Wildlife Conservation Society launches Instagram project for 17-year cicada emergence NEW YORK (June 6, 2013)—The Wildlife Conservation Society is launching an Instagram project, "Cicadas in My Hood," to document the current appearance of the periodical cicada in the eastern United States. In a natural phenomenon occurring in wooded areas from North Carolina to Connecticut, the periodical cicadas of “Brood II” are emerging en masse from their 17-year development underground. These cicadas a...

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...

At our annual gala, WCS honors Ward W. Woods, Chair of the Board of Trustees, for his commitment to conservation. Woods is dedicated to finding solutions to conservation challenges and educating the next generation of environmental leaders.

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...

Wildlife conservation groups show that new approaches to animal disease management could help secure regional incomes and a sustainable future for southern African wildlife NEW YORK (May 30, 2013) –A new study by the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Animal & Human Health for the Environment And Development (AHEAD) Program, World Wildlife Fund (WWF), and regional partners finds that a new approach to beef production in southern Africa could positively transform livelihoods for farmers and p...

WCS President and CEO Cristián Samper recognizes the outstanding leadership of Gabon president Ali Bongo Ondimba and Michel Djotodia, acting president of the CAR transitional government, in confronting the urgent wildlife emergency in Dzanga Bai and restoring security to the area.

Landmark book from the Wildlife Conservation Society offers a plan to a healthier, environmentally and economically-sound future NEW YORK (May 28, 2013) – A new book by Wildlife Conservation Society Senior Conservation Ecologist Dr. Eric W. Sanderson published by ABRAMS shows that the root of many of America’s biggest problems – economic recessions, foreign wars and foreclosures – is an economic model built around oil, cars and suburbs.In Terra Nova: The New World After Oil, Cars, and Suburbs...

New Large-scale Jaguar Camera-trap Study Underway in GuatemalaWildlife Conservation Society Issues New Manual for Catching Conservation in Action New York (May 28, 2013) – The Wildlife Conservation Society today released this photograph of a male jaguar taken by a remote camera trap in Guatemala’s Maya Biosphere Reserve. Activated by motion or heat differentials, camera traps “capture” pictures of secretive and elusive animals in the wild. Because each jaguar’s pattern of spots is unique,...