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The Full Story

At the Center for Wildlife Health Research, we are dedicated to advancing the understanding of wildlife health through innovative research and community engagement. Join us in our mission to protect and preserve the diverse wildlife that enrich our planet.

Mission

Our mission is to reduce the negative impacts of human activity on wildlife. We work to find and implement practical solutions to identified problems using proven approaches.

Approaches

We use Community Based Social Marketing to Identify Problems and Solutions that provide Measure Results. 

  • High-volume cat sterilization increases spay-neuter access and utilization among low-income, low-resource cat owners and reduces cat predation on birds

  • Overcoming homeowners' barriers to installing window treatments improves utilization of decals and reduces bird collisions

  • Modifying messaging among veterinarians promotes indoor-only cat ownership.

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CWHR CEO, Dr. Elizabeth Stone, fell in love with Maine and its animals spending summers here with her family as a child. From there, she went on to get a Master’s Degree in Conservation Biology, completed a Veterinary Residency in Raptor Medicine at the University of Minnesota, and worked across the world conducting field research on threatened parrots and consulting on raptor medicine and surgery. In 2010, settled in Maine with a growing family, she incorporated Center for Wildlife Health Research, 501c3 and soon thereafter, opened Community Spay-Neuter with a vision to help people, pets and wildlife all at once. Rather than seeing these at odds with each other, she saw an opening to conduct a veterinary practice that worked holistically to improve the lives of all at once through affordable sterilization of pets.

​To date, we the clinic has sterilized over 40,000 cats!

For more information, visit Communityspayneuterclinic.org.

Presentations and Publications
SELECTED PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

  • Salo, A., Stone, E.G. 2014. A survey of the views of US veterinary teaching faculty to owned cat housing practices. Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery. 17(12):1057.

  • Jessup, D.A. and Stone, E.G. 2010. Another perspective on feral cat control. Letter to the Editor. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association 237(5):495.

  • Lepczyk, C.A., Dauphine, N., Bird, D.M., Conant, S., Cooper, R.J., Duffy, D.C., Hatley, P.J., Marra, P.P., Stone, E., and Temple, S.A. 2010. What Conservation Biologists Can Do to Counter Trap-Neuter-Return: Response to Longcore et al. Conservation Biology 24(2): 627.

  • Stone, E.G., Montiel-Parra, G., and Pérez, T. 2005. A survey of parasitic and microbial pathogens in four species of Mexican parrots. Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine 36(2):245-249

  • Stone, E.G., Rand P.W., Lacombe, E.H. 2005. Use of the IDEXX 3Dx Lyme test as a system for predicting human Lyme Disease Risk in Maine. Emerging Infectious Disease 11(4):722-724.

  • Lewis, R.E, and E.G. Stone. 2001. Psittopsylla mexicana, a new genus and species of bird flea from Chihuahua, Mexico. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 109(3-4):360-366.

  • Stone, E.G., Millam, J.R. , El Halawani, M.E. , Phillips, R.E. , and P.T. Redig. 1999. Determinants of reproductive success in force re-paired Cockatiels (Nymphicus hollandicus). Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 63(1999):209-218.

  • Stone, E.G., Walser, M.M. , Redig, P.T. , Rings, B.S. , and D.L. Howard. 1999. Multifocal osseous metaplasia in thirteen great horned owls and one red-tailed hawk. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 35(1):137-140.

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OTHER PUBLICATIONS/REPORTS/POSTERS

  • Calabro, J., Stone, E.G., Harris, R., Pokras, M., Schmidt, S., and Hooper, M. Anti-cholinesterase pesticides and bird mortality: Lack of brain cholinesterase-inhibition in birds from Maine and Massachusetts. Poster for Widlife Disease Association Annual Meeting, Storrs, CT 2006.

  • Stone, E.G. 2005. Monitoring pesticide and PCB exposure in birds found dead or presenting to rehabilitators.            Report to Maine Department of Environmental Protection SWAT Program.

  • Paras, A.C., C. Macias, P. Ciembor, E. Stone, N. Lamberski, and B. Ritchie. 2002. Pre-release health evaluation of Amazona parrots in Northeast  Mexico. Proceedings of Association of Avian Veterinarians: 365-367.

  • Stone, E.G. 1999. Shark cartilage and the responsible stewardship of sharks. Veterinary Practice News, January issue.

  • Stone, E.G. 1997. Female cockatiels may respond to mate nest box activity. Exotic Bird Report, UC Davis Psittacine Research Project, 10 (1).

  • Stone, E.G. 1997. Predicting success of matchmaking in cockatiels. Exotic Bird Report, UC Davis Psittacine Research Project, 9(2).

  • Stone, E.G., and P.T. Redig. 1994. Preliminary evaluation of synthetic colloids for the treatment of hypoproteinemia and hypovolemia in birds. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Association of Avian Veterinarians, Reno, NV, pp. 197-199.

  • Stone, E.G. 1994. Selected topics in raptor medicine and surgery. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Illinois Association of Veterinary Medicine, Chicago, IL, pp. 1-26. 

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