Three Chinese big-headed turtles (Platysternon megacephalum) have hatched at WCS’s Prospect Park Zoo.

The Government of Madagascar has created the country’s first marine sanctuary for sharks as part of a new law to safeguard the country’s marine resources and the communities that rely on them.

WCS and the 96 Elephants campaign praise San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors for unanimously passing a resolution in support of A96, state legislation that would ban the sale of ivory and rhinoceros horn in the state of California.

New York – Feb. 2, 2015 – WCS’s (Wildlife Conservation Society) Queens Zoo has become a winter wonderland having received several inches of snow in the past week. These five photos highlight a few animals enjoying the week’s weather.   All photo credits: Julie Larsen Maher © WCS Included photos: #8916: Bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus): The bald eagle is the national bird of the United States. Once on the brink of extinction, the species has made a tr...

Some encouraging research from Belize’s Glovers Reef, where fishing regulations for spiny lobsters seem to be protecting these valuable crustaceans. 

New research on the Saharan cheetah has established it as one of the world's rarest big cats.

A recent study by Drexel University, WCS, and other groups shows that the world’s least known chimp  may become threatened due to climate change.

Great news from the Russian Far East: an orphaned tiger cub named Zolushka (Russian for Cinderella) has been successfully rehabilitated and released back into the forests of the Russian Far East. 

WCS is working to save the “real” Paddington Bear, the Andean bear.  Check out some rare glimpses via video camera traps along with new scientific findings. News release, recent study, and links below.  

The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the Governments of Tanzania and the United States, including USAID, announced the launch of a new joint program to save East Africa’s largest elephant population in the Ruaha-Katavi Landscape.