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How can One Health stakeholders act on the @who.int Pandemic Agreement to mitigate the risk of pathogen spillover in international wildlife trade? New article co-authored by WCS’s Susan Lieberman offers a four-point path forward. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Pandemic Agreement implementation agenda for international wildlife trade
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January 10, 2026 at 3:20 PM
How can One Health stakeholders act on the @who.int Pandemic Agreement to mitigate the risk of pathogen spillover in international wildlife trade? New article co-authored by WCS’s Susan Lieberman offers a four-point path forward. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
WCS co-authored science has expanded the known range for a little-known bat species into La Moskitia, 1 of the Five Great Forests of Central America. Working with the local community and other partners, the scientists used acoustic monitoring to identify the presence of the chestnut sac-winged bat.
January 9, 2026 at 7:34 PM
WCS co-authored science has expanded the known range for a little-known bat species into La Moskitia, 1 of the Five Great Forests of Central America. Working with the local community and other partners, the scientists used acoustic monitoring to identify the presence of the chestnut sac-winged bat.
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🌍 The late Gustavo Fonseca’s legacy lives on through the Fonseca Leadership Program.
The GEF & @wcs.org invite applications for the Young Leaders in Africa Fellowship, which supports top African conservationists for Master’s/Ph.D. studies.
To learn more: wcs.org/about-us/gra...
The GEF & @wcs.org invite applications for the Young Leaders in Africa Fellowship, which supports top African conservationists for Master’s/Ph.D. studies.
To learn more: wcs.org/about-us/gra...
January 8, 2026 at 4:00 PM
🌍 The late Gustavo Fonseca’s legacy lives on through the Fonseca Leadership Program.
The GEF & @wcs.org invite applications for the Young Leaders in Africa Fellowship, which supports top African conservationists for Master’s/Ph.D. studies.
To learn more: wcs.org/about-us/gra...
The GEF & @wcs.org invite applications for the Young Leaders in Africa Fellowship, which supports top African conservationists for Master’s/Ph.D. studies.
To learn more: wcs.org/about-us/gra...
The 10th Annual WCS Youth JIVE (Job, Internship & Volunteering Expo) will be held on Saturday, February 7, at the Bronx Zoo.
The event connects young people to meaningful opportunities across our five NYC zoos and aquarium.
✅ 🌎 Register today: bronxzoo.com/jive
The event connects young people to meaningful opportunities across our five NYC zoos and aquarium.
✅ 🌎 Register today: bronxzoo.com/jive
January 8, 2026 at 2:23 PM
The 10th Annual WCS Youth JIVE (Job, Internship & Volunteering Expo) will be held on Saturday, February 7, at the Bronx Zoo.
The event connects young people to meaningful opportunities across our five NYC zoos and aquarium.
✅ 🌎 Register today: bronxzoo.com/jive
The event connects young people to meaningful opportunities across our five NYC zoos and aquarium.
✅ 🌎 Register today: bronxzoo.com/jive
Each Fall, billions of birds leave North America for the Five Great Forests in Central America, recent science co-authored by WCS and @cornellbirds.bsky.social showed.
But, if we don’t act, we could lose these forests: programs.wcs.org/5greatforest... 🌎
But, if we don’t act, we could lose these forests: programs.wcs.org/5greatforest... 🌎
January 7, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Each Fall, billions of birds leave North America for the Five Great Forests in Central America, recent science co-authored by WCS and @cornellbirds.bsky.social showed.
But, if we don’t act, we could lose these forests: programs.wcs.org/5greatforest... 🌎
But, if we don’t act, we could lose these forests: programs.wcs.org/5greatforest... 🌎
What can we learn from the bird flu outbreak that wiped out a generation of seals in Patagonia? Humanity must adopt and invest in the #OneHealth concept, write researchers from WCS Argentina. 🌎
How a Bird Flu Outbreak Wiped Out a Generation of Seals in Patagonia—and What It Means for Wildlife Conservation
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January 6, 2026 at 7:14 PM
What can we learn from the bird flu outbreak that wiped out a generation of seals in Patagonia? Humanity must adopt and invest in the #OneHealth concept, write researchers from WCS Argentina. 🌎
Amur tigers were all but written off in China only 25 years ago, WCS’s @jonathanslaght.com says. “Since then, habitat protections and anti-poaching efforts have allowed them to triumphantly return.”
🌏 news.mongabay.com/short-articl...
🌏 news.mongabay.com/short-articl...
Camera traps in China capture first-ever footage of Amur tigress with five cubs
Camera traps installed in the world’s largest tiger reserve, in China, have captured footage of an Amur tigress and her five cubs for the first time. Recorded in November 2025, the footage from Northe...
news.mongabay.com
January 5, 2026 at 3:25 PM
Amur tigers were all but written off in China only 25 years ago, WCS’s @jonathanslaght.com says. “Since then, habitat protections and anti-poaching efforts have allowed them to triumphantly return.”
🌏 news.mongabay.com/short-articl...
