Andrew Cunningham

Trustee

I became a member of DWCT as a boy around 1974, having been a passionate, lifelong advocate for wildlife conservation. After graduating as a veterinarian, I joined the Zoological Society of London where I established a wildlife disease research group. I believe in evidence-based conservation, publishing over 500 scientific articles on wildlife conservation. I have worked extensively in the field in the UK and overseas, having led several international and multi-disciplinary wildlife disease research projects, including investigating vulture declines in South Asia, zoonotic virus emergence from bats and discovering chytrid fungus as a cause of global amphibian declines (for which I was co-awarded a medal by the CSIRO in Australia). I discovered a new viral disease of amphibians in Europe, published the first report of the extinction of a species by an infectious disease and led the group that identified trichomonosis as the cause of greenfinch declines in the UK.