New York, Oct. 15, 2024 – The interlinked global crises of biodiversity loss, climate change, and threats to human and wildlife health are continuing to accelerate, posing existential threats to biodiversity and human well-being and undermining efforts to implement the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF). Maintaining and improving ecological integrity–ecosystem structure, function, and composition–is central to addressing all these crises, and the importance of ecological integ...

NEW YORK, NY, October 10, 2024 – New research from the University of Sydney, WCS, and partners shows that international conservation efforts account for approximately 10 percent of fish on coral reefs. The global study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, was carried out by Professor Joshua Cinner from theSchool of Geosciences and Dr Iain Caldwell from the Wildlife Conservation Society. The international research team als...

NAIROBI, KENYA and KIGALI, RWANDA, October 8, 2024 — In a world where poverty alleviation and conservation are often juxtaposed, an innovative partnership seeks to reshape the future of both people and planet. Today, Village Enterprise and Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) announce the scaling up of their partnership after nearly a decade of working together to address two critical issues simultaneously: extreme poverty and wildlife conservation. Across sub-Saharan Africa, communities...

MAPUTO, MOZAMBIQUE, October 2, 2024 – A new study led by staff from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) in East Africa has used a predictive artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm to confirm the location of previously-unmapped high marine biodiversity areas along Mozambique’s extensive coastline. Leveraging satellite data on temperature, water quality, sediments, and ocean currents, researchers were able to identify a shortlist of environmental conditions that best support a h...

(NEW YORK – September 27, 2024) – A group of economists and other experts from the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) today released a joint guide called “A Ministry Playbook for Corresponding Adjustment – Pricing strategies in carbon markets” outlining an initial set of key considerations to give confidence to national governments when evaluating complex tradeoffs between selling carbon credits in the Voluntary Carbon Market (V...

New York City Climate Week is held annually in conjunction with the United Nations General Assembly. Climate change is already reshaping our world. Nature can serve as an essential part of the solution. These are the key messages WCS is sharing this week. Climate Change is Changing Everything The world has underestimated the extent to which climate change is already reshaping our world. The latest models also show the future impacts of climate change hitting far harder, far ...

BRONX, NY, September 24, 2024 — Today, the Bronx Zoo and Macy’s have announced that for the first time, the Bronx Zoo will join the 98th Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade®. The float, titled Wondrous World of Wildlife, will make its debut in honor of the Bronx Zoo’s 125th anniversary and will display representations of the zoo’s extraordinary animals and beloved exhibits in front of millions live in New York and millions more nationwide on Thursday, November 28. ...

Bronx, New York, September 18, 2024 -- The WCS Library and Archives, based at the Bronx Zoo, released its newly digitized Department of Tropical Research (DTR) Film Collection. The project was funded by the Council on Library and Information Resources’ (CLIR) Recordings at Risk grant, supported by the Mellon Foundation. The project has brought 64 historical film reels to the public, capturing a unique record of WCS’s DTR expeditions from the 1920s through the 1960s. These exped...

New York City, Sept. 13, 2024 --  Dr. Charles C.Y. Xu has joined the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) Health Program as a postdoctoral scientist funded by a prestigious 3-year fellowship from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF). The research proposal, titled “Understanding the ecological drivers and genomic mechanisms of wildlife viral emergence caused by deforestation in Cambodia,” was funded through the NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship...

BRONX, N.Y. – September 10, 2024 — Tickets go on sale today for the holiday season with New York City’s favorite festive tradition: Holiday Lights at the Bronx Zoo. During select evenings from November 22 through January 5, the park is illuminated as millions of lights and hundreds of lanterns bring majestic animals and wild places to life. Proudly sponsored by Con Edison, Holiday Lights is an immersive, walkthrough experience that is perfect fo...