This summer, New York City restaurants and markets are again helping us speak out for the #HudsonCanyon. “The future of seafood starts with protecting the ocean it comes from,” says Greenpoint Fish owner Vinny Milburn. 🌎 Learn more: www.wcs.org/get-involved...

Shifting temperatures are reshaping coastal #Patagonia in ways scientists are only starting to understand. On WCS Wild Audio, a look at an ambitious effort to help the region adapt to an uncertain future. apple.co/3SWg7CM 🌎

NEW from the WCS Wild Audio podcast | S7 E11: Resilient Patagonia Shifting temperatures are reshaping coastal #Patagonia in ways scientists are only starting to understand. This week, we look at an ambitious effort to help the region adapt to an uncertain future. LISTEN: bit.ly/4w3rSWz #resilience

Today, we commemorate Juneteenth as a day of reflection, celebrating Black culture, and reaffirming our commitment to racial equity.

STATEMENT: Following #OurOceanConference we are committed to driving support directly to the front lines of ocean conservation. bit.ly/3SwddVa 🌍

NEWS: 9 African governments have announced new marine protections. Signals a shift from pledge to action across the continent. wcs.org/our-ocean-2026 #OurOcean 🌍

At #OurOcean, the Women Ocean Guardians coalition announced its expansion into Africa. 26 women from 11 African nations issued a declaration for dignity, justice, and healthy oceans. wcs.org/our-ocean-2026 🌍

Today at #OurOceanConference, Madagascar and Zanzibar announced new national shark and ray protections, building on a decade decade of East Africa shark conservation momentum implemented by @wcs.org & supported by Shark Conservation Fund. Read more: newsroom.wcs.org/News-Release...

For the first time, science has shown us where the coral reefs with the greatest potential to survive and recover from climate change are located. Now, 20 countries have committed to help protect them. 5 new ones today at #OurOcean. www.wcs.org/our-ocean-2026 🌏

Theres a bit of good news for coral reefs, writes the @nytimes.com. A study, led by WCS and presented at #OurOcean, identified 5,800+ square miles of climate-resilient ocean in 72 countries. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/16/c...

Coral reefs are not doomed. For years, the story has been inevitable loss. New science says some reefs have a chance to survive, with policy and investment, write WCS's @stacyjupiter.bsky.social and Melissa Wright of @bloombergdotorg.bsky.social. 🪸🌍 www.climatechangenews.com/2026/06/16/c...

We can’t treat recent the hantavirus and ebola outbreaks as unforeseeable shocks while systematically constructing the conditions that make them inevitable, writes WCS’s @cwalzer.bsky.social for @mongabay.com. Prevention is possible. 🌍 news.mongabay.com/2026/06/we-m...

Super Reefs can withstand climate impacts - they are out there, we need to find & protect them & learn their secrets. @emilysdarling.bsky.social of @wcs.org notes that protecting source reefs can maintain dispersal networks & help degraded reefs recover: insideclimatenews.org/news/1406202...

ICYMI WCS's Bronx Zoo recently announced the birth of this rare, Endangered Przewalski’s horse foal. Przewalski’s horses are the only truly wild horses left in the world. They were once considered extinct in the wild. We are proud to have played a pivotal role in their conservation. 🌏

Flesh-eating screwworm has reached the US—a comeback driven by organized crime, writes @cnn.com. We need governments to shut down illegal cattle ranching, says WCS’s Jeremy Radachowsky. 🌎 Read more: www.cnn.com/2026/06/11/a...

⚽️ One team. 🌎 One planet. 🏠 One home. Football unites us across borders, languages, and cultures. Conservation also connects us, through a shared commitment to protecting wildlife and wild places. #FIFAWorldCup #WCSImpact

STATEMENT: We now have confirmed infestations of the New World screwworm parasite in cattle, a goat, and a dog in the United States. We must stop illegal and unregulated cattle movement through Central America and Mexico. bit.ly/4vcREY4 🌎

The global trade in live wild animals continues to create conditions that can fuel the emergence and spread of zoonotic diseases and future pandemics. 🌏 More in a new white paper co-authored by WCS: newsroom.wcs.org/News-Release...

Oceans are critical, harboring up to 80% of Earth’s biodiversity. From the Bering Sea to the Coral Triangle, we’re working to reverse declines in key marine species, restore the health of important seascapes, and ensure lasting benefits for both nature and people. #WorldOceansDay

With tools like MERMAID for coral reef monitoring, we try to stay on the cutting edge, says WCS President and CEO Adam Falk, because technology helps accelerate our conservation impact. Not just because it's the latest thing. 🌎 Read the Q&A with Rare: bit.ly/4o99Krx

In Mongolia’s South Gobi, WCS scientists have safely collared two snow leopards to better understand how they navigate increasingly fragmented habitats. Protecting connectivity in this changing environment will be essential for their future. 🌏 newsroom.wcs.org/News-Release...

Look here for where to find @wcs.org at the forthcoming #OurOceanConference in Mombasa, with events highlighting commitments around climate-resilient reefs, Women Ocean Guardians, shark & ray conservation and #30x30 action

⚠️ There are fewer than 380 North Atlantic right whales left. @noaa.gov is weighing changes to proven vessel speed protections in favor of new technologies that are premature. Speak out to keep science-based protections in place: secure.wcs.org/campaign/260...

LISTEN: As AI transforms media, journalists and conservationists are confronting a new reality: What happens when we can no longer trust what we see in nature documentaries and wildlife photography? 🔊 🌎 @mongabay.com's Rhett Butler on a new #WCSWildAudio podcast episode: t.co/Ujr6nXpHGz

It's #BiodiversityDay. Biodiversity underpins healthy ecosystems. Each species performs a unique role. All are needed to keep the system strong and resilient. At WCS, we help conserve habitat for more than 40% of the world’s biodiversity by focusing on areas with high ecological integrity. 🌎

Did you know: cheetahs aren’t technically “big cats” and orange tiger fur looks green to deer. Hear WCS’s Luke Hunter talk big cats on a new episode of the podcast Terrestrials from @radiolab.bsky.social and @wnyc.org. 🔊 🌎 t.co/rp5SoAcyRv

There has been an alarming rise in wild meat consumption in Central Africa, driven by a surge in demand from fast-growing urban areas, a new WCS co-authored study shows. It threatens both wildlife and the food security of rural communities. 🌍 bit.ly/42IxgBS

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/...