Today. "Or they simply don't know what they are doing" wapo.st/4rE11ib

From @nytimes.com: Sharks and Rays Gain Sweeping Protections From Wildlife Trade These represent the first time there’s been recognition that some sharks and rays are wildlife, just like elephants or rhinos, WCS’s @lukedavid301.bsky.social tells the paper. 🌎 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/s...

“We need to give species a fighting chance.” WCS’s Susan Lieberman delivered an urgent call-to-action yesterday evening during the High-Level Dialogue on the eve of the opening of #CITESCOP20. 🌏 Read her remarks: bit.ly/3K3HYgv

This #Thanksgiving season, we want to thank everyone who has made a difference for nature this year. With your help, we’ve won critical protections for wildlife and wild places to benefit us all. 🌎 Check out our new 2025 #WCSImpact Report: www.wcs.org/about-us/imp...

Looking forward to joining colleagues at the 🇬🇧🇧🇷 UK–Brazil International One Health Symposium next week. A critical moment to connect science, policy & practice across regions as we tackle climate change, biodiversity loss, AMR & zoonotic risks together eu.eventscloud.com/website/1834... #OneHealth

We can’t let the saiga’s remarkable recovery be undone by the horn trade. That’s why we oppose Proposal 3 at #CITESCOP20 to lift the zero-export quota for wild saiga from Kazakhstan and allow international commercial trade in saiga horns. bit.ly/4pC2Ri3 🌏

STATEMENT: #COP30 is a moment to recognize nature, ecological integrity (or the health of ecosystems), and Indigenous leadership as critical parts of the climate agenda. 🌎 Read our statement: bit.ly/47L3BKg

📢Today, the Intergovernmental Working Group (IGWG) for the #pandemictreaty started its 3rd meeting to develop a Pathogen Access and Benefits Sharing (PABS) Annex. The meeting takes place on 3-7 Nov in Geneva. 🧵

Today is One Health Day! Register below to hear how Indigenous and place-based knowledge and community-led wildlife surveillance advance our understanding of the interconnected health of animals, humans, and ecosystems. @wcs.org When: Wednesday Nov. 5 @ 10 am ET / 9 pm ICT zoom.us/meeting/regi...

It's #OneHealthDay! Protecting and restoring nature's integrity is essential to addressing today's polycrisis, which includes biodiversity loss, the climate emergency, and systemic health threats. @wcs.org #OneHealth

A new bat coronavirus discovered in Brazil confirms what we already knew: nature handles furin cleavage sites just fine. Lab leakers, don’t worry, you've got the track record to pivot seamlessly to a career in creative fiction writing. Quick update on the news: open.substack.com/pub/protagon...

There is a very good reply to that OpEd by @philippmarkolin.bsky.social in today's Letters to the Editor in STAT www.statnews.com/2025/10/25/s...

When I say that Trump and his petrostate/plutocrat overlords are a threat to humanity, I mean it #ScienceUnderSiege www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Biodiversity isn’t just an environmental issue — it’s a health issue. We argue that ignoring biodiversity loss undermines efforts to protect public health. Protecting nature is a primary medical intervention. 👉 www.statnews.com/2025/10/20/b... #OneHealth #Biodiversity #PublicHealth @wcs.org

Poor data management has long hindered wildlife health surveillance and One Health integration. The @wcs.org led HAWK database enables harmonized data sharing across sectors–a common good for One Health tinyurl.com/498np55z #OneHealth #DataForGood #wildlifehealth #surveillance

Congratulations John 🙌

We cannot afford to reject tools that could help safeguard both people and nature. At #IUCNcongress, after intense debate, IUCN members just adopted Motion 87, which establishes a responsible, science-based policy framework on synthetic biology. 🌍 newsroom.wcs.org/News-Release...

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

At the #IUCNCongress starting this week in Abu Dhabi, we are supporting Motion 87, which establishes a responsible, science-based policy framework on synthetic biology. bit.ly/4n1h1aM 🌍

Our recently launched 2025–2030 Coral Reef Conservation Strategy is a plan to conserve the most climate-resilient reefs. bit.ly/4n0C3WV It’s the work of 70+ experts in 18 countries, linking our science, partnerships, policy, and community work into a shared vision.

Rangers are on the frontlines of conservation, protecting our natural and cultural heritage for the benefit of all. Today at #IUCNcongress, with our partners, we proudly reaffirmed our commitment to the Universal Ranger Support Alliance, which advocates for and supports rangers around the world. 🌍

Enhanced monitoring, early detection, rapid response. Critical to addressing Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza. Today at #IUCNcongress, WCS’s Dr. Sarah Olson spoke about WCS’s experience addressing HPAI in places like Peru and Cambodia and the need for sustainable wildlife health surveillance. 🌍

At the #IUCNcongress, a motion on One Health, developed and championed by WCS and its partners, is poised to be adopted. “WCS’s health and field teams have seen firsthand how human well-being depends on the integrity of nature,” said WCS's Dr. Sarah Olson. 🌍 newsroom.wcs.org/News-Release...

