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 ...

*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 ...

View the animal images that captured the most votes throughout our 50-day campaign, highlighting iconic wildlife, the challenges they face, and the work that WCS is doing to protect them through the ...

Living only on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, the Critically Endangered Sumatran tiger is the sole remaining sub-species of "island tigers," a group which once included the now-extinct Javan and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...