Q. To what extent is ivory consumption in the U.S. contributing to the African elephant poaching crisis? A. While the largest ivory consumer nations are in Asia, the U.S. has one of the bigger markets ...

Our goal is to conserve the world's largest wild places in 14 priority regions, habitat for around 50% of the world’s biodiversity and a wide range of charismatic megafauna.

“The world’s biodiversity is facing threats from all angles. Wilderness areas are vanishing and fauna and flora species are facing extinction like never before. The team at WCS is relentless in its ...

Our marine team brings together experts in field-based applied science, policy, and finance to design and implement innovative ocean solutions globally. When you give to WCS you're helping ensure a ...

The science-based knowledge we create will be used by conservation practitioners to strengthen conservation practice, inform and reform conservation policy, and permit ourselves and others to credibly ...

WCS seeks the services of a Conservation Finance Partner (CFP) to support the Miamba Yetu programme’s financial component. WCS is implementing the Miamba Yetu Sustainable Reef Investments programme as ...

In recent decades, deforestation has caused a dramatic decline in Andean bear populations, and estimates suggest fewer than 18,000 bears now survive in the wild. This threat will only worsen in coming ...

A dorado catfish travels about 11,000 kilometers during its life--almost the entire width of South America. This includes the distance it descends as larvae and as a young adult looking to spawn. The ...

As human beings, we connect to nature with a force as strong as the pull of gravity. We depend on nature. Zoos, aquariums, botanical gardens, national parks, the conservation movement—indeed, the ...

As a science-based conservation NGO, we work in 64 countries and at scores of field sites that represent the last of the wild. WCS's global conservation program encompasses five programs: Africa, Asia ...

Right now, WCS conservationists are working on the ground around the world to save some of the most spectacular and imperiled wildlife on the planet. We need your help to continue this important work.

The giant Ibis went unrecorded for more than 50 years until it was rediscovered by WCS in 1993. The Critically Endangered giant ibis is the largest ibis in the world, twice the size of the second ...