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MEDIA ALERT: DENVER/August 16, 2024 - Morris Animal Foundation-funded researchers demonstrate health effects of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on sea turtles.

MEDIA ALERT: DENVER/April 3, 2024 — Morris Animal Foundation announces funding for eight new wildlife projects.

December 21, 2023 – A new scientific publication in Environmental Pollution unveils alarming discoveries: Morris Animal Foundation-funded researchers have identified cancer-causing contaminants in sediments and fish in a Chesapeake Bay tributary near a coal ash landfill.

Oct. 19, 2023 – Morris Animal Foundation is addressing diseases in endangered wildlife, from bats to black-footed ferrets to abalone and frogs.

July 24, 2023 – Supporting new researchers is critical to improving and developing treatments, diagnostics and cures for the many health challenges facing animals today and tomorrow.

June 22, 2023 — The Foundation funds research to help save amphibians around the world, including studies on deadly chytrid fungus, reproduction of endangered animals and new genomic tools.

December 22, 2022 – Diseases, cold stunning, red tide events impact the health and well-being of sea turtles around the world. But researchers are coming to the rescue.