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NEW YORK, NY | January 27, 2021

WCS Supports Biden-Harris Bold Plans to Tackle the World’s Climate Crisis and Protect the Environment

A statement was issued today by the Wildlife Conservation Society in response to the Biden-Harris Administration’s Executive Orders to address the global climate crisis, protect the environment, and place science at the center of these solutions:

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MAPUTO, Mozambique | January 26, 2021

Southern Africa’s Most Endangered Shark Just Extended its Range by 2,000 Kilometers

A team of marine scientists led by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) has confirmed that southern Africa’s most threatened endemic shark – the Critically Endangered shorttail nurse shark (Pseudoginglymostoma brevicaudatum) – has been found to occur in Mozambique; a finding that represents a range extension of more than 2,000 kilometers (1,242 miles).

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BOZEMAN, Montana | January 19, 2021

Disease Threatens to Decimate Western Bats

A four-year study recently published in Ecology and Evolution concludes that the fungal disease, white-nose syndrome, poses a severe threat to many western North American bats.

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NEW YORK, N.Y. | January 14, 2021

“Resistance-Resilience-Transformation”: New Classification Marks Paradigm Shift in how Conservationists Tackle Climate Change

A new study co-authored by researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society’s (WCS) Global Conservation Program and the University of British Columbia (UBC) Faculty of Forestry introduces a classification called Resistance-Resilience-Transformation (RRT) that enables the assessment of whether and to what extent a management shift toward transformative action is occurring in conservation.

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PARIS, France | January 11, 2021

Statement by Cristián Samper, President and CEO, Wildlife Conservation Society, at the One Planet Summit, January 11, 2021 (English, French, Spanish)

WCS's President and CEO Cristián Samper's statement at the One Planet Summit, held on January 11, 2021

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PULLMAN, Washington | January 05, 2021

CLIMATE CONFLICT: Rare Footage Captured of Jaguar Killing Ocelot at Waterhole

In what may be a sign of climate-change-induced conflict, researchers have captured rare photographic evidence of a jaguar killing another predatory wild cat at an isolated waterhole in Guatemala.

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HA NOI, Viet Nam | December 18, 2020

World’s Most Endangered Turtle Gets Some Good News In 2020

The Ha Noi Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, in collaboration with the Asian Turtle Program (ATP) of Indo-Myanmar Conservation (IMC) and the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) have made dramatic progress to possibly prevent the extinction of Swinhoe’s softshell turtle (Rafetus swinhoei) also known as the Yangtze giant softshell turtle or or Hoan Kiem turtle.

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Dar es Salaam, TANZANIA | December 09, 2020

Rare climate refuge for coral reefs discovered off the coast of Kenya and Tanzania

A recent study has uncovered a small area off the coast of Kenya and Tanzania harboring a vast array of ocean life.

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BYRON BAY, Australia | December 08, 2020

New Forest Landscape Integrity Index Reveals that Only 40 Percent of World’s Forests Have High Integrity

WCS and science partners have produced the first measure of ecological integrity for all the world’s forests, the Forest Landscape Integrity Index.

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NEW YORK, NY | December 04, 2020

A Whale of a Tale: Acoustic Monitoring in the Upper and Lower New York Bay

WCS's Ocean Giants experts will speak at the Hudson River Foundation's Edward A. Ames Seminar on Monday, December 7th from 2-3:30 pm ET.

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