Fish, turtles, and rays. Check out life underwater off Kenya. Recently, our Baited Remote Underwater Video systems (BRUVs), deployed in Mombasa Marine Park and Reserve along the Kenyan coast, captured footage of a thriving marine ecosystem, showcasing the beauty of life underwater. This highlights the important role of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) in sustaining fisheries and conserving marine biodiversity. Through this type of research, WCS is contributing to strengthening fisheries resource management for a healthier ocean. #MarineConservation #SustainableFisheries #WCS
Wildlife Conservation Society
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We Stand For Wildlife and Wild Places
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WCS stands for wildlife and wild places. As the world’s premier wildlife conservation organization, WCS has a long track record of achieving innovative, impactful results at scale. We run programs spanning more than 3 million biologically critical square miles in nearly 60 countries and all the world's oceans. We build on a unique foundation: Our reach is global; we discover through best-in-class science; we protect through work on the ground with local and indigenous people; we inspire through our world-class zoos, aquarium, and education programs; and we leverage our resources through partnerships and powerful policy influence. Our nearly 4,000 diverse, passionately committed team members in New York City and around the world work collectively to achieve our conservation mission.
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- Non-profit Organization Management
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- Bronx, New York
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- Nonprofit
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- 1895
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- wildlife, biology, zoos , biodiversity, conservation, public policy, AZA Accredited, aquarium, cultural institution, non-profit, international, species, diversity, advocacy, climate change, health, science, new york, animals, environmental, and avian flu
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The past can help keep #tigers for the future. Techniques in indigenous range mapping — figuring out where tigers lived before humans majorly impacted their distribution — can help conservationists learn where tigers and other species are, how they got there, and what we can do to protect them. New study co-authored by experts from our team.👇
Scientists from Wildlife Conservation Society, PANTHERA, IUCN National Museums Scotland, WWF Tigers Alive, New York Botanical Garden, The University of Edinburgh, Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology, University of Kent, and Universiti Malaysia Terengganu are exploring how the past can help keep #tigers for the future. A recent study explores how new techniques in indigenous range mapping — figuring out where tigers lived before humans majorly impacted their distribution — can help conservationists learn where tigers and other species are, how they got there, and what we can do to protect them. 🐅 Tigers have been around for over 2 million years, outlasting early civilizations from #Mesopotamia to the #RomanEmpire and 83 Chinese dynasties. 🐅 Tigers once roamed a vast area, from nearly the Arctic Circle to below the equator at #Bali, and as far west as modern-day Ukraine and Western Turkey to as far east as Japan. Tigers' indigenous range was approximately 11.5 million square kilometers, overlapping 36 modern countries. Today, that range has dramatically decreased, largely due to human intervention, with tigers found in only 10 countries. 🐅 Tigers are habitat generalists. Over the last 9,000 years, they’ve lived in tropical and temperate forests, grasslands and deserts. As long as it’s not too hot and there’s enough prey and habitat, tigers can generally make it work. 🐅 Tigers aren’t constrained by the lines we draw on maps. Some young adult males travel thousands of kilometers to find new territories. 🐅 Rising sea levels had a huge impact on island tiger populations, potentially isolating them for thousands of years. Similarly, climate change might impact future tiger ranges. In some areas, humans began changing tiger habitat over 6,000 years ago. But that knowledge helps us rewrite the future, providing insight into where and how to protect and connect habitat and restore tiger populations. Reintroduction programs are contemplated for Kazakhstan, Thailand and Cambodia. Now's the time to engage in long-term efforts to return tigers to safe and suitable places across their indigenous range. Read the study at https://lnkd.in/dEUaB7CT. 📷: Hardik Pala Photography
