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.

“The world’s biodiversity is facing threats from all angles. Wilderness areas are vanishing and fauna and flora species are facing extinction like never before. The team at WCS is relentless in its ...

In a strategic role to influence and advance better global conservation decision-making processes and policies. In a technical role to facilitate robust, climate-sensitive conservation interventions ...

As a Conservation Member, you'll receive added benefits and increase your support of WCS's mission. With your help, our parks will continue to inspire the next generation of conservationists while ...

Right now, WCS conservationists are working on the ground around the world to save some of the most spectacular and imperiled wildlife on the planet. We need your help to continue this important work.

One hundred years ago, the WCS-led Arcturus Expedition documented otherworldly animals just off the coast of New York City. Today, we continue to work to protect Hudson Canyon.

Founded in 1895 as the New York Zoological Society, the Wildlife Conservation Society was one of the first conservation organizations in the U.S. The Society began with a clear mandate: Advance ...

In recent decades, deforestation has caused a dramatic decline in Andean bear populations, and estimates suggest fewer than 18,000 bears now survive in the wild. This threat will only worsen in coming ...

We are protecting regions that are biologically outstanding and where the long-term conservation of species and ecological processes is viable.

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 ...

The climate crisis is happening now. On a global scale. Impacting all life on Earth. Humans, fauna, and flora. As we speak, the world is experiencing a zoonotic pandemic. Species are dying out. Floods ...

Across the planet we collaborate with Indigenous Peoples and local communities to achieve a shared vision for a more secure, inclusive, just, equitable, and resilient future, where wildlife remains a ...