Conservation Support provides technical assistance, analysis, training and capacity building to help strengthen the practice of conservation, both within the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and more broadly in the conservation community.

Conservation Support works closely with WCS’s Regional, Policy, Species and Global Health Programs, with Global Challenges (climate adaptation, extractive industries, livelihoods and health) and with our Living Institutions to help target and prioritize technical assistance and training across the organization.

Established 10 years ago as the Living Landscapes Program, Conservation Support works with WCS staff from around the world to develop and deploy wildlife-focused tools and strategies that help to save wildlife and wild places. Conservation Support provides direct support to WCS projects and programs and undertakes activities to enhance skills, share lessons learned and disseminate best practices across the organization and beyond. We also help WCS to track and credibly report our conservation progress and strategy effectiveness. We use a diversity of approaches, including one-on-one and group training, remote mentoring, distance-learning modules and the production and dissemination of how-to manuals. In these ways, we help our conservation colleagues learn how to make effective use of conservation tools and strategies.

We provide support and documentation (including background, training materials, tools such as software, and examples from field sites around the world) on the following topics:

Established 10 years ago as the Living Landscapes Program, Conservation Support works with WCS staff from around the world to develop and deploy wildlife-focused tools and strategies that help to save wildlife and wild places. Conservation Support provides direct support to WCS projects and programs and undertakes activities to enhance skills, share lessons learned and disseminate best practices across the organization and beyond. We also help WCS to track and credibly report our conservation progress and strategy effectiveness. We use a diversity of approaches, including one-on-one and group training, remote mentoring, distance-learning modules and the production and dissemination of how-to manuals. In these ways, we help our conservation colleagues learn how to make effective use of conservation tools and strategies.

We provide support and documentation (including background, training materials, tools such as software, and examples from field sites around the world) on the following topics: