Updates on COVID-19
Get all of the latest WCS reports, news, and commentary related to the pandemic.
Read MoreWCS Leadership at One Planet Summit
The world is facing three major crises today: the loss of biodiversity, climate change, and the pandemic, WCS's CEO and President Cristian Samper said at the event. They are all inter-related. We need to recognize these synergies and find win-win solutions.
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Measuring Forest Integrity
WCS and its science partners have produced the first measure of ecological integrity for all the world’s forests. It shows only 40% of them have high integrity.
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Zoos and Aquarium
Through our five zoological parks in New York, we're able to connect people to animals and nature and inspire them to care about conservation.
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Education
WCS has been advancing science education and increasing ecological literacy since 1929. Today, more than 150,000 students participate in classes, tours, and outreach programs each year at our four zoos and our aquarium.
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WCS at 125
We celebrate over a century of successes at saving wildlife and wild places, powered by the expertise and science in our zoos, aquarium, and global conservation program.
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In the news
Priotize Biodiversity
Part of pandemic preparedness is acknowledging that human, wildlife, and ecological health are inseparable, writes WCS's Susan Lieberman and Christian Walzer.
Discovery is Big News
A female turtle found in October 2020 in Viet Nam is definitively the near extinct Swinhoe’s softshell turtle.
We Stand for Wildlife
Join more than one million wildlife lovers working to save the Earth's most treasured and threatened species.
