With the rapid changes of our environments, the interface between ecosystem health, animal health (both wild and domestic) and human health has been gradually concerned. Conservation medicine is an emerging field that is a synthesis of the fields of veterinary medicine, public health, ecology and natural resources, and the principles of conservation biology, biogeography, population genetics, economics, sociology, anthropology and other disciplines to understand and maintain biodiversity. The course aims to (1) provide students from various backgrounds with the opportunity to learn and explore the linkage between and principles of conservation biology and medicine, and (2) connect the concepts and research findings to real world conservation problems in order to seek strategies to minimize the crisis through understanding the ecology and fauna of Taiwan.