🌏 news.mongabay.com/short-articl...
Save the ❤️ of the wild. Give your year-end, tax-deductible gift before 2025 ends! It will be matched 3X. secure.wcs.org/donate/givin... 🌎
December 31, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Save the ❤️ of the wild. Give your year-end, tax-deductible gift before 2025 ends! It will be matched 3X. secure.wcs.org/donate/givin... 🌎
Save the ❤️ of the wild. Give your year-end, tax-deductible gift before 2025 ends! Your gift will be matched 3X through Dec. 31. secure.wcs.org/donate/givin...
December 26, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Save the ❤️ of the wild. Give your year-end, tax-deductible gift before 2025 ends! Your gift will be matched 3X through Dec. 31. secure.wcs.org/donate/givin...
Our 12 favorite stories of the year inspired wonder, advanced science, and demonstrated tangible progress for wildlife and wild places around the world to the benefit of us all.
🌎 www.wcs.org/get-involved... #YearInReview
🌎 www.wcs.org/get-involved... #YearInReview
December 23, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Our 12 favorite stories of the year inspired wonder, advanced science, and demonstrated tangible progress for wildlife and wild places around the world to the benefit of us all.
🌎 www.wcs.org/get-involved... #YearInReview
🌎 www.wcs.org/get-involved... #YearInReview
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Pleased to be featured in a collection of diverse viewpoints on coral reef restoration in this issue of One Earth. Read the full collection here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1mIX8_wvRV...
December 20, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Pleased to be featured in a collection of diverse viewpoints on coral reef restoration in this issue of One Earth. Read the full collection here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1mIX8_wvRV...
🔔 🌎 Happy holidays from our WCS teams in New York City and around the world!
December 19, 2025 at 4:20 PM
🔔 🌎 Happy holidays from our WCS teams in New York City and around the world!
Recent successes show us that you can bring tigers back, says WCS’s Luke Hunter. “You can catalyze recovery. And we’re still in the early stages of it in most places, but we see it’s possible.”
🌏 news.mongabay.com/2025/12/hope...
🌏 news.mongabay.com/2025/12/hope...
Hope for tigers grows as Thailand safeguards a key link in their habitat
KANCHANABURI, Thailand — Following the path of the tiger isn’t easy. Yet the three rangers, clad in camouflage, move lithely through the steep bamboo thicket, tracking the muddy hoofprints of a sambar...
news.mongabay.com
December 18, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Recent successes show us that you can bring tigers back, says WCS’s Luke Hunter. “You can catalyze recovery. And we’re still in the early stages of it in most places, but we see it’s possible.”
🌏 news.mongabay.com/2025/12/hope...
🌏 news.mongabay.com/2025/12/hope...
Check out these Andean bears at the Queens Zoo. “As young bears, Coya and Ransisku are curious about everything in their environment,” said WCS’s Mike Allen, the zoo’s director. Video taken by a guest. 🌎
December 16, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Check out these Andean bears at the Queens Zoo. “As young bears, Coya and Ransisku are curious about everything in their environment,” said WCS’s Mike Allen, the zoo’s director. Video taken by a guest. 🌎
Great news: Today at #UNEA7, the Women Ocean Guardians initiative welcomed Seychelles and Australia as signatories of the commitment. This coincided with a side event on inclusive and transformative approaches to ocean governance. 🌍
December 12, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Great news: Today at #UNEA7, the Women Ocean Guardians initiative welcomed Seychelles and Australia as signatories of the commitment. This coincided with a side event on inclusive and transformative approaches to ocean governance. 🌍
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New #open-access paper from our team @wcs.org Education. We talk about why cultural institutions are the ideal place to study informal learning and youth development, and how collaboration between internal research and practice teams sets us up for successful design-based research (DBR) practices.
Leveraging Internal Partnerships for Design-Based Research in Museum Education
Design-based research (DBR) is a useful approach for answering research and evaluation questions on both ends of the theoretical-to-applied spectrum because it combines the study of educational pro...
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December 11, 2025 at 7:58 PM
New #open-access paper from our team @wcs.org Education. We talk about why cultural institutions are the ideal place to study informal learning and youth development, and how collaboration between internal research and practice teams sets us up for successful design-based research (DBR) practices.
“They’re hardy,” WCS’s Jake LaBelle tells @nytimes.com of American eels. But they need protection despite their resilience.
🌎 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/n...
🌎 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/n...
Eels in the Bronx: Slimy, Hardy and Hungry
www.nytimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:57 PM
“They’re hardy,” WCS’s Jake LaBelle tells @nytimes.com of American eels. But they need protection despite their resilience.
🌎 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/n...
🌎 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/n...
Congress is finalizing the FY26 National Defense Authorization Act #NDAA. It has major implications for wildlife and wild places worldwide.
📢 🌎 Speak out and let them know strong international conservation programs strengthen national security: secure.wcs.org/campaign/251...
📢 🌎 Speak out and let them know strong international conservation programs strengthen national security: secure.wcs.org/campaign/251...