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IUCN has released the Green Status Assessment on lions, co-authored by WCS’s Alice Laguardia and Luke Hunter. From this, it’s clear conservation efforts have prevented worse declines, but lions remain largely depleted and face an uncertain future. If you aren’t familiar, the Green Status Assessment was developed around 2012 to provide a fuller picture of species’ conservation status (as an additional component of the existing Red List). It measures how close a species is to being fully ecologically functional across its range, and how much it has recovered thanks to conservation action. 115 total Green Status Assessments have been completed so far, including 39 mammals. Read more: https://lnkd.in/diKFqzNM
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TUNE IN: Wildlife trafficking is a key driver of biodiversity loss in Latin America. Next Thursday, WCS's Susan Lieberman, Vice President of International Policy, will join The Wilson Center for a panel on turning the tide. 🗓️ Thursday, April 3 at 10:00 am ET 📍 https://lnkd.in/eBCHjXdb
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On this week's episode of #WCSWildAudio, why is WCS staging a film festival? “What we want to do here is create a bit of a new paradigm,” says John Calvelli, WCS Executive Vice President for Public Affairs, “where a conservation organization takes it upon itself to help curate a series of films that will help educate the public and at the same time inspire action.” REEL WILD Film Festival will be Friday, April 4 and Saturday, April 5 in New York City. Get tickets now at reelwild.org and check out the latest episode of the podcast to learn more. https://lnkd.in/euTvcFjg
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This week, we are participating in the European Regional Preparatory Meeting for the 15th United Nations Crime Congress to call on States to ensure that environmental crimes are meaningfully reflected in the 2026 Abu Dhabi Declaration. This declaration, to be adopted in April 2026 in the United Arab Emirates, will guide the United Nations’ global crime agenda for the next five years. Despite the far-reaching and destructive impacts of environmental crimes, the previous declaration adopted at the 2021 Kyoto Crime Congress failed to mention three of the most serious forms: illegal deforestation, illegal mining, and illegal fishing. We are urging Member States to address this gap and ensure that all forms of environmental crime threatening the natural strongholds we strive to protect remain a high priority for national and international action.
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REEL WILD Film Festival is not just about seeing great films. “It’s about learning about the film, having the filmmaker there, but also having the scientist there to explain the issues those species are dealing with,” WCS's John Calvelli told Roger Clark and NY1 News today. The festival is April 4 and 5 in New York. More at reelwild.org. Watch: https://lnkd.in/eG5RF5FS #ReelWildNY
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Argentina’s La Payunia Protected Natural Area sustains a migratory population of guanacos that can travel up to 90 miles (150 kilometers) without interruption—a unique phenomenon in the world for this species. Now, this migration and a host of other species are better protected thanks to the purchase and donation of private lands by WCS Argentina, Greater Good Charities, and GreaterGood.com. Although this land was within the reserve, it was privately owned until this acquisition. “La Payunia is a gem of Argentina, Patagonia, and Mendoza,” said WCS’s Mariano Gonzalez Roglich. “We have been working with the provincial government for over 20 years, spanning different administrations and achieving significant milestones like this one, which reaffirms the province’s commitment to nature conservation.” It also reflects the importance of long-term collaborative work, Gonzalez Roglich said, to which Greater Good Charities and GreaterGood.com have contributed as donors. More: https://lnkd.in/dgtdNKB7
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The Oscar-nominated film Haulout explores the impact of climate change on walrus habitat in the Arctic. Hear from one of the filmmakers, Evgenia Arbugaeva, and WCS’s Martin Robards, Natalie Cash, and Jonathan Slaght on this week’s #WCSWildAudio. You can also catch Haulout as part of the Friday, April 4, screening at #reelwildny. 🔊 https://apple.co/4iE2eRq
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The next #pandemic is not a matter of if, but when, unless strong action is taken. Multi-sectoral surveillance across human, animal, and environmental health data is critical, say WCS's Sarah Olson, Michel Masozera, and Manoly Sisavanh. The proposed pandemic agreement being negotiated at the World Health Organization has the potential to make this achievable and sustainable. https://lnkd.in/en7kxRRh
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