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OPPORTUNITY because of their strong programs aimed at improving the welfare standards of farmed animals and strengthening the animal advocacy movement across multiple countries.
We are especially honored to have the extraordinary support of our Partner, Advocate, Defender, Disruptor, and Champion members.
WE ARE SO GRATEFUL TO OUR LEGACY SOCIETY MEMBERS, who have generously chosen to leave an enduring legacy of compassion that will empower us to keep fighting for animals for as long as we are needed.
on factory farmed animals, I knew I wanted to do something to prevent it.
THL’s thoughtful and pragmatic approach really resonated with me.
real policy change at the corporations that profit from factory farming cruelty, and that policy change truly delivers for the animals.
With billions of animals enduring harrowing cruelties on industrial factory farms, THL’s laser focus on effectiveness and impact is crucial and invaluable.
I trust the organization’s evidence based and result-oriented approaches are the best avenues to transform animal welfare.
to recognize everyone who contributed to our mission.
You fuel our work with your donations, your time, your ideas, and your voices.
You partner with us year after year to continue pressuring an archaic and greedy industry to change its ways.
Everything you do makes a difference, and every one of us at THL is deeply grateful for your partnership.
We Stand for Wildlife® http://www.wcs.org MISSION WCS saves wildlife and wild places worldwide through science, conservation action, education, and inspiring people to value nature.
VISION WCS envisions a world where wildlife thrives in healthy lands and seas, valued by societies that embrace and benefit from the diversity and integrity of life on Earth.
guide our conservation action, and inform policy decisions to scale up our impact.
PROTECT We will protect and rewild priority species and wild places, and reduce the threats causing the loss of wildlife and wild places.
INSPIRE We will inspire and engage people to care about wildlife and wild places by leveraging the power of our zoos and aquarium, and expanding digital platforms to reach a global audience.
Mending our broken relationship with nature is the defining challenge of our lifetime.
The collapse of biodiversity, the climate crisis, and the pandemic have made that abundantly clear.
These calamities result from the extreme and unsustainable pressure we are putting on our planet’s natural resources—endangering all living things, including ourselves.
We must find a new path that balances human needs with protecting and restoring nature—a path that actually harnesses nature’s immense power.
This is a moment when Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) can make a vital contribution.
We have been at the vanguard of conservation since mission to save the earth’s wildlife and wild places through a unique mix of zoo- and field-based work.
WCS’s early Bronx Zoo-based efforts helped save an American icon—the buffalo—from extinction.
Since then, we have saved many more species and helped create, manage, expand, and strengthen hundreds of protected wilderness areas around the world, working hand in hand with Indigenous and local partners and national and local governments in 60 countries.
We have also connected more than and aquarium in New York City.
And every year, we help train the next generation of scientists, educators, and conservationists; last year we published more than articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals.
The results that we achieve every day—highlights of which we share in this impact report—give us hope for the future.
But we could not do any of it without generous support from you and other donors, which we were profoundly grateful for during the challenging pandemic year.
wildlife parks ■ Reimagine zoo-based learning during the pandemic ■ Devise promising new conservation strategies for lions, jaguars, elephants, whales, and sharks ■ Advance efforts to ban the commercial trade in wildlife for human consumption ■ Unlock the power of intact forests ■ Protect Nature’s Strongholds around the globe We also hope that the passion and dedication of our very diverse staff and partners around the world shine through when you read their profiles, which this year include a New York Aquarium marine mammal and bird keeper, an Indigenous ecotourism guide in Bolivia, a Robertson Big Cat Conservation Fellow from China, a Thai anti-poaching leader, and a Bronx Zoo admissions manager.
They are the heart and soul of everything that WCS does.
power of intact forests We face three interconnected crises: extinction; climate change is accelerating; and the pandemic, which is linked to the dangerous commercial trade in wildlife for human consumption, has claimed millions of lives.
But we have hope for the future because of your strong support for our mission—and because of all we have accomplished with that support.
SAVING WILDLIFE Today, an unprecedented world are at risk of vanishing forever.
