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This has improved the management of the protected area, which now supports a range of biodiversity and ecosystem services.
it is one of the best wildlife sanctuaries in Thailand and has become globally recognized amongst wildlife conservation communities as a standard for protected areas.
After I finished my bachelor’s degree in wildlife from Kasetsart University, I was a contract officer at a wildlife sanctuary near Huai Kha Khaeng.
For four years, I managed a small ranger station in a very remote area and it was a really tough place to live and work.
I’ve now been doing conservation work for about years helped me improve my skills in real-world situations.
Another accomplishment I feel proud of is pushing for science-based management, strong law enforcement, and collaboration with people who rely on the sanctuary.
These approaches have significantly reduced poaching incidents in the area, indicated by the reduction of poaching camps over the years.
As tigers, elephants, and other wildlife gradually recover and disperse into the surrounding protected area, we want to make the buffer zone around the protected area safer to reduce humanwildlife conflict.
I also hope that Huai Kha Khaeng will continue to be a model for younger generations of wildlife researchers and managers, to learn how to conserve protected areas based on science.
■ Strengthen and expand surveillance at key points along wildlife supply chains: We will strengthen pathogen surveillance within and beyond key countries by improving field-based capabilities, and through timely analysis and reporting.
■ Support law enforcement agencies to disrupt wildlife trafficking networks: We will provide actionable intelligence and other targeted support to law enforcement and judicial agencies to disrupt and deter criminal networks that traffic wild animals within countries and across borders.
■ Advance global commitments: We will advance a strategy to win global commitments to measures designed to prevent the emergence and spread of new zoonotic-origin diseases, as well as a potential new pandemic prevention treaty or protocol, focusing on the United Nations, the Convention on Biological Diversity, and intergovernmental organizations such as the World Health Organization and the World Organization for Animal Health.
I manage anti-poaching patrols and monitor wildlife populations in Thailand’s Huai Kha Khaeng Sanctuary and promote conservation in local schools and communities.
In the US: We are urging the Administration and Congress to strengthen global health security by preventing the root causes of zoonotic-origin pandemics.
WCS is lobbying and mobilizing the public to enact the Preventing Future Pandemics Act and the Global Pandemic Prevention & Biosecurity Act, and we are pushing for a catalytic global fund to prevent and prepare for the next pandemic.
Supporting Law Enforcement Agencies WCS has the largest global anti-wildlife trafficking presence of any conservation organization, with teams on the ground in nearly 30 countries.
While the danger of pathogen spillover is not limited to trafficked wildlife, it poses a sizeable risk, and increased enforcement efforts are needed as countries adopt stricter legislation.
In India, for example, WCS provided support to law enforcement agencies in a number of wildlife trafficking cases throughout the last year, resulting in arrests as well as seizures by the authorities of highvalue wildlife and/or products including pangolins, leopard fur, ivory, and Indian star tortoises.
A Decade of Discovery at the Bronx Zoo’s Molecular Diagnostics Lab WCS has long recognized how helpful molecular technologies could be in detecting disease risks and better understanding infectious diseases in wildlife.
To this end, over a decade ago we created a zoo-based molecular diagnostics laboratory at the Bronx Zoo’s Wildlife Health Center, led by Dr. Tracie Seimon—one of only a few such zoo-based labs in the world.
The molecular program’s fascinating discoveries include: using environmental DNA (eDNA) to find endangered species; uncovering illegal wildlife trade activity; detecting wildlife disease risks; and conducting biodiversity surveys on Mount Everest.
We have developed mobile capacity to deploy our diagnostic tools around the globe, enabling scientists to detect wildlife disease outbreaks and inform conservation measures—including for chytrid fungus that threatens amphibians, and canine distemper virus, which is impacting Amur tigers.
pandemic, and global leaders looking to WCS for guidance, we issue a new policy, backed by science, on the actions that governments and societies around the globe must take in order to reduce the risks of future pandemics.
in NYC birds and creates a diagnostic technique to screen for the virus; a joint effort by physicians and WCS veterinarians produces a new animal vaccine, developed with the samples WCS collected.
formally accepted by the G7 at June summit, recognizing at the highest political levels the essential connection between human, animal, and environmental health.
International Development and the Centers for Disease Control, WCS leads a cuttingedge network for monitoring diseases in wild birds in 20+ countries, helping to stem the spread of a deadly H5N1 flu outbreak.
research on Ebola virus, believed to have killed as many as one-third of the world’s gorillas.
When the Bronx Zoo’s tiger, Nadia, contracts COVID-and human health professionals in the US and abroad—helping advance the world’s understanding of the novel coronavirus, and protecting other cats in zoos worldwide.
establishes a molecular laboratory to elevate animal care at WCS’s zoos and aquarium, and more quickly respond to global disease outbreaks.
Advancing Health with Science and Partnerships WCS’s veterinarians and other health experts partner across borders and disciplines to solve the world’s most pressing wildlife health challenges.
At the heart of our One Health approach is community: we collaborate with diverse partners ranging from government and international health agencies, to villagers in remote forests, to restaurants in big cities.
In Central Africa, Ebola remains a threat to human communities and a serious concern in the decline of gorilla and chimpanzee populations.
Together with governments and local villages, we set up an early warning system for Ebola outbreaks focusing on remote areas with high biodiversity, which also have some of the poorest access to health resources.
Our accomplishments include: Conducting Ebola education campaigns across more than in northern Congo—home to about 60 percent of the world’s gorillas—that reached 6,600+ traditional hunters and thousands more women and children.
Building a surveillance network of traditional hunters from animal carcasses to date—which WCS diagnostic analysis confirmed posed no risk of Ebola spread.
Reducing the Urban Wild Meat Trade The illegal wild meat trade is widespread in cities in Central Africa.
Though this trade can and does exist legally, many restaurants also source protected wildlife caught by poachers.
In partners released a study finding that restaurants play a key role in whether protected wildlife winds up on the menu, and that monkeys are most at risk of poaching and trade in the Central African cities of Kinshasa and Brazzaville.
Our focus groups confirmed the widespread view that wild meat is a luxury item and sign of wealth—which is also the case in China and other countries.
In response, WCS, together with Kinshasa-based organizations and YoYo Communications, supported the government to launch a unique behavior change campaign in Kinshasa.
Avoiding negative messaging, we instead showcase the city’s vibrant social life.
