(Above: WCS’s Dr. John Robinson, a member of the 10-Year Strategic Vision Steering Committee, helped present the vision to the Member’s Assembly today. Photo: WCS) Abu Dhabi, UAE, 13 October 2025—The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) welcomes the adoption today of IUCN’s 20-Year Strategic Vision, Unite for Nature: On the Path to 2045. This landmark framework reflects a shared global commitment to conserve nature, strengthen resilience, and ensure that biodi...

Abu Dhabi, Oct. 13, 2025 –  The IUCN World Conservation Congress has adopted Motion 108, calling for the creation of urgently needed global guidelines to help countries manage the commercial trade in wild animals kept as pets. Around the world, millions of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, and invertebrates are taken from the wild every year to feed the pet trade—leaving forests and grasslands silent and stripped of vital pollinators, seed dispersers, and predators. ...

Abu Dhabi, UAE, 10 October 2025—Today, the SMART Partnership and EarthRanger, a product of Ai2, announced the launch of the SMART–EarthRanger Conservation Alliance (SERCA), a first-of-its-kind global collaboration to transform how the world’s protected and conserved areas are managed. With effectiveness a critical challenge for conservation worldwide, SERCA unites the world’s most widely used conservation management software, proven fiel...

Bronx, NY, October 10, 2025—The first IUCN Green Status of Species assessment for the tiger (Panthera tigris) finds that the world’s largest cat is Critically Depleted after a century of population decline, but also shows that conservation has prevented even greater losses and provides hope for recovery of tigers across their range. Led by scientists from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) in collaboration with WWF, Panthera, and other partners under the auspices of the ...

One Health Motion HERE Abu Dhabi, Oct. 10, 2025 --  The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) released the following comments on two of the 97 motions adopted during the first day of the IUCN World Conservation Congress taking place here from Oct. 9-15. This One Health motion, developed and championed by WCS and partners, was adopted. WCS Comment: “WCS’s health and field teams have seen firsthand how human well-being depends on the integrity of nature,” said Sarah O...

Abu Dhabi, UAE, October 8, 2025—The IUCN World Conservation Congress is poised to adopt a new motion on One Health -- developed and championed by WCS and its partners—to fully integrate One Health into conservation policies and programs, recognizing the interdependence of wildlife, ecosystem, animal, and human health. The motion reflects a growing global consensus that the health of people and the planet are inextricably linked. It urges stronger collabora...

Abu Dhabi, UAE, October 8, 2025—The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) will soon adopt a motion aimed at curtailing crimes impacting the environment at the IUCN World Conservation Congress, which opens on October 9 and runs through October 15. The motion—co-led by WCS and supported by a wide coalition of IUCN Members—commits the global conservation community to coordinated action against wildlife trafficking; illegal logging and mining; illegal f...

WASHINGTON D.C, USA, 4 October 2025 – Bonds for Ocean Conservation, pioneered by the Debt for Nature Coalition – a group of six global environmental organisations – is today revealed as a 2025 Finalist in the world’s most prestigious and impactful environmental award, The Earthshot Prize. Coalition members include Conservation International, The Nature Conservancy, The Pew Charitable Trusts, Re:wild, Wildlife Conservation Society, and World Wildlife Fund in the ...

Abu Dhabi, Oct. 3, 2025 -- The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) today urged delegates to the upcoming IUCN World Conservation Congress in Abu Dhabi to support Motion 87, which establishes a responsible, science-based policy framework on synthetic biology, and to reject Motion 133, which calls for a sweeping moratorium on use of such technologies. Synthetic biology — a broad range of applications that enable targeted changes to the genetic makeup of organisms — is...

Pictured here is a New England cottontail rabbit bred at the Queens Zoo in New York City and released into the Fort Foster Park in Kittery, Maine, on August 22, 2025. The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (MDIFW), USFWS staff and interns, a Maine Conservation Corps Steward and the park staff teamed up to release cottontail kits from the Queens Zoo as part of a restoration effort for these rabbits classified as Vulnerable by IUCN (The International Union for the Conserva...