Congo’s forests are shaped by the presence of elephants—and would be threatened by their absence. On #EndangeredSpeciesDay, your gift to help them and other wildlife gets multiplied 4X. secure.wcs.org/donate/2605-... 🌍

On #EndangeredSpeciesDay, a recent camera trap image of a Cross River gorilla in Nigeria where our WCS. Nigeria team helps protect them. There are less than 300 of them left. But there is hope due to the dedication of local conservationists and communities committed to their conservation.

This week, the Republic of Indonesia’s Minister of Forestry Raja Juli Antoni conducted an official visit to WCS’s Bronx Zoo. During the visit, we reaffirmed our long-standing partnership on biodiversity conservation and national park management.

New conservation corridors in Ecuador. Progress against the wildlife pet trade. Elephant numbers rebounding in East Africa. All gains highlighted in our spring impact report. We couldn’t do it without your support. Read more: www.wcs.org/about-us/abo...

LISTEN: 10 years ago, extraordinary partnerships across geography, culture, and politics helped make the American bison the U.S.’s National Mammal. 🔊 🌎 apple.co/4wr1TJz #WCSWildAudio

A network of Indigenous communities in Congo’s Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park believes that conserving their pristine environment is a safer bet than resource extraction for long-term prosperity, writes @telegraph.co.uk. Read more: www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Today, we celebrate #migratorybirdday but also what becomes possible when forests recover and communities thrive, write WCS’s Jeremy Radachowsky and Anna Lello-Smith. #globalbigday 🌎 www.nydailynews.com/2026/05/09/g...

Bison are iconic. Symbols of unity throughout America’s history. Today, we celebrate 10 years since the American bison was named the U.S. National Mammal. Thank you to all who have worked to ensure the species continues to thrive.

🎂 Happy 100th birthday to Sir David Attenborough! Today, we are working in the places and on the species you inspired us to save. From Joe Walston and all of us at WCS.

Once feared extinct in Cambodia, the Critically Endangered royal turtle is making a comeback. Cambodia’s General Department of Fisheries, with support from WCS Cambodia, recently released 20 of them into the Sre Ambel river system, helping restore the species in a critical refuge. 🌏

LISTEN: Each year, our WCS Career Lattice supports 1,900+ youth in volunteer, internship, and job opportunities across our five parks. Thanks to our supporters in this effort including the New York City Council and Mayor @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social. 🔊 Hear some of their journeys: apple.co/4uy53cI

“In the global tropics,” says WCS’s @lukedavid301.bsky.social, “artisanal take can be as high or higher than that from industrial fisheries, and can be the key driver of declines [in sharks and rays] that are leading us rapidly to extinctions.” 🌍 news.mongabay.com/2026/05/in-s...

Research by @wcs.org's Tim McClanahan shows that economic pressures & market incentives are keeping fishing effort high enough to suppress fish production recovery, which traps remaining fishers in poverty. Read the articles www.nature.com/articles/s43... & www.frontiersin.org/journals/fis...

In Mongolia, hundreds of khulan have been documented east of the Trans-Mongolian Railway. This shows the success of targeted efforts to restore wildlife connectivity and demonstrates a way to aid population recovery for wide-ranging species. 🌏 Read more: newsroom.wcs.org/News-Release...

An integrated method for land-use planning could benefit greatly benefit the planet, a new study co-authored by WCS shows. The experts offer a framework for balancing conservation, agriculture, and renewable energy. 🌍 Read more: doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Canada should support a proposed UN agreement to strengthen international cooperation on environmental crime, argues an op-ed co-authored by @wcscanada.org's Justina Ray. A deal could close enforcement gaps, “if Canada steps up.“ 🌎 🇨🇦 policyoptions.irpp.org/2026/04/cana...

Storytelling through film has the power to move people to act for the environment. Thank you to Christian Cooper for helping us celebrate powerful wildlife films this past weekend at REEL WILD™ New York Film Festival.

Great news: The U.S. House has shelved a proposed bill that would have weakened protections from the Endangered Species Act. This is a huge victory for wildlife conservation. Thank you to all of you who lent your voice to make it happen. 🌎

We have the scientific understanding to reduce pandemic spillover risk—by protecting ecosystems, regulating wildlife trade, and improving how livestock and people interact with nature. The challenge now is political will and sustained investment, says WCS’s @cwalzer.bsky.social. bit.ly/3OKdjqQ 🌎

Thrilled to team with Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom PROTECTING THE WILD to talk nature with families yesterday at REEL WILD™ New York Film Festival. Informal education is a big part of how we got inspired to be in this field, said Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant. 🌎

Film is a powerful tool for conservation. With REEL WILD New York Film Festival, we are proud to honor filmmakers telling significant stories that inspire people to act. www.reelwild.org

This weekend, at REEL WILD New York Film Festival, we are going behind the scenes, including with award-winning studio @tangledbankhhmi.bsky.social. More at reelwild.org.

“He did not build monuments to himself,” write author Miriam Horn and WCS’s Joe Walston of George Schaller, “but a science and practice for others to use to keep those mountain gorillas, giant pandas, and snow leopards all roaming their wild worlds.” 🌎 www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/...

“Honeybees can teach us so much about how to do for others,” said Sean Flynn tonight at REEL WILD New York Film Festival. The award-winning doc, ‘Keeper,’ tells Flynn’s story as a Bronx beekeeper.

A striking paradox from Kenya’s coastal fisheries: fish biomass is slowly recovering, but fishers are earning less than ever. From new WCS research in @natureportfolio.nature.com's Nature Food journal: doi.org/10.1038/s430... 🌍

New York is, quietly and powerfully, a capital of conservation, writes WCS’s John Calvelli in the @nydailynews.com. With the REEL WILD New York Film Festival, that role takes center stage. 🌎 www.nydailynews.com/2026/04/24/s...

