405 days ago From Daily Green   View Archived Article

PORT EWEN, NEW YORK - The Wildlife Conservation Society and partners signed an agreement this spring that will safeguard some 80000 acres of intact forest in Guatemala in the heart of the sprawling Maya Biosphere Reserve that serves as a gateway to the renowned ...

411 days ago From Our Amazing Planet   View Archived Article

OGDEN, UTAH - A new trail has opened within a rugged area of the Chilean island of Tierra del Fuego, connecting uplands to coastal areas, the Wildlife Conservation Society announced today (April 5). The trail, which will be completed in December, runs 21.3 miles ( ...

420 days ago From EurekAlert   View Archived Article

WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA - NEW YORK -- The Wildlife Conservation Society and partners signed an agreement this month that will safeguard some 80000 acres of intact forest in Guatemala in the heart of the sprawling Maya Biosphere Reserve. Signed on March 9th, the agreement will ...

427 days ago From Voice of America   View Archived Article

WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA - The Fish and Wildlife Service and the Wildlife Conservation Society have developed a 5-year plan to ensure the survival of the primate. De Capua report on the Cross River gorilla download iconDownload: MP3 Right click (Control click for Mac) and choo ...

427 days ago From Newswise   View Archived Article

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA - Since 2003, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) has worked to support this process in Seima. The dual aims are to strengthen community rights to manage their natural resources and enhance the conservation of endangered biodiversity. ...

431 days ago From EurekAlert   View Archived Article

WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA - ... increase in risk to the region's marine mammals and the local communities that rely on them for food security and cultural identity, according to an Alaska Native groups and the Wildlife Conservation Society who convened at a recent workshop. ...

442 days ago From Washington Post   View Archived Article

WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA - He'll be leaving Washington in August to head the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society, which runs several zoos and the New York Aquarium. He took some time to talk to The Post's Juliet Eilperin and to share with KidsPost readers the ...

447 days ago From CNN   View Archived Article

LONDON, U K - James Deutsch, director of the World Conservation Society (WCS) Africa program said: "Bringing the Goualougo Triangle into the borders of Nauabale-Ndoki will help conserve this landscape's unspoiled richness and provide a safe harbor for the ...

460 days ago From EurekAlert   View Archived Article

WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA - "Bringing the Goualougo Triangle into the borders of Nouabal=E9-Ndoki will help conserve this landscape's unspoiled richness and provide a safe harbor for these unique apes," said Dr. James Deutsch, Director of the Wildlife Conservation ...

476 days ago From EurekAlert   View Archived Article

WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA - The authors include: Richard A. Bergl of the North Carolina Zoo; Ymke Warren (deceased), Aaron Nicholas, Andrew Dunn, Inaoyom Imong, and Jacqueline L. Sunderland-Groves of the Wildlife Conservation Society; and John F. Oates of Hunter College, CUNY. ...

478 days ago From International Business Times AU   View Archived Article

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - The Wildlife Conservation Society is working with fishermen in these areas to reduce the need to catch wild marine mammals, and instead hunt sustainable fish. According to researchers, there is strict regulation and monitoring when fishing of larger ...

481 days ago From Mongabay.com   View Archived Article

ELDRED, PENNSYLVANIA - Researchers with The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and Colombia's National Parks Unit have located at least two individuals of brown-spider monkey (Ateles hybridus) in Colombia's Selva de Florencia National Park. The discovery is import ...

489 days ago From PhysOrg.com   View Archived Article

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - Credit: Eleanor Briggs The Wildlife Conservation Society, in conjunction with the Cambodian Fisheries Administration and Wildlife Reserves Singapore, announced today the successful release of a Southern River terrapin (Batagur affinis) =96 one of the ...

498 days ago From EurekAlert   View Archived Article

WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA - NEW YORK (DATE) -- The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) announced the discovery of a spectacularly colored snake from a remote area of Tanzania in East Africa. The striking black-and-yellow snake is called Matilda's horned viper. ...

517 days ago From msnbc.com   View Archived Article

WICHITA, KANSAS - The adult jaguar, nicknamed Kaaiyana, has been seen with her cubs in the area for over a month and has lived near the park for at least six years, according to conservationists with the Wildlife Conservation Society, which releases camera-trap photos ...

517 days ago From EurekAlert   View Archived Article

WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA - A 14-year study by the Wildlife Conservation Society in an atoll reef lagoon in Glover's Reef, Belize has found that fishing closures there produce encouraging increases in populations of predatory fish species. However, such closures have result ...

523 days ago From Mongabay.com   View Archived Article

ELDRED, PENNSYLVANIA - Snakes are particularly popular and a new snake arouses considerable interest," Tim Davenport with the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) explained to mongabay.com. "Our concern is that a sudden rush to collect this new snake from such a s ...

531 days ago From International Business Times   View Archived Article

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - Using camera trap surveys to collect data on the wildlife of Afghanistan's Central Highlands, scientists from the Wildlife Conservation Society have made a surprise discovery: a Persian leopard, thought to have been extirpated from the region. .. ...

534 days ago From China Daily   View Archived Article

BEIJING, CHINA - HARBIN - Ninety Chinese volunteers from across the country will be chosen to clear traps set for endangered wild Siberian tigers in northeast China again this winter. The trap-clearing campaign will be jointly sponsored by the New York-based non-prof ...

552 days ago From UPI.com   View Archived Article

WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA - The newly fledged birds total 29 macaws, a success for the Wildlife Conservation Society's Guatemala Program, WCS's Bronx Zoo, the National Park Service of Guatemala and other groups working for the survival of the species, a WCS release said ...