Dr. Gabby Wild is an internationally acclaimed wildlife veterinarian, conservationist, and National Geographic educator. She has traveled the world to save animals. Frompioneering elephant acupuncture in Sumatra to treating Jane Goodall’s chimpanzees in Uganda. In fact, she is the first elephant acupuncturist in the past 3,000 years.
She founded her own nonprofit, The Gabby Wild Foundation, for the conservation of threatened animals, which has been awarded on NBC’s TV show GIVE. Other accolades include being named a “Champion” of the Zoological Society of London, being a featured Google Talks speaker, and serving as an honoured member and lecturer of The Explorer’s Club.
Kids often recognize Dr. Wild as the veterinarian from Animal Jam Classic (over 154 million registered users) where she has answered questions from children about wild animals. She is also a two-time National Geographic Kids author of the books “Wild Vet Adventures with Dr.Gabby Wild” and “How to Speak Animal”.
Some of her noted recent collaborations: World Wildlife Fund, National Geographic Society, Jane Goodall Institute, Harvard University, Oxford University,
The American Museum of Natural History, The Bronx Zoo, Zoological Society of London, Natural History Museum (London), and Muséum National / Histoire Naturelle (Paris).
Dr. Wild is acclaimed as a staunch sustainable and ethical fashion activist. She merges eco-fashion to raise funds for her conservation causes whilst imploring fair wages and safe environments for industry workers. Her sustainable fashion campaigns have been acclaimed at several international fashion weeks, including New York Fashion Week, and have included campaigns with former Project Runway fashion designers. She received her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from Cornell University, Master of Public Heath from the University of Minnesota, and is also a published genetics researcher.
American-born and raised shortly thereafter in France and later in Boca Raton, FL, when Dr.Wild is not traveling to save animals, she divides her time as a small animal surgeon at Guardian Veterinary Specialists and volunteers as a Wildlife Health Program veterinarian for the Bronx Zoo.
Q&A
1. What’s your biggest achievement / Something you’re proud of yourself for?
“Although I wish I had one prolific item that feels like my greatest achievement, I find that there are various sectors of my professional and personal life that I am so proud of from establishing my nonprofit for threatened animals that protects some of the world’s most critically endangered animals and unites children globally around animal education to the personal achievements of bonding with friends, adoring my two delicious children, being a supportive wife, and keeping my mother as the North Star. When people feel inspired to care for wildlife, I feel like I’ve made a long-lasting difference. When I fix an injured animal who goes back into the wild, I’m part of the process of saving an entire species. But when I bake chocolate chip cookies with my kids, they feel how much I love them, and that impact is just as important!”
2. What’s your biggest fear / something that holds you back?
“Funding is my greatest challenge. Without funding for the charity, I can’t save lives; I can’t protect the planet. I need it to pay my team, buy the medicine, get on a plane to save an animal, etc. It’s that simple. I am eternally grateful to our donors and collaborators who support us financially.”
3. What’s your biggest contribution / Something you like to share?
“Keep doing good! If everyone thinks about making someone else feel good about themselves, then we will all feel elated within our own skin. And the world will work a little bit better together.”
4. Fun Facts:
“I’m the first elephant acupuncturist in the past 3,000 years.“
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