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...

BRONX, N.Y. — September 6, 2024— This October, the New York Aquarium is getting into the Halloween spirit with the return of Ascarium. ​​Ascarium is a family-friendly festival that takes over the New York Aquarium during the last two weekends of October. Perfect for all ages, guests will enjoy a variety of fall entertainment, activities, and parades while learning about the incredible (and sometimes spooky!) marine wildlife at the aquarium. Included with admission, families can sp...

BRAZZAVILLE, REPUBLIC OF CONGO, September 5, 2024 - To help finance the protection of the world’s remaining high integrity forests, Congo’s Minister of Forest Economy and WCS have launched on August 30 Africa’s first HIFOR project in Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park. HIFOR (the High Integrity Forest Investment Initiative) was created by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) to address the lack of market-based finance for tropical forests that retain high ecological integrity. ...

BRONX, N.Y. – September 3, 2024 -– The Bronx Zoo’s favorite fall tradition, Boo at the Zoo, returns for another year of family fun. On Saturdays and Sundays from September 28 to October 27 (and Monday, October 14th), zoo guests can get into the spooky spirit as new and returning Halloween festivities come to life throughout the park and make unforgettable fall memories with family and friends. Tickets are now available here. Fall is one of the best times to spend t...

New York, August 22, 2024 – This Friday, August 23, marks the first celebration of International Guanaco Day, a celebratory day agreed upon by 40 governmental, academic, Indigenous, and civil society organizations, mainly from the countries inhabited by this native herbivore (Lama guanicoe) that connects landscapes and cultures in South America. Over the past 200 years, the guanaco population has decreased from around 20 million individuals to approximately 2.5 million. Currently, ...

Credit: WCS Indonesia/Cani Marcus Singkil Wildlife Reserve in Aceh Province in Indonesia has the highest density of Sumatran orangutans, a critically endangered great ape species, only found in the northern part of Sumatra. They use twigs and branches to collect insects and worms inside tree trunks to adapt their lifestyle with the swampy habitat there. The Rawa Singkil Wildlife Reserve is a habitat for Critically Endangered and protected Sumatran orangutans, Sumatran tigers, and other spe...

Calabar, Nigeria, August 16, 2024 -- As Nigeria's elephant population approaches survival threshold, the federal government, supported by the Wildlife Conservation Society and the Elephant Protection Initiative, has adopted a ten-year plan to protect the country's remaining 400 pachyderms. While its elephant population has declined by 99%, Nigeria has become the main exit point for wildlife products from Africa, with nearly a quarter of the world's seized ivory shipped throug...