NEW YORK – October 23, 2009 – Wildlife Trust, the conservation organization that empowers local conservation scientists worldwide to protect nature and safeguard ecosystems and human health, prepares for a key organizational role in the recently launched program from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) aimed at detecting and predicting diseases (zoonoses) that move between wildlife and people.
Wildlife Trust Honors Innovative Leaders In Conservation
NEW YORK – October 19, 2009 – Wildlife Trust, the international conservation organization that empowers local conservation scientists worldwide is pleased to announce that it will honor Jonathan Greenblatt, co-founder of Ethos Brands, the business that launched Ethos Water.
Wildlife Trust Announces New Appointments to Board of Directors
NEW YORK – September 18, 2009 – Wildlife Trust, the conservation organization that empowers local conservation scientists worldwide to protect nature and safeguard ecosystems and human health, announces the appointment of Mr. Oliver Engert and Dr. Samuel Stebbins to its Board of Directors.
Bats Without Borders: New Study Warns of Extinction
NEW YORK – August 25, 2009 – Wildlife Trust, the conservation organization that empowers local conservation scientists worldwide to protect nature and safeguard ecosystems and human health, announced the need for stricter controls to monitor the survival of the world’s largest species of fruit bat.
Wildlife Trust Named Recipient of Nature’s Path 2009 Envirokidz Giving Back Award
NEW YORK – August 12, 2009 – Wildlife Trust, the conservation organization that empowers local conservation scientists worldwide to protect nature and safeguard ecosystems and human health, announced that it was named a recipient of Nature’s Path Organic Foods’ 2009 EnviroKidz Giving Back Award.
Global Conservation Organization Expands Team
NEW YORK – June 5, 2009 – Wildlife Trust, the organization that empowers local conservation scientists worldwide to protect nature and safeguard ecosystem and human health, announced the addition of two scientists to its growing team. James "Jim" Desmond and Parviez Hosseini, Ph.D., recently joined Wildlife Trust's Conservation Medicine program to work on core zoonotic disease research.
Wildlife Trust Announces New Appointment to Board of Directors
NEW YORK – May 21, 2009 – Wildlife Trust, the conservation organization that empowers local conservation scientists worldwide to protect nature and safeguard ecosystems and human health, today announced the appointment of Naras Eechambadi to its Board of Directors.
U.S. Wildlife Trade Threatens Public Health and Ecosystems
NEW YORK - May 1, 2009 - In an article appearing in Science magazine, a team of scientists from Wildlife Trust, Brown University, Pacific Lutheran University, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Global Invasive Species Programme report that poorly regulated wildlife imports into the United States is fragmented and insufficiently coordinated, failing to accurately list more than 4 in 5 species entering the country.
Wildlife Trust Hosts Annual Flora, Fauna and Flamingoes Event
NEW YORK - April 21, 2009 - Wildlife Trust is an international conservation organization that empowers local conservation scientists worldwide to protect nature and safeguard ecosystems and human health. Wildlife Trust's evening of Flora, Fauna and Flamingoes will feature a cocktail reception, a live and silent auction and optional gourmet dinner.
Wildlife Trust's Aerial Survey Team Aids in Whale Rescue
NEW YORK - March 16, 2009 - Wildlife Trust, the international conservation organization committed to wildlife protection, was instrumental in the disentanglement of a right whale off the southeastern coast of the U.S last week.
Wildlife Trust Board of Directors Announce New Leadership
NEW YORK - February 9, 2009 - The Board of Directors of Wildlife Trust (www.wildlifetrust.org) announced today that Dr. Peter Daszak, Executive Vice President of Health at Wildlife Trust, has been appointed President of the organization following the resignation of Dr. Mary C. Pearl.
Conservationists Fighting to Save Entangled Right Whales
NEW YORK - February 4, 2009 - Another entangled North Atlantic right whale was spotted off the coast of Georgia this week.
Human-Induced Environmental Change Drives Disease Emergence
NEW YORK - January 30, 2009 - Wildlife Trust conservation scientist Dr. Alonso Aguirre reports in recent papers published in the New York Academy of Sciences journal that human-induced environmental change causes significant increases in emerging infectious diseases in both wildlife and human populations.
