Wildlife Conservation Society

LISTEN: As AI transforms media, journalists and conservationists are confronting a new reality: What happens when we can no longer trust what we see in nature documentaries and wildlife photography? 🔊 🌎 @mongabay.com's Rhett Butler on a new #WCSWildAudio podcast episode: t.co/Ujr6nXpHGz

🎂 Happy 100th birthday to Sir David Attenborough! Today, we are working in the places and on the species you inspired us to save. From Joe Walston and all of us at WCS.

Once feared extinct in Cambodia, the Critically Endangered royal turtle is making a comeback. Cambodia’s General Department of Fisheries, with support from WCS Cambodia, recently released 20 of them into the Sre Ambel river system, helping restore the species in a critical refuge. 🌏

LISTEN: Each year, our WCS Career Lattice supports 1,900+ youth in volunteer, internship, and job opportunities across our five parks. Thanks to our supporters in this effort including the New York City Council and Mayor @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social. 🔊 Hear some of their journeys: apple.co/4uy53cI

In Mongolia, hundreds of khulan have been documented east of the Trans-Mongolian Railway. This shows the success of targeted efforts to restore wildlife connectivity and demonstrates a way to aid population recovery for wide-ranging species. 🌏 Read more: newsroom.wcs.org/News-Release...

Storytelling through film has the power to move people to act for the environment. Thank you to Christian Cooper for helping us celebrate powerful wildlife films this past weekend at REEL WILD™ New York Film Festival.

Thrilled to team with Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom PROTECTING THE WILD to talk nature with families yesterday at REEL WILD™ New York Film Festival. Informal education is a big part of how we got inspired to be in this field, said Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant. 🌎

Film is a powerful tool for conservation. With REEL WILD New York Film Festival, we are proud to honor filmmakers telling significant stories that inspire people to act. www.reelwild.org

This weekend, at REEL WILD New York Film Festival, we are going behind the scenes, including with award-winning studio @tangledbankhhmi.bsky.social. More at reelwild.org.

Last night, at REEL WILD New York Film Festival, we saw the award-winning film Snow Leopard Sisters and heard from WCS’s Luke Hunter. 🎞️ 🌎 Check out tonight’s schedule: reelwild.org

LISTEN: George Schaller is widely regarded as one of the founders of modern field biology. His work helped transform how we study animals in the wild. On a new #WCSWildAudio, author Miriam Horn discusses her new biography of him. apple.co/4tuaLMD

LISTEN: In the award-winning documentary short, Keeper, we meet Sean Flynn, a Bronx bee keeper doing his part to change the narrative about his borough. You can see the film at REEL WILD™ New York Film Festival. 🌎 🐝 Hear from him on #WCSWildAudio: apple.co/4sHOeL0

LISTEN: The documentary, A Life Illuminated, follows Dr. Edith Widder as she descends 3,300 feet into the deep, capturing footage of the elusive giant squid and uncovering bioluminescent phenomena. See it at this year’s REEL WILD New York Film Festival. 🔊🌎 apple.co/4m1Zxfv

NEWS: Global protections secured for striped hyena and giant otter at #CMSCOP15. For both, said WCS’s Susan Lieberman, “conservation success will depend on countries working together across entire ecosystems.” 🌏 t.co/mmWHLz1Pgh

At #CMSCOP15, WCS Mongolia’s Buuveibaatar Bayarbaatar is hopeful that through the Central Asian Mammals Initiative under discussion Mongolia’s migratory ungulates will thrive.

