A group from the American Jewish-Italian Jewish High School Youth Exchange Program, which includes Jewish students from Rome and from the U.S., stand in front of the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Bronx Zoo’s historic Fountain Circle during a visit to the zoo on Tuesday, March 15, 2011. The recently restored fountain once stood in Como, Italy. The group represents a joint effort between the World Jewish Congress, Jewish Community of Italy, the American Rabbinate, and the Italian Foreign Ministr...

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A four-year WCS study finds the Teshekpuk Lake region within the National Petroleum Reserve to hold the highest breeding bird density in Arctic Alaska—one solid reason for its permanent protection from energy development.

The WCS Bronx Zoo, Buffalo Zoo, and New York State DEC team up to save one of the largest salamanders in the world—the eastern hellbender, AKA “devil dog,” “Allegheny alligator,” or “snot otter.”

WCS recommends Alaska’s Lake Teshekpuk be granted permanent protection from energy development Study identifies area as a critical avian breeding site and nursery NEW YORK (March 9, 2011) – A new study by the Wildlife Conservation Society reveals the critical  importance of western Arctic Alaska’s Teshekpuk Lake region to tens of thousands of birds that breed in the area during the brief, but productive arctic summers, a...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (March 2, 2010) – The U.S. Senate is poised to eliminate funding for the U.S. Forest Service Office of International Programs (FSIP) within the Fiscal Year 2011 Continuing Resolution. The program, which represents less than one-tenth of one percent of the federal budget, protects U.S. timber markets from the flow of illegal logging abroad and works with China and Russia to address such invasive species as Emerald Ash Borer and the Asian Gypsy moth, both of which threaten million...

WCS applauds the bipartisan effort in the House of Representatives to defeat an amendment to the Continuing Resolution funding bill for Fiscal Year 2011, which would have drastically hurt such programs as the Global Environment Facility that are critical to economic development, national security, and wildlife.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (March 1, 2011) – The Wildlife Conservation Society applauded the bipartisan effort in the House of Representatives to defeat an amendment to the Continuing Resolution funding bill for Fiscal Year 2011, which would have drastically hurt such programs as the Global Environment Facility (GEF) that are critical to economic development, national security and wildlife. Members of Congress from both parties, including Rep. Michael Grimm (R-NY), took the House floor to extol the benefi...

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