This is not a loss we can afford.
From the smallest birds, bats, and insects that pollinate crops to the largest predators—including the big cats and sharks that keep food chains strong and balanced—biodiversity plays a vital role in the web of life that sustains us.
And it is not too late to reverse course.
Saving wildlife has always been WCS’s core mission, beginning with rewilding the buffalo, or bison, in the American West at the turn of the 20th century.
WCS’s ambitious is not only to prevent the extinction of our planet’s most iconic and biologically important species—but also to lay the groundwork for their full recovery.
WCS is leading the way with science-driven fieldwork and policy efforts across 60 countries.
We are protecting priority species that are ecologically vital and culturally valued: apes, big cats, bison, crocodilians, elephants, whales and coastal dolphins, sharks and rays, and tortoises and freshwater turtles.
In this section, you can read highlights of our progress toward protecting and recovering wildlife around the world, and learn about promising new conservation strategies for lions, jaguars, elephants, marine mammals, sharks, and more.
Elephants are beloved animals, central to many African and Asian cultures.
They also have far-reaching and beneficial impacts on their habitats.
Science has shown that elephants play a key role in the growth and health of forests by dispersing seeds, minerals, and nutrients over long distances, and by opening pathways and mineral-rich clearings.
Elephants’ browsing patterns also improve trees’ ability to store carbon, helping to curb climate change.
In short: the fates of elephants and humans are intertwined.
After decades of poaching for their ivory, human-elephant conflict, and destruction of habitats, African and Asian elephants have disappeared from about two centuries ago.
But there is hope: elephant populations have stabilized or increased in areas throughout Africa where WCS has ensured long-term, effective site management and the necessary resources, anti-poaching systems, and training.
WCS works in more elephant landscapes than any other conservation organization—and we have an evidencebased, proven strategy to not only stop their decline, but enable them to recover.
The landscapes we protect contain more than and an estimated 50 percent of Asian elephants.
Using science to combat elephant poaching and ivory trade: Historically, African forest elephants and African savanna elephants have been grouped together and scientifically classified as just Vulnerable.
Several African nations have used this to justify keeping the ivory trade open.
In elephant populations and threats helped confirm that these are two distinct species and must be respectively classified as Critically Endangered and Endangered.
Across critical elephant strongholds in Africa and Asia, WCS is working with governments and communities to develop improved solutions to poaching and human-wildlife conflict.
We seek to scale up law enforcement activities—including by hiring and training additional rapid response teams, and increasing helicopter and airplane patrols.
And we seek for all governments to close all markets and trade in ivory, strengthening our push for the EU, Japan, and other nations to shutter their legal domestic ivory markets and end their commercial ivory trade—as the US, China and the UK already have.
Ultimately, our goal is to expand and strengthen management of protected areas where elephants occur now, as well as in some regions where they used to occur, so their populations can fully recover, rewild, and thrive.
Increasing elephant populations: WCS’s quarter century of conservation action in the Republic of Congo’s Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park has made it one of the rare places in Africa where forest elephant populations have remained stable over the last 20 years.
In summer most notorious elephant poacher and ivory trafficker was the first to be convicted in Congo’s criminal court—the result of years of collaboration between WCS and the government.
Two Years, Zero Poaching We are taking our successful co-management approach and applying it to other key elephant landscapes, most notably in Mozambique’s Niassa National Reserve, which contains the country’s largest population of elephants.
WCS has successfully stemmed the crisis in Niassa, when elephant poaching was rampant; we have now seen more than two years with zero poaching incidents in the Reserve.
We have accomplished this by helping Niassa’s law enforcement officials stay a step ahead of poachers and traffickers, and through community-led conservation—working with the more than Reserve to strengthen livelihoods and develop improved solutions to human-wildlife conflict.
WCS signed a new agreement with the Government of Mozambique in 2020 and is now drafting a 10-year conservation management plan for Niassa.
