Chelsea Clinton will meet with New York students and families to share her new children’s book DON’T LET THEM DISAPPEAR on Tuesday, April 2nd at the Bronx Zoo. In this beautifully-illustrated picture book, Clinton partners with acclaimed illustrator Gianna Marino to introduce young readers to a selection of endangered animals and share what makes them special, what threatens them, and what we can do to help them survive. April 2 at 3:15 PM Reading and signing Bronx Zoo Schiff Family ...

A sweeping new census published in the journal Environmental Research Letters estimates 52,800 western chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) live in eight countries in western Africa, with most of them found outside of protected areas, some of which are threatened by intense development pressures.

The Coney Island Polar Bear Club has announced donations totaling over $60,000 to local nonprofits in the Coney Island community, including a $20,000 donation for the New York Aquarium’s local marine conservation efforts.

Fifty-two clans on Manus Island, Papua New Guinea (PNG), recently renewed conservation agreements to protect 43,000 Hectares of their forested land areas.

WCS applauds New York State Assemblyman Steve Englebright, Chair of the Environmental Conservation Committee, for his introduction of A. 6600, a bill that will protect vulnerable species. 

WCS EU applauds the competent Chamber Committee for supporting the Law proposal 54K3202001, which once adopted will ban domestic sales, export and import of elephant ivory within, from, and to Belgium.

Conservationists from WCS’s Tanzania Program say translocated zebras are flourishing in Kitulo National Park.

The John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act was signed into law today. 

A new study maps nature’s strongholds where the world’s threatened species can take refuge from the ravages of unregulated hunting, land clearing, and other industrial activities.

The Wildlife Conservation Society’s New York Aquarium has been named a finalist for the 2019 National Medal for Museum and Library Service award.