NIH terminates EcoHealth Alliance funding of Wuhan lab

The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) informed EcoHealth Alliance, on August 19, 2022, that it has terminated subgrant R01AI110964, which is used to fund the laboratory in Wuhan, China located where the first COVID-19 cases were identified in 2019. EcoHealth Alliance failed "to meet award terms and conditions requiring provision of records to NIH upon request,” including failing to provide the "lab notebooks and original files from the research conducted at the Wuhan lab" on bat coronaviruses. EcoHealth Alliance still receives funding from NIH for other projects.

Wildlife Trust is founded. Predecessor to EcoHealth Alliance

The non-profit, international conservation organisation called Wildlife Trust is founded in 1971 by British naturalist, author and television personality Gerald M. Durrell.  It purpose is to empower conservation scientists that are “dedicated to protecting wildlife and safeguarding human and animal health." In a press release dated September 21, 2010, the Wildlife Trust rebrands itself as EcoHealth Alliance. "The new branding puts health and medicine center stage with wildlife conservation taking a back seat." EcoHealth Alliance pioneered Conservation Medicine and their mission is to address the link between "wildlife, livestock, human health and survival". Their work includes research into emerging infectious diseases. [3] They are positioning themselves to be on “the forefront of informing the public, businesses, and the scientific community about emerging diseases, including potential pandemics.” [1] The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has been working with "EcoHealth Alliance" since 2009 to institute a new global emerging pandemic threat program called PREDICT (to research emerging diseases among high-risk wildlife and in high-risk countries) based on EcoHealth Alliance's disease-outbreak hotspots map. [2]

Wildlife Trust becomes EcoHealth Alliance – Leader in One Health movement

In a press release September 21, 2010 the "Wildlife Trust", a non-profit international conservation organization founded in 1971, and stated to be "dedicated to protecting wildlife and safeguarding human and animal health", announced that the organization will be re-branded with a new name and tagline: EcoHealth Alliance, "Local Conservation, Global Health." [1, 2] Dr. Peter Daszak, president of EcoHealth Alliance said "Building on our strong history, we have grown beyond our original conservation focus to become the central organization defining the intersection of local conservation and global health...A leader in the One Health movement which began in 2004, EcoHealth Alliance is on the forefront of informing the public, businesses, and the scientific community about emerging diseases, including potential pandemics." [3] Through The Intercept FOI requests over $95 million of EcoHealth Alliance funding comes from USAID and US Department of Defence into potential "bioweapons" research. [4, 5] EcoHealth Alliance is in the center of tracking and cataloguing animal viruse genetic sequences and providing finance to laboratories for Gain-of-Function/Dual Use research.

WCS: One World, One Health Symposium

On September 29, 2004 a "One World, One Health" symposium organized by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) [3, 4] was held at The Rockefeller University, and was followed by many other workshops, to bring into plan One Health. Health experts "focused on the current and potential movements of diseases among human, domestic animal, and wildlife populations." They state "A broader understanding of health and disease demands a unity of approach achievable only through a consilience of human, domestic animal and wildlife health" what they call One Health. [1] "Phenomena such as species loss, habitat degradation, pollution, invasive alien species, and global climate change are fundamentally altering life on our planet from terrestrial wilderness and ocean depths to the most densely populated cities. The rise of emerging and resurging infectious diseases threatens not only humans (and their food supplies and economies), but also the fauna and flora comprising the critically needed biodiversity that supports the living infrastructure of our world" William H. Foege, a Fellow at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation gave the Keynote Speech:  "One World, One Health, Could We Muddle Through?" and Dr. Steven Sanderson, a Political Scientist [7] who was President & Chief Executive Officer of the..> READ MORE

Virus sequence uploaded to GenBank, 2 weeks before official genome sequence release

On January 17, 2024, the US House Energy and Commerce Committee investigating the origins of COVID-19 released documents showing that Chinese researcher Dr Lili Ren, a co-investigator with Peter Daszak of EcoHealth Alliance, first submitted the SARS-CoV-2 virus sequence to the NIH’s GenBank genetic sequence database on December 28, 2019, two weeks before the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC) first released the SARS-CoV-2 genetic sequence on January 11, 2020. [1, 2, 3,] "Dr. Lili Ren, an accomplished virologist at the Institute of Pathogen Biology of Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences in Beijing, China, which has ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and People’s Liberation Army. She is also a current subgrantee of non-profit EcoHealth Alliance on the same National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) grant as the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), which has been debarred from receiving NIH grants for ten years for failing to provide laboratory records requested by NIH and for conducting research that “did lead or could lead to health issues or other unacceptable outcomes.” " Her sequence was "nearly identical to the to the sequence later made public by the China CDC on January 10, 2020". The 2015..> READ MORE

Rothschild begins the Wildlife Protection movement

In May 16, 1912, a month after the Titanic sank, banker and expert naturalist Nathaniel Charles Rothschild (1877-1923) held a meeting at the Natural History Museum in London to discuss his idea for a new organisation to save the best places for wildlife in the British Isles. This meeting led to the formation of the Society for the Promotion of Nature Reserves - to identify and secure protection for important wildlife sites in Britain. By 1915 they had compiled a list of 284 sites 'worthy of preservation' - the Rothschild Reserves.  In 1942 the The Government's Nature Reserves Investigation Committee was formed then in an 1949 the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act is passed, which established the first National Parks and Sites of Special Scientific Interest.  Today the organisations form The Wildlife Trusts found thoughout the United Kingdom. [It's unclear why The Wildlife Trusts of UK, has the same logo as WildLife Trust of 1971, the latter becoming EcoHealth Alliance in 2010, further investigation required here]