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Why WCS?
WCS has been the pioneer in promoting wildlife health as critical to saving wildlife and wild places. We develop and implement solutions that achieve long-term conservation success and create a healthier world. By engaging partners across conservation, public health, agriculture, and beyond, we provide critical information that influences policy and action. WCS initiated and remains a leader in the One World – One Health™ interdisciplinary approach.
100 years
WCS has more than 100 years of hands-on veterinary work, disease surveillance, and groundbreaking scientific research to its name.
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