The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) announced today that the markhor – a majestic wild goat species – is making a remarkable comeback in Pakistan due to conservation efforts.

Biology - Ecology

Jul 03, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

A Central African protected area that straddles three countries and teems with gorillas, elephants, and chimpanzees has been named a World Heritage Site by the United Nations Education, Science, and Cultural ...

Biology - Ecology

Jul 02, 2012 not rated yet 0

In face of what has become a precipitous slide toward extinction across the Asian continent, the vultures of Cambodia have persisted, giving conservationists hope that these important scavengers can come back ...

Biology - Ecology

Jun 25, 2012 not rated yet 1

Using the latest satellite tracking technology, conservationists from the Wildlife Conservation Society, the University of Exeter (UK), and the Government of Mexico have completed a ground-breaking study on ...

Biology - Ecology

May 11, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 0 |

Conservationists working in Cameroon's Kagwene Gorilla Sanctuary have collected the first camera trap video footage of the Cross River gorilla. With fewer than 250 individuals remaining, Cross River gorillas are the world's ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

May 08, 2012 4.5 / 5 (2) 0

A study by the Wildlife Conservation Society documents that intense development of the two largest natural gas fields in the continental U.S. are driving away some wildlife from their traditional wintering ...

Biology - Ecology

May 02, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 2

Conservationists with the Wildlife Conservation Society and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology have found that larger male gorillas living in the rainforests of Congo seem to be more successful ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

May 01, 2012 not rated yet 0 |

The first-known camera trap photos of an Amur leopard in China have recently been taken by protected area staff in Hunchun Amur Tiger National Nature Reserve in Jilin Province according to the Wildlife Conservation ...

Biology - Ecology

Apr 25, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

The Wildlife Conservation Society commends the Russian government for creating a new national park to protect critically endangered Amur (Siberian) tigers and the world's rarest big cat: the Far Eastern leopard.

Biology - Ecology

Apr 13, 2012 not rated yet 0

The Wildlife Conservation Society announced today a new strategy that draws on all of the resources and expertise across the institution – from its Zoos and Aquarium, Global Health Program, and Global ...

Biology - Ecology

Apr 11, 2012 not rated yet 0

A study by the Wildlife Conservation Society, the ARC Centre for Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, and other groups on more than 40 coral reefs in the Indian and Pacific Oceans indicates that "co-management"—a ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Mar 19, 2012 4.8 / 5 (4) 1 |

A rapid increase in shipping in the formerly ice-choked waterways of the Arctic poses a significant increase in risk to the region's marine mammals and the local communities that rely on them for food security ...

Biology - Ecology

Mar 16, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

A new study by the University of California, Berkeley, Wildlife Conservation Society, and others uses a new scientific methodology for establishing marine protected areas in Madagascar that offers a "diversified ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Feb 24, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme (SOCP) announced today Sumatra's first ever successful sentence of an illegal orangutan owner and trader in Medan, ...

Biology - Ecology

Feb 23, 2012 not rated yet 0

The Republic of Congo has formally expanded Nouabale-Ndoki National Park to protect an increasingly rare treasure: one of Africa's most pristine forests and a population of "naïve" chimpanzees with so little exposure ...

Biology - Ecology

Feb 16, 2012 4.7 / 5 (3) 0