Updates

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Species that are vital yet vulnerable are thriving at sites where WCS has worked the longest—including tigers, which have increased by 40 percent in the last decade thanks to our science, partnerships, and enduring presence on the ground.

Family favorites like the Bronx Zoo’s World of Birds—which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year—teach millions of visitors each year about conservation. Expert staff at our four zoos and aquarium also lead efforts to reestablish animal populations in nature.

Forest cover is on the rise in Mesoamerica’s Maya forest, which means that jaguars, scarlet macaws, spider monkeys, and many more species have a chance to thrive. This is just one example of the kind of results we’re achieving in more than 50 countries around the world on land and at sea.

WCS is protecting our planet’s forests, peatlands, and other ecosystems essential to curbing the climate crisis, from the Congo Basin—Earth’s largest tropical net carbon sink—to Canada’s Hudson Bay Lowlands (pictured).

WCS is leading the charge to stop the commercial trade in live wildlife for human consumption, with anti-wildlife-trafficking teams on the ground in 30 countries—the largest presence of any conservation organization. We’re also developing WildHealthNet, the first-ever global early warning system to prevent disease spillover.