Currently, Niassa’s elephant population is estimated at about our science indicates that this landscape could support as many as 20,000 elephants with WCS’s continued enforcement and community engagement programs.
Elephant populations have stabilized or increased in areas throughout Africa where WCS has ensured longterm, effective site management and the necessary resources, antipoaching systems, and training.
in Cambodia In rallied together with rangers and community members to free a 20-year-old Asian elephant from a bomb crater in Cambodia’s Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary—a critical stronghold for this species.
Leading Global Recovery of Big Cats Tigers roaming through the snowy Russian Far East and the lush forests of Asia.
Lions stalking prey across the vast savannas of Africa.
These are vivid images in our mind’s eye—stories handed down through generations, a part of our natural heritage.
But the presence of big cats in the wild is also an important sign of a healthy ecosystem.
As top predators, big cats regulate prey animals, and their absence can bring negative consequences.
In eastern North America for example, numbers of white-tailed deer, which carry Lyme disease, have exploded because there are no longer populations of pumas to keep them in check.
WCS has been at the forefront of big cat conservation for more than 50 years.
Today, with our government partners, WCS protects more big cat habitat and has more specialists on the ground than any other organization; we lead long-term programs at countries across Africa, Asia, and the Americas.
WCS’s strategy focuses on protecting big cat strongholds—large areas of intact wilderness where robust populations can thrive.
Our longstanding presence in these strongholds is translating to recovery of big cats, with science-driven solutions reining in such threats as poaching, retaliatory killings, habitat loss, and disease outbreaks.
Our global big cat conservation efforts are focused on stopping top threats and stabilizing or growing big cat populations at all WCS sites.
Where cats have been lost, we will look to “rewild” them.
We will also develop and launch an integrated mapping and reporting system for tigers, jaguars, and lions, enabling us to analyze changes in habitat and populations in near-real time to guide global recovery efforts.
In Africa, we are building a monitoring network for lions across the Sudano-Sahel region.
It will enable us to track trends in some of the most imperiled lion populations on the continent and is a key component of our long-term plan to recover lions.
Tigers WCS sites are home to around half the world’s wild tigers, and as a result of our strategy, they are bouncing back.
Where we have worked the longest, tiger populations are strongly recovering, and in some cases have reached their natural carrying capacities.
Safeguarding tiger strongholds: To date, WCS has supported governments to create protected areas of critical tiger habitat, including massive strongholds in the Russian Far East, in the mountains of India’s Western Ghats, and in Thailand’s tropical forests.
We protect these gains through rigorous patrolling, bolstering law enforcement, and partnering with communities to foster conservation.
Restoring tigers by increasing their food sources: WCS recently led research on how to fully restore a key tiger landscape by rewildling it with large prey animals.
Scientists looked at three large prey species in Thailand’s Western Forest Complex, a stronghold where tigers have made a comeback but have not fully recovered because of insufficient prey in some areas.
This first-of-its-kind study shows that if people living near tiger habitats modify activities even to a small degree, tiger prey can bounce back.
It provides a roadmap to tigers reaching carrying capacity in this vital landscape, and a model for other tiger strongholds.
WCS aims to reverse the decline of all big cat species and restore populations to numbers their habitats can naturally sustain.
Studying tigresses to guide protection: WCS scientists and partners published research providing insight into the complicated lives of tiger mothers.
They reduce their range by smaller area for up to 18 months—far longer than previously thought.
Understanding this behavior allows us to tailor patrols and intensify monitoring in real time to support tigresses and their cubs when they are at their most vulnerable.
Preventing deadly disease: Canine distemper virus is a lethal threat for the endangered Amur, or Siberian, tiger.
WCS and partners published research showing that by vaccinating even a small number of tigers—as they are tagged for monitoring, or for relocation—we can protect them and even prevent the extinction of the most endangered, isolated populations.
WCS conducted the first scientific study of wild tigers in India in the 1960s.
Recovering Big Cats With a strong focus on conserving our priority species across WCS strongholds, we will help move big cats along a recovery curve.
Our field experts will go from preventing further declines—as with lions—toward supporting their recovery—as with tigers.

