WCS Chair of the Board of Trustees Ward W. Woods Honored for His Commitment to Conservation: Dedicated to Finding Solutions to Conservation Challenges and Educating the Next Generation of Environmental Leaders First annual gala for WCS President and CEO Cristián Samper New York, N.Y. – EMBARGOED UNTIL 6:00 PM US EASTERN TIME, THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 2013 – The Wildlife Conservation Society, at its annual gala tonight, honored Ward W. Woods, Chair of the WCS Board of Trustees, for his dedicatio...

Today at 11 AM US Eastern Time, @TheWCS and @WCSTanzania will release an extremely rare pic of a baby kipunji Rungwecebus kipunji on Twitter. This is Africa's rarest monkey, first discovered by WCS in 2003 and described as a new genus in 2006. The monkey lives in a protected forest on Mt. Rungwe that WCS helped create two years after the species was first discovered. The baby is part of a habituated group WCS has been following for the past four years. Its mother lost its hand and lower arm ...

Please see the link to the study: “Human deforestation outweighs future climate change impacts of sedimentation on coral reefs” published today in the journal Nature Communications:  http://dx.doi.org/ . To download the paper, use DOI code 10.1038/ncomms2986.The work suggests that regional land-use management is more important than mediating climate change for reducing coral reef sedimentation on Madagascar.Forest cover upriver is known to affects the sediments that are washed down to the ...

Facing serious threats from habitat loss and illegal trade, Kaiser’s spotted newt may be extinct in the wildRare Anderson’s crocodile newt also makes debut Brooklyn, N.Y. – June 3, 2013 – The Wildlife Conservation Society’s Prospect Park Zoo is now home to five Kaiser’s spotted newts (Neurergus kaiseri) a colorful amphibian found only in a five-square-mile region in Iran. The critically endangered species may be extinct in the wild.Habitat loss includin...