Partnering with a Congolese celebrity chef, our campaign invites people to preserve wildlife through a new food trend: celebrating Congolese cuisine without wild meat.
With Oxford University, we are tracking our progress on changing perceptions and reducing wild meat demand.
We will expand rollout of SMART for health, creating a robust worldwide network of wildlife disease sentinels collecting and sharing information to stop the consumption of illegally caught wild meat—and prevent future pandemics.
In wildlife trafficking hotspots, we will work with consumers and restaurants to reduce demand for wild meat, conduct surveillance, and support law enforcement efforts across the globe to protect wildlife and prevent disease outbreaks.
protected areas in real time—and shut down poaching and other illegal practices in partnership with law enforcement.
SMART is now used by WCS and other organizations at 50,000 protected area staff trained in its use.
WCS has now built upon this approach to collect real-time wildlife health updates—SMART for health— to detect and stop emerging disease threats such as Ebola, avian influenza, and coronaviruses wherever they might emerge.
SMART for health is accessible via smartphones in even extremely remote areas, and supports tracking of animal behaviors, mortality events, and photo uploads.
WCS is piloting the tool in Cambodia, Lao PDR, Vietnam, and Mongolia, in support of wildlife health surveillance system development by our government partners.
But just one visit to a zoo or aquarium has the power to rekindle that vital connection.
WCS’s zoos and aquarium serve as vast oases at the heart of a metropolis where nature can be hard to come by.
These beloved New York City cultural institutions attract people from every borough and beyond—most of whom will never be able to travel to Tanzania or Patagonia to see the planet’s most iconic animals.
WCS sets the standard worldwide for best-in-class animal care, innovative exhibits, and zoo-based conservation through our powerful combination of five urban parks— the Bronx Zoo, New York Aquarium, Central Park Zoo, Queens Zoo, and Prospect Park Zoo—and conservation work in 60 countries across the globe.
While our parks were closed for several months during the pandemic, hundreds of our dedicated staff continued caring for our more than ways to help people connect with nature virtually.
In just the first year since our parks have reopened, we have safely hosted nearly to in-person experiences—and many of our parks’ animals, such as our gorillas, are enjoying having visitors once again.
Read on for more about how our parks are making an enormous difference for wildlife, for wild places, and for people of all ages and walks of life in New York and around the world.
CONSERVATION IMPACT Caring for Rescued Animals at WCS Parks WCS’s Bronx Zoo and our other wildlife parks are recognized as global leaders in breeding endangered species and educating millions of visitors each year about wildlife and conservation.
A lesser-known—but extremely important—role our parks play is taking in animals that cannot return to the wild.
WCS receives a multitude of calls from government agencies and other organizations seeking guidance on injured, orphaned, and confiscated animals—and in recent years, we have cared for tens of thousands of rescued animals across our sites.
By providing these animals with the long-term care they need, we are also inspiring zoo and aquarium visitors to learn more about the risks these species face in the wild and to support urgently needed conservation action.
A few years ago, Amos was found in the Port of Corpus Christi, Texas with drooping wings.
Rescuers determined that he had been shot in both wings and would not be able to survive in the wild.
Our veterinarians have ensured that he receives the best possible healthcare, and though he will never be able to fly, Amos now lives at the Bronx Zoo, where his larger-than-life personality is helping to educate visitors about humanwildlife conflict.
WCS stepped in to welcome a harbor seal pup at the New York Aquarium after a team at the Pacific Marine Mammal Center discovered her alone on a rocky beach in California with her umbilical cord still attached.
The veterinarians who examined her suspected she was born prematurely, so rehabilitating her for release back into the wild was not possible.
Harbor seal pups can become orphaned for a multitude of reasons, including their mothers being startled or disturbed by human activity.
WCS will remain steadfast in our work with government agencies and partners across the country to urgently respond to animals in need of expert care.
Our veterinarians and curators will also collaborate with our field staff to help breed and rewild species at risk around the world—ones that could otherwise disappear forever.
Ruth’s rescue story began in injured in a collision with a vehicle in Utah.
Accidents like these pose a serious threat to the golden eagle population in the western United States.
Ruth’s injury could not heal properly, and she lost the range of motion and strength needed to fly, hunt, and care for herself in the wild.
But Ruth is a fighter, and the rehabilitator who was caring for her called the Bronx Zoo to ensure that she could receive the expert care she needs for the rest of her life.
Ruth’s beauty and strength, and her new lease on life, are sure to inspire countless zoo visitors for decades.
Providing Jobs, Internships, and More throughout COVID Our flagship Bronx Zoo is an anchor in the community: we employ more youth than any other organization in the borough.
In the past year, WCS intensified support to our city’s young people, providing a range of online and in-person job, internship, and volunteer opportunities.
WCS jobs and internships give young New Yorkers pathways to transform their experiences with WCS into future careers.
Olivia Ramos, pictured here, began her journey with WCS in Education Fellow at the Bronx Zoo.
Now a full-time WCS Youth Development Coordinator, Olivia inspires her fellow Bronx youth to become involved in conservation, and helps shape WCS’s educational programming.
When we reopened the Bronx Zoo last July, we had to get a new reservation system up and running for up to out how to speak with guests about masks.
I manage more than and challenging sometimes, but we’re like a family so we make it work.
And if I’m stressed, I can go see lions or pet the goats in the Children’s Zoo.
Over the years, I’ve probably helped thousands of visitors so it’s hard to choose one.
One day I saw a little girl crying and decided I had to help by giving her something extra special.
I had turned to something else when I felt a tap on my shoulder.
I’ve always been a person who wants to go above and beyond.
There’s a longtime WCS Member, Donna, who always remembers me.
She’ll come over and show me amazing photos that she takes of wildlife at each of our parks.
I also once got a chance to get kisses from a sea lion.
It was such a weird feeling on my cheek.
and I was super nervous, but I’ve never forgotten it.
They’re beautiful but so big and so picky.
They decide whether to take the food from your hand.
When I started in it’s their first job, too.
They often come to me for guidance and advice.
My daughters are now been at WCS nearly their whole lives.
All those years, it has been an extremely supportive place to work.
That’s what I want for my daughters: the chance to be themselves—authentic, caring human beings—and be happy in whatever they do.
I also know that if we keep visitors satisfied and coming back to the zoo, the proceeds from their tickets will help prevent the extinction of wildlife all over the world.
Everyone has a role to play in saving wildlife and wild places, and forging a connection to nature is the first step.

