Wildlife Conservation Society

Friday updates from HIFOR ⬇

🌍 Rangers from around the world are gathering at the 10th IRF World Ranger Congress in France to highlight their vital role in protecting and restoring nature for people and the planet.    Rangers protect ecosystems, manage resources and enforce wildlife laws. They engage communities, educate visitors, and manage human-wildlife conflicts. They are Indigenous Peoples, volunteers, government staff, and nonprofit members—working tirelessly to protect and restore our planet.   As key players in global conservation, including the 30x30 goal to protect 30% of land and seas by 2030, what do they need to be more effective?   Stay tuned to learn more about their crucial work.    #WorldRangerCongress #ConservationHeroes #30x30

The majority of the world wants to see stronger actions from their governments to address climate change and biodiversity loss, says David Cooper of UN Biodiversity. Listen to our interview with David for Part 1 of #WCSWildAudio for #CoP16Colombia: https://t.co/nDOWZ7cWTg

It’s prime time for whale watching in New York, writes Gothamist. “People are now becoming more accustomed and more familiar with seeing whales and seeing dolphins off of our shores,” says WCS’s Howard Rosenbaum. https://lnkd.in/dT6C4gh8 #NewYork #whales

NEWS: #ArtificialIntelligence helped a WCS-led scientific team confirm the location of previously-unmapped high marine #biodiversity areas along Mozambique’s extensive coastline. This technology enabled WCS, conservation partners, and the government to accelerate progress by highlighting #coral reef hotspots for further investigation. "These areas have the potential to become Key Biodiversity Areas or future protected areas, prioritized for protection and improved management," said WCS's Hugo Costa. Read more: https://lnkd.in/dNQTU-Fg

The upcoming UN Biodiversity Conference will be an important moment to evaluate progress on the Global Biodiversity Framework that was adopted in 2022, says WCS's Dr. Susan Lieberman. ➡️ We are calling for ambitious outcomes: wcs.org/cbd-cop16 #CBDCoP16 #CoP16Colombia #KMGBF

It was a great evening at the Central Park Zoo yesterday, as our team, with partners Ronald McDonald House New York and New York City Public Schools, hosted our 2nd Dream Night. It's an inclusive and educational cost-free evening for children with special healthcare needs and disabilities. The guests had the zoo to themselves along with keeper chats, animals encounters, and more. #education

We officially completed our 2024 aerial survey in the Greater Ruaha Katavi Landscape in #Tanzania. For four weeks, the WCS Tanzania team and our partners flew across the vast landscape using three aircrafts, collecting and documenting data and information on wildlife numbers and the animals' distribution in this landscape. We have been carrying out aerial surveys every three years here. This is the third of those aerial surveys. It's important for us to see the status of animals in the area, for more targeted #conservation approaches, as a measure of the impact of our work, and for informing decision makers. We look forward to sharing the findings of this survey once they're released by our partner the Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute.

"An undercurrent of joy." Sir David Attenborough responds to his visit to Cambridge where he discussed the transformational work of the Cambridge Conservation Initiative (CCI). Sir David spoke with experts from across the CCI partnership about the ground-breaking results that are being achieved through innovative, collaborative projects. At WCS, we are proud to be among the CCI partners. https://bit.ly/4dnWojZ

With Environmental Defense Fund, we've released a pricing strategies guide for countries to optimize #carbon market finance. The guide aims to help countries navigate uncertainties in markets to maximize carbon revenues while achieving #climate responsibilities. https://lnkd.in/eUJddSn2