Health
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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The following statement is by Dr. Susan Lieberman, WCS Vice President of Internation Policy, addressing the 4th meeting of the International Negotiating Body (INB) of the World Health Organization (WHO) is in the process of drafting and...
Read the storySay Ahhh! Fruit Bat Gets a Check-up in the Republic of Congo
The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) released an image of scientists testing a straw-colored fruit bat (Eidolon helvum) by taking a swab to test it for zoonotic diseases such as the Ebola virus.
Read the storyWCS Welcomes the New EU Global Health Strategy
WCS is issuing the following statements concerning the new EU Global Health Strategy - Better Health for All in a Changing World.
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