Wildlife is worth fighting for. Our community is growing strong and it will take all of us to protect the species and places we love.

We are celebrating landmark conservation decisions advancing global policy on ecological integrity, wildlife pet trade, synthetic biology, environmental crime, and One Health.

Around the world, big cats are among the most recognized and admired animals, at the top of the food chain. Yet all seven species are listed as Threatened or Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List, with ...

We are protecting regions that are biologically outstanding and where the long-term conservation of species and ecological processes is viable.

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 ...

Tropical forests, highlands, islands, and marine and coastal ecosystems across Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands.

Across the planet we collaborate with Indigenous Peoples and local communities to achieve a shared vision for a more secure, inclusive, just, equitable, and resilient future, where wildlife remains a ...

Founded in 1895 as the New York Zoological Society, the Wildlife Conservation Society was one of the first conservation organizations in the U.S. The Society began with a clear mandate: Advance ...

As human beings, we connect to nature with a force as strong as the pull of gravity. We depend on nature. Zoos, aquariums, botanical gardens, national parks, the conservation movement—indeed, the ...

Our goal is to conserve the world's largest wild places in 14 priority regions, habitat for around 50% of the world’s biodiversity and a wide range of charismatic megafauna.

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 ...