Join Us for World Wildlife Day: “From Knowledge to Prevention – Reducing Toxic Threats to Wildlife”
Every year, wildlife faces silent but devastating threats from pharmaceuticals seeping into waterways, veterinary drugs disrupting ecosystems, and heavy metals like lead poisoning animals across the globe. Yet, behind these challenges lie groundbreaking solutions, scientific progress, and inspiring success stories that prove prevention is possible. On this World Wildlife Day on 3rd March 2026, the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) brings together leading experts to explore how science, policy, and education can turn the tide against toxic threats to biodiversity.
This one-hour webinar will highlight solutions and examples of positive outcomes that can be applied and implemented to protect wildlife health. We’ll dive into three critical issues: the behavioral and ecological impacts of pharmaceutical pollution on aquatic species, the devastating yet reversible decline of vulture populations due to livestock NSAIDs and the global fight against lead toxicity, where the development of non-lead alternatives and regulatory processes are providing significant opportunities for health protection for wildlife, people and domestic animals. Each session will showcase real-world solutions, from policy reforms to community-led conservation.
Join us to learn, engage in a live Q&A with experts, and leave inspired by the progress already underway. Together, we can transform knowledge into tangible action to protect wildlife—today and for generations to come.
The webinar will be offered in English with simultaneous translation in Spanish and French.