December 10, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Congress is finalizing the FY26 National Defense Authorization Act #NDAA. It has major implications for wildlife and wild places worldwide.
📢 🌎 Speak out and let them know strong international conservation programs strengthen national security: secure.wcs.org/campaign/251...
📢 🌎 Speak out and let them know strong international conservation programs strengthen national security: secure.wcs.org/campaign/251...
Dr. Iain Douglas-Hamilton, a towering figure in wildlife conservation whose research, passion, and leadership helped shape global efforts to protect elephants, has died.
Read our tribute: newsroom.wcs.org/News-Release...
Read our tribute: newsroom.wcs.org/News-Release...
December 9, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Dr. Iain Douglas-Hamilton, a towering figure in wildlife conservation whose research, passion, and leadership helped shape global efforts to protect elephants, has died.
Read our tribute: newsroom.wcs.org/News-Release...
Read our tribute: newsroom.wcs.org/News-Release...
Today is the 120th anniversary of the founding of the American Bison Society—a conservation milestone that began at WCS’s Bronx Zoo in 1905.
With Theodore Roosevelt as honorary president, the ABS launched an ambitious effort to save the species. Today, our bison conservation efforts continue. 🦬 🌎
With Theodore Roosevelt as honorary president, the ABS launched an ambitious effort to save the species. Today, our bison conservation efforts continue. 🦬 🌎
December 8, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Today is the 120th anniversary of the founding of the American Bison Society—a conservation milestone that began at WCS’s Bronx Zoo in 1905.
With Theodore Roosevelt as honorary president, the ABS launched an ambitious effort to save the species. Today, our bison conservation efforts continue. 🦬 🌎
With Theodore Roosevelt as honorary president, the ABS launched an ambitious effort to save the species. Today, our bison conservation efforts continue. 🦬 🌎
The #CITESCOP20 meeting in Uzbekistan has drawn to a close and we are grateful for a series of landmark decisions that will strengthen trade regulations for threatened species—including many heavily targeted by the global pet trade. Here are a few. 🌏
December 7, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The #CITESCOP20 meeting in Uzbekistan has drawn to a close and we are grateful for a series of landmark decisions that will strengthen trade regulations for threatened species—including many heavily targeted by the global pet trade. Here are a few. 🌏
Science over extinction. At #CITESCOP20, we saw a series of landmark decisions that will strengthen trade regulations for threatened species—and a few that could jeopardize hard-won conservation gains. www.wcs.org/cites-cop20 🌏
December 5, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Science over extinction. At #CITESCOP20, we saw a series of landmark decisions that will strengthen trade regulations for threatened species—and a few that could jeopardize hard-won conservation gains. www.wcs.org/cites-cop20 🌏
The epic fight to save Amur tigers shows it’s “possible for people from different backgrounds to work together and achieve considerable success,” WCS’s @jonathanslaght.com tells @cnn.com.
WCS’s role is detailed in his new book, Tigers Between Empires.
🌏 www.cnn.com/science/sibe...
WCS’s role is detailed in his new book, Tigers Between Empires.
🌏 www.cnn.com/science/sibe...
The epic story behind the recovery of Amur tigers | CNN
From poachers to politics, “Tigers Between Empires” details the 30-year-long international collaboration that set out to study and save Russia’s Siberian tigers.
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December 5, 2025 at 1:49 PM
The epic fight to save Amur tigers shows it’s “possible for people from different backgrounds to work together and achieve considerable success,” WCS’s @jonathanslaght.com tells @cnn.com.
WCS’s role is detailed in his new book, Tigers Between Empires.
🌏 www.cnn.com/science/sibe...
WCS’s role is detailed in his new book, Tigers Between Empires.
🌏 www.cnn.com/science/sibe...
DYK: Canada 🇨🇦 is home to 25% (!!) of the world's peatlands. These are climate-critical ecosystems because of how much carbon they store.
Check out the new National Peatland Strategy released today from @wcscanada.org. ⬇️
Check out the new National Peatland Strategy released today from @wcscanada.org. ⬇️
Canada is home to ~25% of the world’s peatlands, containing around 150 billion tonnes of carbon. But they’re under threat. Today, WCS Canada launched a proposed National Peatland Strategy, built with 100+ experts 🌎
December 4, 2025 at 5:11 PM
DYK: Canada 🇨🇦 is home to 25% (!!) of the world's peatlands. These are climate-critical ecosystems because of how much carbon they store.
Check out the new National Peatland Strategy released today from @wcscanada.org. ⬇️
Check out the new National Peatland Strategy released today from @wcscanada.org. ⬇️
Today is #WildlifeConservationDay and it comes as #CITESCoP20 is nearing a close in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. There, we have seen exciting gains for species in protections from international trade. Get the latest: wcs.org/cites 🌏
December 4, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Today is #WildlifeConservationDay and it comes as #CITESCoP20 is nearing a close in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. There, we have seen exciting gains for species in protections from international trade. Get the latest: wcs.org/cites 🌏