wildlife conservation society Archives

Not good: Study documents catastrophic collapse of Sahara’s wildlife

Forgotten ape threatened by human activity, forest loss

Wildlife face ‘Armageddon’ as forests shrink

Whale mass stranding attributed to sonar mapping for first time

Protecting world’s poor from climate change

Wildlife treasure trove found in Peru

Kenya’s fisheries management promotes species that grow larger and live longer

Marine conservationists from the Wildlife Conservation Society working in Kenya have found that better fisheries management that includes restricting fishing gear is producing more predatory and longer-lived species and is improving fishing even…

Study finds fisheries management makes coral reefs grow faster

An 18-year study of Kenya’s coral reefs by the Wildlife Conservation Society and the University of California at Santa Cruz has found that overfished reef systems have more sea urchins — organisms that in turn eat coral algae that build tropi…

Last strongholds for tigers identified in new study

NEW YORK (Embargoed until September 14, 2010: 5:00 p.m. U.S. Eastern Time) — A new peer-reviewed paper by the Wildlife Conservation Society and other groups reveals an ominous finding: most of the world’s last remaining tigers — long decimate…

Largest ever white-shouldered ibis count

A record-breaking 429 White-shouldered Ibis Pseudibis davisoni have just been recorded in Cambodia, making the known global population much larger than previously thought. With so many birds remaining in the wild the chances of conservation success …