Our team is on the ground in Nice, France for the UN Ocean Conference, advocating for bold, science-backed action to protect our ocean’s future. At over a dozen side events, we’re convening partners ...

Are you an ocean expert? World Oceans Day is June 8. Learn more about the sea creatures and marine places supporters like you help WCS to protect by taking our quiz now.

When we launched the Elephant Origami Challenge in the summer of 2016, we hoped it would strike a chord. We had no idea. Boxes and boxes of beautiful origami poured in. All 50 states and 40-plus ...

WCS, the “W” logo, WE STAND FOR WILDLIFE, I STAND FOR WILDLIFE, and STAND FOR WILDLIFE are service marks of Wildlife Conservation Society. The Wildlife Conservation Society is a nonprofit, tax-exempt ...

WCS President and CEO Cristián Samper sent a message to all WCS staff on Juneteenth, 2020. In this letter, he sought to cast a necessary light on our past, examine our present, and commit WCS to doing ...

*In June 2021, a year after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, WCS refreshed and refined its policy statement on combating the threat of zoonotic spillover posed by wild meat ...

The Sustainable Finance for Tiger Landscapes Conference was held in Bhutan under the patronage of Her Majesty The Queen, Jetsun Pema Wangchuck. The two-day summit brought tiger range countries ...

WCS contributed to and is a partner in the development of a new report that demonstrates how global biodiversity goals are unattainable without the full recognition of the land and resource rights of ...

This World Oceans Day, WCS and partners are launching a breakthrough artificial intelligence tool that will provide critical data on fish stocks and the health of our oceans. Watch to learn more! WCS, ...

At WCS, we operate five wildlife parks in New York City (Bronx Zoo, New York Aquarium, Central Park Zoo, Prospect Park Zoo, and Queens Zoo) and work in 50-plus countries saving wildlife and wild ...

With their striking white plumage and piercing yellow eyes, snowy owls are icons of the Arctic tundra. These majestic owls are powerful hunters, capable of surviving in some of the harshest climates ...

And since World Frog Day is just around the corner, it’s the perfect time to learn some little-known (and wildly bizarre) frog facts to impress your friends with—and to spread the word on just how ...