Worth remembering however there have been 64 cases including 43 deaths already in this Ebola outbreak including most recently a 3-week-old neonate that died.

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

At the United Nations today, we championed a new finance mechanism to save tropical forests around the world. The design of the #TFFF is environmentally robust and financially sound, and its proposed governance is solid, said WCS President and CEO Adam Falk. More: bit.ly/47YqDz1

The health of all peoples is fundamental to the attainment of peace - the @who.int Constitution is timeless. It's as relevant today as it was in 1948. Choose peace.

The Exotic Pet Trade Harms Animals and Humans. European Union legislators are considering a form of regulation that could protect many species from unsafe exploitation — if it’s done right. https://therevelator.org/exotic-pet-trade-european-union/

Damn. www.koin.com/news/oregon/...

What’s on the menu for whales in New York Bight? New science from WCS Ocean Giants team shows humpbacks in nearshore/mid-shelf areas seem to eat wider variety of prey than those much further offshore—valuable info to guide conservation efforts and ecosystem monitoring. 🌎 doi.org/10.1002/aqc....

RFK Jr. went on Fox News today to claim that HHS has had “no successes” in the past 40 years. I beg to differ. Figure from Lei et al., NEJM 2020. Link below.

Several anti-ICE protestors on the Ohio-Kentucky border. This is how the police dealt with them. Literally beat the hell out of them. This is Trump's police state America, coming to a protest near you.

It's not just that we have to save our country from Trumpism. We have to save the entire world from a ravenous, reckless, criminal U.S. government. It's a moral imperative.

We are only now getting a true understanding of the scale and scope of the shark meat trade, says WCS's @lukedavid301.bsky.social. Upcoming #CITES #CoP20 will include urgently needed proposals to protect the world’s most threatened species. 🌏 news.mongabay.com/2025/08/mong...

@defendpublichealth.bsky.social issued its report today: "Improving the Health of Americans Together: An evidence-based framework for addressing the root causes of illness in the U.S." Oh and we call for #RFKJr to go! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Job opportunity: www.woah.org/en/job-offer...

I can only echo: “Long live the Sea and Conicet,” 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/w...

HHS just gutted mRNA vaccine development. A reckless move that undermines science, global health equity, and future pandemic preparedness. This isn't just bad policy. It's dangerous. www.linkedin.com/pulse/disarm... #PandemicPreparedness #Pandemic #GlobalHealth #vaccines

The all-villain ACIP continues to hemorrhage actual expertise. It's pretty hard to take out the MMR and polio vaccines if there are annoying experts around to inconveniently talk about their benefits and safety record. open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...

Life is booming in the New York Bight. Our WCS Ocean Giants team saw fin whales, humpbacks, and common dolphins all feeding together. At the surface, two different pectoral fins emerged, a side-lunging fin whale and a fin-slapping humpback. A feeding frenzy on a fave prey type. 🌎

I am so confused. Isn't the current Mayor the one who should be rattled?

Start your morning with two minutes of the testimony of Samuel Garcia, an average American who drove 3 hours to speak truth to power to the Texas legislature. Let’s decide that we are all Samuel Garcia. Get in their faces and make them listen. Mr. Garcia is a great American.

So today, we're sharing two years of research on the path to an "IPCC for pandemics." It's an unflinching look at multilateralism, scientific complexity, and why global health doesn't quite work. But it's also a blueprint for the future. 👉 Please read and share! 🔓 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

With the ground under American science shifting, how should philanthropies that support science respond? WCS President and CEO Adam Falk, who until recently served as president of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, shares some thoughts in @science.org. 🌎 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

By end of 2022, ~8000 Black Vultures died, mostly in Florida. Serology showed lack of antibodies in some populations (Kentucky, Tennessee), but present in others (Florida, Pennsylvania). Infection by scavenging. 👉 meridian.allenpress.com/jwd/article-...

Try and make it through this. Really watch. youtube.com/shorts/tEVFP...

Summary Table of the massive defunding of biomedical research in the United States www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

"New Handbook Aims to Protect Scientists From Autocratic Threats--Scientists, experts say, need to help protect democracy" by Bob Berwyn for @insideclimatenews.org: insideclimatenews.org/news/0407202...

From wildlife tracking to AI-powered early warning systems, predictive health is the future of pandemic prevention. I was glad to contribute to this new @WOAH_AnimalHealth piece on how we can shift from reacting to preventing: 🔗 theanimalecho.woah.org/en/from-reac... #OneHealth #AI #Surveillance