I hope you feel as proud as I do when you read through the results we share in this year’s Impact Report—which are all thanks to your generous support of our mission to save wildlife and wild places.
—Alejandro Santo Domingo Chair of the Board
Meet President & CEO Adam Falk
2025 Impact Highlights
Video Spotlight
Video Spotlight
Saving Wildlife
Saving Wildlife
Protecting Nature’s Strongholds
Protecting Nature’s Strongholds
WCS IMPACT around the world
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20 million+ km2 of land and sea protected and restored across 55+ countries
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Conserves habitat for more than 40% of the world’s biodiversity
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430+ protected areas WCS helped create since our founding
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350+ peer-reviewed scientific publications on average each year
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440+ local partners including local communities, Indigenous Peoples, and national government agencies
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Most of our scientists, conservationists, animal experts, and other dedicated staff are from the countries where they work 95% are nationals
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160+ scholarships awarded by WCS to emerging conservation leaders in the last 3 decades
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5 wildlife parks in New York City
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18,000+ animals cared for at our zoos and aquarium
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Welcomed 3.5 million visitors in 2024
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Reached 1.5 million+ students, educators, and families with science education programming annually
2030 Goals
Connecting People to Nature
Inspire millions of people to advocate for the conservation of wildlife and wild places
Saving Wildlife
WCS seeks to stabilize, recover, and increase priority species across the landscapes and seascapes where we work.
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Whales & Dolphins
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Elephants
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Big Cats
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Sharks & Rays
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Apes
Protecting Nature’s Strongholds
WCS will help nations scale up conservation, supporting protected and conserved areas that sustain tropical forests, peatlands, grasslands, oceans, and other key ecosystems.
Our efforts to conserve Nature’s Strongholds will help drive global progress on climate and biodiversity targets:
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Protect and restore natural systems, which could offer as much as 1/3 of the climate action needed to meet the goals of the Paris climate agreement
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Partner with nations and communities to protect 30 percent of the planet by 2030
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Advance policies toward ending wildlife trade and preventing zoonotic pandemics
Where WCS Works
Saving Wildlife And Wild Places
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