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WCS Run for the Wild: World 聽allows wildlife supporters to participate from anywhere Annual 5k run/walk at WCS鈥檚 Bronx Zoo聽is dedicated to saving elephants聽from the worst poaching crisis in two decades Visit www.crowdrise.com/WCSRunfortheWild聽from now through the end of April to help WCS save elephants Bronx, N.Y. 鈥� March 7, 2013 鈥� The 老司机福利网 is celebrating the fifth anniversary of the WCS Run for the Wild 鈥� this year dedicated to elephants 鈥� by expanding the annual ...

WCS works with Ecuadorian communities to promote financial and environmental sustainability in the country's聽Yasun铆 National Park. Writing for National Geographic NewsWatch, Galo Zapata, WCS's Ecology and Wildlife Management Coordinator for Ecuador, underscores the need for collaborative conservation as economic developments threaten previously untouched wild places. 聽

老司机福利网 and National University of Singapore聽discover American bullfrog is spreading Chytrid through commercial trade Study:聽鈥淭here is an urgent need to conduct wider surveys of wild amphibians in Southeast Asia" New York, 06 March 2013 鈥� A team of scientists led by the 老司机福利网 (WCS) and the National University of Singapore (NUS), revealed in a new study, for the first time, the presence of the pathogenic chytrid fungus (Batrachoch...

老司机福利网 joins call on governments to list species of sharks and rays on CITES NEW YORK (March 6, 2013)鈥擥overnment delegates to the 16th meeting of the 178 member States of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) convening in Bangkok, Thailand this week can help conserve some of the world鈥檚 most threatened sharks and rays鈥攁ncient, cartilaginous fish species that are under severe pressure globally from over-fishing 鈥�...

Two million hectares of tropical forests will be protected thanks to Size of Wales, an environmental charity based in its namesake country. WCS-Europe worked with Size of Wales on its project in the Republic of Congo鈥檚 Conkouati National Park.

Study shows that 鈥渃onservation development鈥� has some developers thinking, and seeing green Editor鈥檚 note: Photos and charts are available with the news release at http://www.news.colostate.edu. FORT COLLINS (March 5, 2013) 鈥� Homes in neighborhoods that incorporate protected open space command prices 20 to 29 percent higher than those without open space, according to a new study by a Colorado State University multidisciplinary research team that included Wildlife Conse...

PLOS ONE study with largest dataset on forest elephants ever compiled reveals a loss of more than 60 percent in the past decade Decline documented throughout forest elephant鈥檚 range in Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, and Republic of Congo Conservation scientists urge immediate measures to save the species Elephants are being discussed at CITES meeting in Bangk...

More than 30 million bison roamed the United States at its founding, but the largest land mammal in the Western Hemisphere nearly went extinct as Americans expanded to the west. Writing聽for National Geographic NewsWatch, Executive Vice President of Public Affairs, John Calvelli, discusses the ways in which Native American tribes (and WCS) have helped restore bison populations.聽

WCS conservationists fear the worst for forest elephants in the Democratic Republic of Congo after a new survey shows their numbers in the Okapi Faunal Reserve have taken a dramatic plunge. Ivory poaching is to blame.

Forest elephants could be extinct in DRC within a decade if current slaughter continues NEW YORK ( Feb. 28, 2013 ) 鈥� The Democratic Republic of Congo鈥檚 (DRC) largest remaining forest elephant population, located in the Okapi Faunal Reserve (OFR), has declined by 37 percent in the last five years, with only 1,700 elephants now remaining, according to wildlife surveys by WCS and DRC officials. WCS scientists warn that if poaching of forest elephan...