Stories and Updates

Explore our posts for updates on our projects and team. We aim for this page to be a valuable source of information; providing you with in-depth tutorials and behind-the-scenes glimpses into our work; as well as a retrospective look at our journey thus far.

Detecting Wildlife Illness And Death With New Early Alert System
In The News, WildAlert Devin Dombrowski In The News, WildAlert Devin Dombrowski

Detecting Wildlife Illness And Death With New Early Alert System

A new early detection surveillance system for wildlife helps identify unusual patterns of illness and death in near real-time by tapping into data from wildlife rehabilitation organizations across California. This system has the potential to expand nationally and globally. It was created by scientists at the University of California, Davis, School of Veterinary Medicine with partners at the California Department of Fish and Wildlife and the nonprofit Wild Neighbors Database Project.

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Enhanced Wildlife Disease Surveillance in California
WRMD, WildAlert Devin Dombrowski WRMD, WildAlert Devin Dombrowski

Enhanced Wildlife Disease Surveillance in California

Nearly six years ago, when we first set out to create WRMD, we set a few priority goals. We first wanted to provide wildlife rehabilitators with an amazing, simple, and free database to help them with their daily record keeping needs. We also wanted to create an interface to aggregate data across multiple organizations and to allow for the entire community to benefit from their shared data.

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