The numbers above are preliminary and are subject to change upon audit.

OPPORTUNITY because of their strong programs aimed at improving the welfare standards of farmed animals and strengthening the animal advocacy movement across multiple countries.

We are especially honored to have the extraordinary support of our Partner, Advocate, Defender, Disruptor, and Champion members.

WE ARE SO GRATEFUL TO OUR LEGACY SOCIETY MEMBERS, who have generously chosen to leave an enduring legacy of compassion that will empower us to keep fighting for animals for as long as we are needed.

on factory farmed animals, I knew I wanted to do something to prevent it.

THL’s thoughtful and pragmatic approach really resonated with me.

real policy change at the corporations that profit from factory farming cruelty, and that policy change truly delivers for the animals.

With billions of animals enduring harrowing cruelties on industrial factory farms, THL’s laser focus on effectiveness and impact is crucial and invaluable.

I trust the organization’s evidence based and result-oriented approaches are the best avenues to transform animal welfare.

to recognize everyone who contributed to our mission.

You fuel our work with your donations, your time, your ideas, and your voices.

You partner with us year after year to continue pressuring an archaic and greedy industry to change its ways.

Everything you do makes a difference, and every one of us at THL is deeply grateful for your partnership.

We Stand for Wildlife® http://www.wcs.org MISSION WCS saves wildlife and wild places worldwide through science, conservation action, education, and inspiring people to value nature.

VISION WCS envisions a world where wildlife thrives in healthy lands and seas, valued by societies that embrace and benefit from the diversity and integrity of life on Earth.

guide our conservation action, and inform policy decisions to scale up our impact.

PROTECT We will protect and rewild priority species and wild places, and reduce the threats causing the loss of wildlife and wild places.

INSPIRE We will inspire and engage people to care about wildlife and wild places by leveraging the power of our zoos and aquarium, and expanding digital platforms to reach a global audience.

Mending our broken relationship with nature is the defining challenge of our lifetime.

The collapse of biodiversity, the climate crisis, and the pandemic have made that abundantly clear.

These calamities result from the extreme and unsustainable pressure we are putting on our planet’s natural resources—endangering all living things, including ourselves.

We must find a new path that balances human needs with protecting and restoring nature—a path that actually harnesses nature’s immense power.

This is a moment when Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) can make a vital contribution.

We have been at the vanguard of conservation since mission to save the earth’s wildlife and wild places through a unique mix of zoo- and field-based work.

WCS’s early Bronx Zoo-based efforts helped save an American icon—the buffalo—from extinction.

Since then, we have saved many more species and helped create, manage, expand, and strengthen hundreds of protected wilderness areas around the world, working hand in hand with Indigenous and local partners and national and local governments in 60 countries.

We have also connected more than and aquarium in New York City.

And every year, we help train the next generation of scientists, educators, and conservationists; last year we published more than articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals.

The results that we achieve every day—highlights of which we share in this impact report—give us hope for the future.

But we could not do any of it without generous support from you and other donors, which we were profoundly grateful for during the challenging pandemic year.

wildlife parks ■ Reimagine zoo-based learning during the pandemic ■ Devise promising new conservation strategies for lions, jaguars, elephants, whales, and sharks ■ Advance efforts to ban the commercial trade in wildlife for human consumption ■ Unlock the power of intact forests ■ Protect Nature’s Strongholds around the globe We also hope that the passion and dedication of our very diverse staff and partners around the world shine through when you read their profiles, which this year include a New York Aquarium marine mammal and bird keeper, an Indigenous ecotourism guide in Bolivia, a Robertson Big Cat Conservation Fellow from China, a Thai anti-poaching leader, and a Bronx Zoo admissions manager.

They are the heart and soul of everything that WCS does.

power of intact forests We face three interconnected crises: extinction; climate change is accelerating; and the pandemic, which is linked to the dangerous commercial trade in wildlife for human consumption, has claimed millions of lives.

But we have hope for the future because of your strong support for our mission—and because of all we have accomplished with that support.

SAVING WILDLIFE Today, an unprecedented world are at risk of vanishing forever.

