In developing nations, more and more people are migrating to the coast, and sharks and rays are increasingly becoming an important source of food and income. This increased threat is unsustainable.

"In the face of the daunting news headlines and dark future projections," WCS's Lauren Oakes writes about climate change, "I still want to know what leads some people to innovate while others do nothing at all."

Today in the Amazon and Orinoco basins, there are at least 85 initiatives promoting the conservation of the charapa, South America's largest river turtle. These projects are protecting or managing a record 147,000 females.

I ate a burger last night and it surprised me. It was delicious and dripped juice through my hands, sending another T-shirt to the laundry. It was all I craved in a burger. So what was surprising? It was made from peas.

The need for the EU's newly elected parliamentarians to push the issue of biodiversity conservation up the political agenda and bring strong international leadership to these discussions is more urgent than ever.

Recently disturbed forests are not sites of wasted wood to be “salvaged.” They are as important to the natural ecology of our forests as the oldest stands of spruce, and they deserve to be protected and managed accordingly.

"The faster we deliver data to local communities and policy makers," writes WCS's Emily Darling, "the faster that evidence-based decisions can support coral reef conservation and management."

The Mozambique Channel and Western Indian Ocean comprise a hotspot of marine biodiversity where WCS has worked with the Mozambique government to identify priority conservation actions over the next 5 years.

The use of the ocean and its resources is expanding faster than at any time in the past. The Western Indian Ocean in particular is undergoing a significant economic transformation

WCS Canada is helping to develop strategies to reduce the impact of underwater noise generated by shipping in the Arctic so that the ocean remains relatively quiet and the marine species there continue to thrive.

Papua New Guinea poses a complex challenge for natural resource management: conserving biological and cultural diversity while ensuring communities develop and sustainably adapt to the modern world.

In advance of the upcoming CITES CoP, over 60 countries, including representatives from every continent, are championing the listings of a record 18 species of sharks and rays on the Convention’s appendices.

Reducing human pressure on nature does not mean an area must be free of people. Evidence shows that many of nature’s remaining strongholds have been sustained through the stewardship of local people.

If we can rally around the loss of a beautiful iconic cathedral that has been with us for centuries, surely we can do the same for turtles that have crawled across our planet since the late Triassic Period nearly 220 million years ago.

Cutting culture is penny-wise and pound foolish. The evidence is overwhelming that art and culture play a critical role in sustaining our citizens, our kids, our seniors, and our neighborhoods.

“We do a terrible job of valuing natural services and biodiversity retention because we don’t “pay” for these services,” says WCS Canada’s Justina Ray. “We will likely only really value them when they are gone.”

It is the actions of humans that have brought us to the crisis in which we now find ourselves. But it is likewise the actions of humans that can help us address the threats to the existence of all species before it’s too late.

This Earth Day, and every day, we must act deliberately and consciously to stop the steady decline of the blackpoll warbler and other boreal songbirds by protecting this globally important songbird nursery

New York City Nature Goals 2050 is united behind a common policy agenda, shared goals and targets and a desire to sustain the long-term health of New York City’s natural space and resources.

WCS's Sue Lieberman argues that the effort to stop poaching of saiga so that herds oft this unique animal may once again roam steppe grasslands of their native range exemplifies CITES’ enduring importance.

Many finance tools have been shown to be effective at raising capital, realigning incentives, and increasing efficiency of coral reef management but are not widely implemented due to limited knowledge and capacity.

An open mind and the right connections may sound so simple," notes WCS Conservation Measures and Communities Exec Director David Wilkie, "but they are undervalued ingredients in effective collaborations."

While vipers’ adaptations for survival have given rise to generations of people with an irrational fear of snakes, they bear no ill well to humans. They simply want to do what they've done for the last 60 million years: survive.

"There are thousands of women in STEM who can influence young people looking for validation of their interests and motivation to solve our world’s most complex problems," writes WCS's Karen Tingley.