Climate change is among the greatest challenges of our time, with devastating impacts for people and biodiversity across the globe. WCS’s Forest and Climate Change Program works on innovative ...

WCS Graduate Scholarship Program The WCS Graduate Scholarship Program (GSP) is part of a WCS strategy to invest in developing individual conservation leaders around the world. The GSP provides access ...

The savannas, forests, and wetlands of the Sudano-Sahel region form the core belt of the Sudano-Sahelian zone, supporting key populations of endangered savanna and forest elephant, northern giraffe ...

Saving Wild Places Over the past century, WCS has established long-term conservation presence in the last wild places across the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Oceania, built strong and trusting ...

Right now, WCS conservationists are working on the ground around the world to save some of the most spectacular and imperiled wildlife on the planet. We need your help to continue this important work.

“The world’s biodiversity is facing threats from all angles. Wilderness areas are vanishing and fauna and flora species are facing extinction like never before. The team at The Wildlife Conservation ...

Hudson Canyon The U.S. Federal Government is considering naming the largest submarine canyon along the Atlantic Coast a National Marine Sanctuary. It's a once-in-a-generation opportunity to support ...

Protected areas are not only vital to iconic wildlife such as tigers, elephants, gorillas, manta rays, and bears, they also conserve less charismatic species that might otherwise be lost. They are ...

Hiking in the hills of northern Pakistan in the 1970s, WCS Senior Conservationist George Schaller spotted a snow leopard some 150 feet away. "Wisps of clouds swirled around," he later wrote in Stones ...

Ensure Any Hunting of Big Cats' Prey Species is Legal and Sustainable Critical to saving big cats is to conserve their prey. In areas where all hunting is illegal, such as most protected areas, ...

The greatest threats to Asian elephants are habitat loss, fragmentation, and degradation; illegal killing (e.g. for their ivory and other products or in retaliation for human-elephant conflicts); and ...

Where We Work Arctic Beringia lies at the juncture of the eastern and western hemispheres, encompassing an area of tundra and highly productive shallow marine shelf areas that extend from the Kolyma ...