This is not a loss we can afford.

From the smallest birds, bats, and insects that pollinate crops to the largest predators—including the big cats and sharks that keep food chains strong and balanced—biodiversity plays a vital role in the web of life that sustains us.

And it is not too late to reverse course.

Saving wildlife has always been WCS’s core mission, beginning with rewilding the buffalo, or bison, in the American West at the turn of the 20th century.

WCS’s ambitious is not only to prevent the extinction of our planet’s most iconic and biologically important species—but also to lay the groundwork for their full recovery.

WCS is leading the way with science-driven fieldwork and policy efforts across 60 countries.

We are protecting priority species that are ecologically vital and culturally valued: apes, big cats, bison, crocodilians, elephants, whales and coastal dolphins, sharks and rays, and tortoises and freshwater turtles.

In this section, you can read highlights of our progress toward protecting and recovering wildlife around the world, and learn about promising new conservation strategies for lions, jaguars, elephants, marine mammals, sharks, and more.

Elephants are beloved animals, central to many African and Asian cultures.

They also have far-reaching and beneficial impacts on their habitats.

Science has shown that elephants play a key role in the growth and health of forests by dispersing seeds, minerals, and nutrients over long distances, and by opening pathways and mineral-rich clearings.

Elephants’ browsing patterns also improve trees’ ability to store carbon, helping to curb climate change.

In short: the fates of elephants and humans are intertwined.

After decades of poaching for their ivory, human-elephant conflict, and destruction of habitats, African and Asian elephants have disappeared from about two centuries ago.

But there is hope: elephant populations have stabilized or increased in areas throughout Africa where WCS has ensured long-term, effective site management and the necessary resources, anti-poaching systems, and training.

WCS works in more elephant landscapes than any other conservation organization—and we have an evidencebased, proven strategy to not only stop their decline, but enable them to recover.

The landscapes we protect contain more than and an estimated 50 percent of Asian elephants.

Using science to combat elephant poaching and ivory trade: Historically, African forest elephants and African savanna elephants have been grouped together and scientifically classified as just Vulnerable.

Several African nations have used this to justify keeping the ivory trade open.

In elephant populations and threats helped confirm that these are two distinct species and must be respectively classified as Critically Endangered and Endangered.

Across critical elephant strongholds in Africa and Asia, WCS is working with governments and communities to develop improved solutions to poaching and human-wildlife conflict.

We seek to scale up law enforcement activities—including by hiring and training additional rapid response teams, and increasing helicopter and airplane patrols.

And we seek for all governments to close all markets and trade in ivory, strengthening our push for the EU, Japan, and other nations to shutter their legal domestic ivory markets and end their commercial ivory trade—as the US, China and the UK already have.

Ultimately, our goal is to expand and strengthen management of protected areas where elephants occur now, as well as in some regions where they used to occur, so their populations can fully recover, rewild, and thrive.

Increasing elephant populations: WCS’s quarter century of conservation action in the Republic of Congo’s Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park has made it one of the rare places in Africa where forest elephant populations have remained stable over the last 20 years.

In summer most notorious elephant poacher and ivory trafficker was the first to be convicted in Congo’s criminal court—the result of years of collaboration between WCS and the government.

Two Years, Zero Poaching We are taking our successful co-management approach and applying it to other key elephant landscapes, most notably in Mozambique’s Niassa National Reserve, which contains the country’s largest population of elephants.

WCS has successfully stemmed the crisis in Niassa, when elephant poaching was rampant; we have now seen more than two years with zero poaching incidents in the Reserve.

We have accomplished this by helping Niassa’s law enforcement officials stay a step ahead of poachers and traffickers, and through community-led conservation—working with the more than Reserve to strengthen livelihoods and develop improved solutions to human-wildlife conflict.

WCS signed a new agreement with the Government of Mozambique in 2020 and is now drafting a 10-year conservation management plan for Niassa.

Currently, Niassa’s elephant population is estimated at about our science indicates that this landscape could support as many as 20,000 elephants with WCS’s continued enforcement and community engagement programs.

