Our goal is to conserve the world's largest wild places in 14 priority regions, habitat for around 50% of the world’s biodiversity and a wide range of charismatic megafauna.

How will we get there? WCS is implementing conservation programs all over the world to mitigate the impacts of CO2 emissions, and help affected people adapt to climate change: We are protecting large ...

To contribute WCS's scientific, technical, and policy expertise to international discussions between governments and influence international policies and commitments that will benefit wildlife and ...

Help people protect the wildlife and natural systems meaningful to them, while ensuring that local families do not unjustly shoulder the costs of establishing and sustainably managing protected areas.

Gorillas are some of our closest relatives in the wild, but today they're in trouble. This World Gorilla Day, Monday, Sept. 24, the challenges for both species are great. As a longtime leader in ...

With their beauty, power, and speed, jaguars are the iconic big cat of the Americas. Today, their future is in our hands. International Jaguar Day, November 29, highlights the pressing need to ...

We do this working in close partnership with governments, Indigenous People and local communities, and civil society groups. At WCS, we support our partners to develop and implement highly focused, ...

The giant Ibis went unrecorded for more than 50 years until it was rediscovered by WCS in 1993. The Critically Endangered giant ibis is the largest ibis in the world, twice the size of the second ...

Over at PBS Nature, WCS's Daniel Zarin lays out 4 things we must do to address the climate crisis. “The question at hand is whether we have the wherewithal to change our fate.” The High Integrity ...

Many states require charities that solicit funds from the public to register with the state agency regulating charities. Although a copy of our financial report is available by writing to Wildlife ...

Last year, direct public subsidies that promote fossil fuel production and consumption jumped to $1.4 trillion in the G-20 countries alone. Is it any wonder, ask WCS's Monica Medina and Daniel Zarin ...

Donal Yeang is the Social Safeguard Technical Advisor for WCS-Cambodia. He provides technical support on REDD+ and safeguards for the Keo Seima REDD+ project and other WCS REDD+ initiatives in the ...