Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS)

Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) was founded in 1895 as the New York Zoological Society (NYZS) and currently works to conserve more than two million square miles of wild places around the world

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How to save coral reefs in the Indian and Pacific Oceans

UCI biologist among data contributors to large, unprecedented project When Joleah Lamb strapped on a scuba tank and plunged into the ocean over a decade ago, it was the first of many expeditions to examine the effects of climate change and other human-produced factors on coral. Now, 13 years after that foray, she has contributed

How to save coral reefs in the Indian and Pacific Oceans

Ecotourism direct payment approach for wildlife sightings reduces illegal hunting

A new study by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and Foundations of Success (FOS) finds that an ecotourism strategy based on “direct payments,” where local people are compensated for the amount of wildlife seen by tourists, has resulted in a reduction in illegal hunting and an increase in wildlife sightings. In the study, the scientists

Ecotourism direct payment approach for wildlife sightings reduces illegal hunting

Refuge could preserve climate-sensitive corals

WCS scientists have discovered a refuge for corals where the environment protects otherwise sensitive species to the increasing severity of climate change. The bad news is that the reefs are showing signs of being overfished and weak compliance with local fisheries laws needs to be reversed to maintain the fish that help to keep reefs

Refuge could preserve climate-sensitive corals

Recipe for Saving Coral Reefs: Add More Fish

Scientists seek to ensure survival of coral reefs outside of protected areas by calling for a minimum target of 500 kilograms of fish biomass per hectare Fish are the key ingredients in a new recipe to diagnose and restore degraded coral reef ecosystems, according to scientists from the Australian Institute of Marine Science, WCS, James

Recipe for Saving Coral Reefs: Add More Fish

Drones on a Different Mission

“Expectations are very high in Belize,” Dr. Maaz said. “There’s so much we can do and need to do.” Belize has made a great effort to protect its coral reef system — the largest in the Western Hemisphere — by establishing more than a dozen protected areas. But patrolling large stretches of ocean and coastline

Drones on a Different Mission

New World Map for Overcoming Climate Change

The map will help governments protect people, wildlife and habitat Using data from the world’s ecosystems and predictions of how climate change will impact them, scientists from the Wildlife Conservation Society, the University of Queensland, and Stanford University have produced a roadmap that identifies the world’s most vulnerable and least vulnerable areas in the Age

New World Map for Overcoming Climate Change

Building a Better Fish Trap: WCS Reduces Fish Bycatch With Escape Gaps in Africa

New basket traps designed by WCS and Kenyan Marine and Fisheries Research Institute allow juvenile and non-target fish species to escape while increasing incomes Scientists from the Wildlife Conservation Society and the Kenyan Marine and Fisheries Research Institute have achieved a milestone in Africa: they’ve helped build a better fish trap, one that keeps valuable

Building a Better Fish Trap: WCS Reduces Fish Bycatch With Escape Gaps in Africa

Wildlife face ‘Armageddon’ as forests shrink

Species living in rainforest fragments could be far more likely to disappear than was previously thought, says an international team of scientists. In a study spanning two decades, the researchers witnessed the near-complete extinction of native small mammals on forest islands created by a large hydroelectric reservoir in Thailand. “It was like ecological Armageddon,” said

Wildlife face ‘Armageddon’ as forests shrink

Can Synthetic Biology Save Wildlife?

What effects will the rapidly growing field of synthetic biology have on the conservation of nature? The ecological and ethical challenges stemming from this question will require a new and continuing dialogue between members of the synthetic biology and biodiversity conservation communities, according to authors of a new paper. According to the paper, the field

Can Synthetic Biology Save Wildlife?

Efforts to Resuscitate Extinct Species May Spawn a New Era of the Hybrid

What does de-extinction mean for biology and the environment? A bird that once darkened the skies of the 19th-century U.S. no longer exists, except as well-preserved museum specimens bearing bits of DNA. An ambitious new effort aims to use the latest techniques of genetic manipulation to bring the passenger pigeon back, as North Dakotan Ben Novak,

Efforts to Resuscitate Extinct Species May Spawn a New Era of the Hybrid

Corals and Food Security: Study Shows Nations at Risk

Study helps nations plan for protein alternatives as fisheries decline A new study co-authored by the Wildlife Conservation Society identifies countries most vulnerable to declining coral reef fisheries from a food-security perspective while providing a framework to plan for alternative protein sources needed to replace declining fisheries. The study looked at 27 countries around the

Corals and Food Security: Study Shows Nations at Risk

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Initiate stringent actions against wildlife crimes: Mama Natung to officials
on April 5, 2021 at 6:31 pm
ITANAGAR: The Arunachal Pradesh Environment and Forest department, Wildlife Crime Control Bureau and Bangalore based NGO Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) India ... The event was concluded at State ...
Flying to Save Africa’s Wildlife
on March 30, 2021 at 7:47 am
This piece comes to us from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). To honor Women’s History Month, WCS and Nature are bringing you seven stories of women in the fields of nature and conservation. I ...
Digital collection of 2,200 forgotten wildlife illustrations
on March 23, 2021 at 2:25 am
The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) has released to the public a digital ... wildlife illustrations from its Department of Tropical Research, which it ran from 1916 to 1965.
Digital collection of 2,200 forgotten wildlife illustrations
on March 23, 2021 at 1:55 am
New York, March 23 (IANS) The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS ... became part of the Institute for Research in Animal Behaviour, a joint venture between WCS and Rockefeller University, and ...
Using conservation criminology to understand restaurants' role in urban wild meat trade
on March 18, 2021 at 12:38 pm
A new study in the journal Conservation Science and Practice finds that restaurants in urban areas in Central Africa play a key role in whether protected wildlife winds up on the menu. The study ...

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How Speed Bumps Are Saving Endangered Monkeys in Africa
on April 9, 2021 at 7:09 am
director of species conservation and science in Africa at the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), tells Treehugger. “These animals have also become accustomed to foraging outside the park for food, ...
One of Africa's rarest primates protected by... speedbumps
on April 7, 2021 at 3:30 pm
A new study revealed that a drastic reduction of deaths of one of Africa's rarest primates, the Zanzibar red colobus (Piliocolobus kirkii), followed the installation of four speedbumps along a stretch ...
Female Putty-nosed Monkeys 'Hire' Males to Defend Themselves from Predators: Study
on March 31, 2021 at 9:32 pm
Congo Program and the Nouabale-Ndoki Foundation found that female putty-nosed monkeys (Cercopithecus nictitans) use males as “hired guns” to defend from predators such as leopards. Publishing their ...
Study: Female monkeys use males as "hired guns" for defense against predators
on March 31, 2021 at 10:09 am
BRAZZAVILLE, Republic of Congo (March 31, 2021) - Researchers with the Wildlife Conservation Society's (WCS) Congo Program and the Nouabalé-Ndoki Foundation found that female putty-nosed monkeys ...
Flying to Save Africa’s Wildlife
on March 30, 2021 at 7:47 am
This piece comes to us from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). To honor Women’s History Month, WCS and Nature are bringing you seven stories of women in the fields of nature and conservation. I ...