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.

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

WCS is committed to a strategy that invests in developing the global conservation leaders of tomorrow. As part of that strategy, the Graduate Scholarship Program provides support for graduate ...

Coastal communities and ecosystems are intricately and inextricably entwined. People depend on coastal ecosystems for nutrition, livelihoods, refuge, protection, and climate resilience, and in the ...

We are protecting regions that are biologically outstanding and where the long-term conservation of species and ecological processes is viable.

Across the planet we collaborate with Indigenous Peoples and local communities to achieve a shared vision for a more secure, inclusive, just, equitable, and resilient future, where wildlife remains a ...