Last night, at REEL WILD New York Film Festival, we saw the award-winning film Snow Leopard Sisters and heard from WCS’s Luke Hunter. 🎞️ 🌎 Check out tonight’s schedule: reelwild.org

LISTEN: George Schaller is widely regarded as one of the founders of modern field biology. His work helped transform how we study animals in the wild. On a new #WCSWildAudio, author Miriam Horn discusses her new biography of him. apple.co/4tuaLMD

Tonight, we kicked of the REEL WILD New York Film Festival led by WCS's John Calvelli and actress and director Naturi Naughton-Lewis. There is nothing more powerful than film to tell stories of wildlife and the people working to save it, said WCS President and CEO Adam Falk.

This #EarthDay, your support is going places. From the forests of the Congo Basin to the rivers of South Asia to our New York zoological parks, we are saving wildlife and wild places for the benefit of people and 🌎. bit.ly/4vQ06h0 #WCSImpact

Two new pieces of ocean science, co-authored by WCS, reveal more about what it takes to build truly equitable and sustainable ocean economies.

🧸 Families, join us at the REEL WILD New York Film Festival on Sunday for Family Day in partnership with Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom. t.co/Lc1PZgdKW8

In honor of #EarthDay this week, speak out for the Endangered Species Act. Help oppose U.S. legislation that would weaken protections, undermine science-based decisions, and make it harder to shield at-risk species from harm. 🌎 secure.wcs.org/campaign/260...

This week, we partnered in an effort to stock the Bronx River with more than 200 river herring. The goal is to restore a native migratory fish run in the city’s largest freshwater river. on.nyc.gov/4tRCmqC 🌎

The field biologist who helped redefine conservation. A new biography of WCS’s George Schaller “raises questions about how knowledge is made, what is worth protecting, and what it means to belong to a world shared with others,” writes @mongabay.com. 🌏 news.mongabay.com/2026/04/geor...

LISTEN: In the award-winning documentary short, Keeper, we meet Sean Flynn, a Bronx bee keeper doing his part to change the narrative about his borough. You can see the film at REEL WILD™ New York Film Festival. 🌎 🐝 Hear from him on #WCSWildAudio: apple.co/4sHOeL0

If you’re bitten by a venomous snake in the northeastern U.S., writes @wired.com, odds are good that you’ll be treated with vials of antivenom nestled in a refrigerator in the back room of the reptile house at WCS’s Bronx Zoo. 🌎 More on the impact of the pet trade: www.wired.com/snake-bros-a...

The wildlife trade is fueling disease outbreaks across the globe, writes @washingtonpost.com. New study on the trade “reinforces that governments need to control, regulate and, in many cases, stop this trade,” said WCS’s Susan Lieberman. 🌎 Read more: www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Migratory species summit adopts new marine protections, writes Mongabay. Success, says WCS’s Dana Tricarico, will depend on how quickly and effectively countries implement these new obligations at a national level. bit.ly/4tCO0pd

Thanks to @mayor.nyc.gov for saying hello to campers from the STEM Matters NYC enrichment program at WCS’s Prospect Park Zoo today. In this program, @nycschools.bsky.social students meet and work with field experts and gain career exploration learning experiences.

WCS’s @cwalzer.bsky.social spoke at the #OneHealthSummit on the environment as core health infrastructure. Protecting nature is a primary medical intervention, he said, reducing spillover risk, stabilizing disease dynamics, and delivering co-benefits for climate, biodiversity, and human well-being.

New research, based on vocalizations from sei whales recorded by acoustic monitors, reveals the New York Bight is a key spring habitat for Endangered sei whales. “Right about now,” WCS’s Dr. Howard Rosenbaum tells @nytimes.com. 🌎 www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/n...

Great news: WCS’s @jonathanslaght.com has been named a judge of the 2026 National Book Award for Nonfiction. www.nationalbook.org/people/jonat... Slaght is the author of multiple books. Most recently, he published Tigers Between Empires, which tells the story of Amur tiger conservation.

‼️ Nearly three out of four of the world’s marine protected areas are polluted by sewage, says a new study by @wcs.org and the University of Queensland. 🌍 newsroom.wcs.org/News-Release...

Endangered sei whales take spring break in the waters off New York and New Jersey, a new study led by the WCS New York Bight Program shows. Sei whales are the world’s 3rd largest whales. Also, one of the least studied large whales in the North Atlantic. 🌎 Read more: bit.ly/3O0CgOb

LISTEN: The documentary, A Life Illuminated, follows Dr. Edith Widder as she descends 3,300 feet into the deep, capturing footage of the elusive giant squid and uncovering bioluminescent phenomena. See it at this year’s REEL WILD New York Film Festival. 🔊🌎 apple.co/4m1Zxfv

The Women Ocean Guardian Initiative has rapidly grown into a global movement to place women at the forefront of marine protection and sustainable ocean economies. It gained momentum at recent UN event hosted by Germany. bit.ly/4bVAYvN

The Regional Action Plan for Migratory Amazonian Catfish adopted at #CMSCOP15 represents a shared vision among Amazonian countries. bit.ly/4bHHIig 🌎

Decisions adopted yesterday at #CMSCOP15 add significant new protections for some of the world’s most threatened shark species. A major step forward for ocean conservation. 🌎 bit.ly/40ZjEBh

Fish species such as the dourada, piramutaba, and other catfish are highly valued both for their size and for their food quality, WCS’s Dino Delgado tells @cnn.com. At #CMSCOP15, Amazon nations united to protect them. 🌎 edition.cnn.com/science/dora...