Elephant populations have stabilized or increased in areas throughout Africa where WCS has ensured longterm, effective site management and the necessary resources, antipoaching systems, and training.

in Cambodia In rallied together with rangers and community members to free a 20-year-old Asian elephant from a bomb crater in Cambodia’s Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary—a critical stronghold for this species.

Leading Global Recovery of Big Cats Tigers roaming through the snowy Russian Far East and the lush forests of Asia.

Lions stalking prey across the vast savannas of Africa.

These are vivid images in our mind’s eye—stories handed down through generations, a part of our natural heritage.

But the presence of big cats in the wild is also an important sign of a healthy ecosystem.

As top predators, big cats regulate prey animals, and their absence can bring negative consequences.

In eastern North America for example, numbers of white-tailed deer, which carry Lyme disease, have exploded because there are no longer populations of pumas to keep them in check.

WCS has been at the forefront of big cat conservation for more than 50 years.

Today, with our government partners, WCS protects more big cat habitat and has more specialists on the ground than any other organization; we lead long-term programs at countries across Africa, Asia, and the Americas.

WCS’s strategy focuses on protecting big cat strongholds—large areas of intact wilderness where robust populations can thrive.

Our longstanding presence in these strongholds is translating to recovery of big cats, with science-driven solutions reining in such threats as poaching, retaliatory killings, habitat loss, and disease outbreaks.

Our global big cat conservation efforts are focused on stopping top threats and stabilizing or growing big cat populations at all WCS sites.

Where cats have been lost, we will look to “rewild” them.

We will also develop and launch an integrated mapping and reporting system for tigers, jaguars, and lions, enabling us to analyze changes in habitat and populations in near-real time to guide global recovery efforts.

In Africa, we are building a monitoring network for lions across the Sudano-Sahel region.

It will enable us to track trends in some of the most imperiled lion populations on the continent and is a key component of our long-term plan to recover lions.

Tigers WCS sites are home to around half the world’s wild tigers, and as a result of our strategy, they are bouncing back.

Where we have worked the longest, tiger populations are strongly recovering, and in some cases have reached their natural carrying capacities.

Safeguarding tiger strongholds: To date, WCS has supported governments to create protected areas of critical tiger habitat, including massive strongholds in the Russian Far East, in the mountains of India’s Western Ghats, and in Thailand’s tropical forests.

We protect these gains through rigorous patrolling, bolstering law enforcement, and partnering with communities to foster conservation.

Restoring tigers by increasing their food sources: WCS recently led research on how to fully restore a key tiger landscape by rewildling it with large prey animals.

Scientists looked at three large prey species in Thailand’s Western Forest Complex, a stronghold where tigers have made a comeback but have not fully recovered because of insufficient prey in some areas.

This first-of-its-kind study shows that if people living near tiger habitats modify activities even to a small degree, tiger prey can bounce back.

It provides a roadmap to tigers reaching carrying capacity in this vital landscape, and a model for other tiger strongholds.

WCS aims to reverse the decline of all big cat species and restore populations to numbers their habitats can naturally sustain.

Studying tigresses to guide protection: WCS scientists and partners published research providing insight into the complicated lives of tiger mothers.

They reduce their range by smaller area for up to 18 months—far longer than previously thought.

Understanding this behavior allows us to tailor patrols and intensify monitoring in real time to support tigresses and their cubs when they are at their most vulnerable.

Preventing deadly disease: Canine distemper virus is a lethal threat for the endangered Amur, or Siberian, tiger.

WCS and partners published research showing that by vaccinating even a small number of tigers—as they are tagged for monitoring, or for relocation—we can protect them and even prevent the extinction of the most endangered, isolated populations.

WCS conducted the first scientific study of wild tigers in India in the 1960s.

Recovering Big Cats With a strong focus on conserving our priority species across WCS strongholds, we will help move big cats along a recovery curve.

Our field experts will go from preventing further declines—as with lions—toward supporting their recovery—as with tigers.