Speak out with us to protect a unique and vulnerable ocean ecosystem off the coast of New York and New Jersey by having it designated as a National Marine Sanctuary.

Our team was on the ground at the 11th Our Ocean Conference, which aimed to unite governments, communities, innovators, and businesses with a focus on jobs, equity, and healthy oceans.

Wildlife is worth fighting for. Our community is growing strong and it will take all of us to protect the species and places we love.

Over the course of the year, these developments, favorites of our WCS Communications Team, inspired wonder, advanced science, and demonstrated tangible progress for wildlife and wild places around the ...

Coastal communities and ecosystems are intricately and inextricably entwined. People depend on coastal ecosystems for nutrition, livelihoods, refuge, protection, and climate resilience, and in the ...

A lone man waits in his cabin on the desolate expanse of the Russian Arctic to observe a natural event that happens there every year, but ocean warming is taking its toll. Followed by filmmaker Q&A.

WCS values diversity and prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, national origin, color, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status and other protected classifications. The WCS ...

The destruction of nature is fueling the biodiversity, climate, and health crises, threatening life on Earth. Nature is an essential solution. CBD CoP16 in Colombia was part of the first UN ...

Dr. Rachel Neugarten is Executive Director of Conservation Planning for the Wildlife Conservation Society. She has more than two decades of experience in conducting scientific research to inform ...

Help people protect the wildlife and natural systems meaningful to them, while ensuring that local families do not unjustly shoulder the costs of establishing and sustainably managing protected areas.

You may have heard about the large scale of the current extinction crisis. It’s unprecedented and dangerous according to experts. For Endangered Species Day on May 19, WCS’s Elizabeth Bennett explores ...

Minimize threats to wildlife in the best wild places on Earth so that their populations are stable or increasing, ensure that hunting and fishing is sustainable, and that conflicts between people and ...