New York, April 29, 2025 – A king vulture chick at the Bronx Zoo is being hand-raised using a technique developed more than 40 years ago which helps prevent the young bird from imprinting on humans. The chick, hatched February 25, is being hand-raised to ensure its successful development as some vulture parents can be neglectful toward their chicks. This king vulture chick’s genetics are valuable to the king vulture zoo population as its father, who is 55 years old,...

New York, NY, April 28, 2025 – The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) is proud to announce that Bank of America, the Central Africa Forest Initiative (CAFI), the Good Energies Foundation, and the UBS Optimus Foundation have made financial commitments to the High Integrity Forest Investment (HIFOR) Initiative. This groundbreaking global financial mechanism aims to accelerate investments to conserve high-integrity tropical forests worldwide. As areas that are relatively undisturbed and...

BRONX, NY, April 26, 2025 — More than 5,000 runners and walkers made tracks today to support the conservation of Critically Endangered Indian Gharial and other wildlife at the WCS Run for the Wild at the Bronx Zoo. The Wildlife Conservation Society’s run, in its 17th year, was sponsored by Montefiore Einstein. Since the run debuted at the Bronx Zoo in 2009, more than 85,000 people have participated. Each year, the WCS Run for the Wild is dedicated to an animal to rais...

BRONX, N.Y., April 22, 2025 — The 17th Annual WCS Run for the Wild is this Saturday, April 26, at the Bronx Zoo. This year’s event is inspired by the critically endangered Indian gharial and will help support the Wildlife Conservation Society’s (WCS) work at the Bronx Zoo and around the world in protecting gharials and other wildlife. To register go HERE. What: WCS Run for the Wild A 5K race for individual runners; casual runners and walkers can take pa...

New York, NY (April 18, 2025) – A first-of-its-kind research expedition to Latham Island has unveiled one of Tanzania’s most ecologically significant marine ecosystems, with thriving seabird colonies, critically endangered sharks, and climate-resilient coral reefs. The findings—gathered by researchers from WCS and partner institutions like Université de la Reunion, the Ministry of Blue Economy and Fisheries in Zanzibar, and the Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries in Mai...

New York, April 16, 2025-- It may take 100 years for the southern elephant seal colony of Península Valdés in Argentine Patagonia to look like it did in 2022. A study published in Marine Mammal Science has projected population trajectories after the 2023 epidemic of the High Pathogenicity Avian Influenza H5N1 virus, which killed almost all newborn pups and an unknown number of adults.  Had the episode killed only pups, the future population could recover to 2022 ...

Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, April 16, 2025 –  A scientific paper recently published reveals that soil scratching by gorillas in Congo’s Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park is a foraging strategy to access a species of deer truffle, identified as Elaphomyces labyrinthinus, and not insects, as long assumed. These findings were developed by Gaston Abea, who became the first Indigenous Person in Ndoki to become the lead author of a peer-reviewed scientific paper.  ...

Geneva, April 13, 2025 – The historic finalization of a groundbreaking International Agreement on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response took another positive step here on Saturday. The parties reached an agreement on principles and on Tuesday they are expected to finalize it before the World Health Assembly adopts the agreement when they convene May 19-27th. Dr. Chris Walzer, Wildlife Conservation Society’s Executive Director of Health, said: "Reaching this s...

BRONX, N.Y. — April 11, 2025 — Dinosaur Safari is making its return to the Bronx Zoo, starting Saturday, April 12, guests can visit and get up close with some of the largest animals that ever roamed the Earth. Dinosaur Safari is a beloved tradition that features more than 60 life-size animatronic dinosaurs and pterosaurs (some as long as 66 feet) with a new experience that immerses guests in a prehistoric past that disappeared millions of years ago. The experience draws attention ...

New York, April 10, 2025 – Scarlet macaws in Mesoamerica are highly threatened by poaching and habitat loss. In Guatemala’s Maya Biosphere Reserve, only a few hundred remain. The Wildlife Conservation Society Guatemala team works at a remote site to save the birds by hand-raising low-weight chicks, or third or fourth eggs. In the wild, these chicks typically do not survive. The chicks are genetically in good condition, however, and do fine once hand-raised. After t...