Great news from #CMSCOP15: Proposals to include striped hyenas and giant otters on Appendix I and II to increase protections have been agreed to by consensus. We expect them to be adopted at the end of the COP. www.wcs.org/cms

The narrownose smooth-hound shark and the angular angelshark. At #CMSCOP15, we are supporting proposals by the government of Brazil to coordinate their conservation, says Juan Martín Cuevas of WCS Argentina. Follow along: www.wcs.org/cms-cop15

At #CMSCOP15, we are supporting cooperation around conserving the Amazon’s migratory turtles, says Camila Ferrara of WCS Brazil. CMS is built around the idea that it’s not enough to protect animals in one country if they are vulnerable in another. 🌎 Follow along: wcs.org/cms-cop15

The striped hyena is in decline. There are fewer than 10,000 left. “Yet it remains largely overlooked in global policy frameworks,” says WCS’s Sue Lieberman. 🌎 At #CMSCOP15, we are supporting a proposal for protections. bit.ly/4uPPUEC

🌱 Signs of Spring: Some of the first scarlet macaw chicks have hatched in our field laboratory in Guatemala’s Laguna del Tigre National Park. Part of an ongoing effort to strengthen the population in the Mayan forest. 🌎

Lights. Camera. Take Action. 🎬 🌎 Tickets for our 2026 REEL WILD™ New York Film Festival are on sale. Juried screenings begin Thursday, April 23, at the AMC Lincoln Square 13 and run to Sunday, April 26, including a special presentation of Disneynature’s Orangutan. Learn more: www.reelwild.org

LISTEN: On the latest #WCSWildAudio, hear from Convention on Migratory Species Executive Secretary Amy Fraenkel about the state of the world’s migratory species and what’s at stake at the upcoming #CMSCOP15. t.co/9zKwBb0Mjv 🌎

LISTEN: Illegal and small-scale gold mining in the Amazon relies on mercury. That mercury seeps into the environment and poisons ecosystems and communities. 🔊 🌎 On #WCSWildAudio, how conservationists and Indigenous leaders are fighting back: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

Through this work, we've learned the area is: —An important year-round habitat for fin whales (video) —North Atlantic right whales can sometimes be heard year-round 3/

While coral reefs face severe threats, overly bleak narratives can undermine action. A group of marine scientists, including from @wcs.org, have published their 100-year visions of sustainable and equitable futures. 🪸 🌏 doi.org/10.1038/s441...

Thanks to the more than 500 young people that turned out today for our 10th annual JIVE career expo at the Bronx Zoo to learn about employment, internship, and volunteer opportunities across WCS’s four New York City zoos and the New York Aquarium. 🌎

LISTEN: This #WorldWetlandsDay, there’s an urgent need to protect Canada’s large, intact peatlands, like the Hudson Bay Lowlands. On a new #WCSWildAudio, @wcscanada.org’s national peatland strategy. 🔊 🌎 apple.co/3Ml9dUP

LISTEN: Coral reefs face unprecedented pressures. But scientists are finding some are more resilient than others. On a new #WCSWildAudio with WCS’s Dr. Emily Darling, a strategy to shape the future of coral conservation worldwide. 🌎 apple.co/45Gk8yR

WCS's Bronx Zoo has a new baby. In December 2025, an Endangered pygmy slow loris was born in our newest exhibit, World of Darkness. This is the first primate to be born at the zoo’s immersive exhibit since it opened in July 2025. bit.ly/4r7dUQU 🌎

In Laos, community-led conservation is bringing one of the world’s rarest crocodiles back from the edge of extinction. ▶️ 🌏 New WCS-led report shows how: bit.ly/4pMeMt3

As mating season nears, snow leopards increase scent-marking across their home ranges. This helps scientists, like those with our WCS Mongolia team, monitor populations across Mongolia’s mountains. 🌏

Save the ❤️ of the wild. Give your year-end, tax-deductible gift before 2025 ends! It will be matched 3X. secure.wcs.org/donate/givin... 🌎

🔔 🌎 Happy holidays from our WCS teams in New York City and around the world!

Check out these Andean bears at the Queens Zoo. “As young bears, Coya and Ransisku are curious about everything in their environment,” said WCS’s Mike Allen, the zoo’s director. Video taken by a guest. 🌎