A new voice in conservation

Abstract

Of the various brewing biological crises of our time, the issues of declining biodiversity and emerging disease are among the most complex and farreaching. In many respects they are also different sides of the same coin, a perspective that is central to the new field of conservation medicine. The product of a growing coalition of conservation biologists and ecologists, wildlife veterinarians, and biomedical researchers, conservation medicine explicitly addresses the interlinked and trans-disciplinary nature of many of today's most urgent health and conservation issues.