This has improved the management of the protected area, which now supports a range of biodiversity and ecosystem services.

it is one of the best wildlife sanctuaries in Thailand and has become globally recognized amongst wildlife conservation communities as a standard for protected areas.

After I finished my bachelor’s degree in wildlife from Kasetsart University, I was a contract officer at a wildlife sanctuary near Huai Kha Khaeng.

For four years, I managed a small ranger station in a very remote area and it was a really tough place to live and work.

I’ve now been doing conservation work for about years helped me improve my skills in real-world situations.

Another accomplishment I feel proud of is pushing for science-based management, strong law enforcement, and collaboration with people who rely on the sanctuary.

These approaches have significantly reduced poaching incidents in the area, indicated by the reduction of poaching camps over the years.

As tigers, elephants, and other wildlife gradually recover and disperse into the surrounding protected area, we want to make the buffer zone around the protected area safer to reduce humanwildlife conflict.

I also hope that Huai Kha Khaeng will continue to be a model for younger generations of wildlife researchers and managers, to learn how to conserve protected areas based on science.

■ Strengthen and expand surveillance at key points along wildlife supply chains: We will strengthen pathogen surveillance within and beyond key countries by improving field-based capabilities, and through timely analysis and reporting.

■ Support law enforcement agencies to disrupt wildlife trafficking networks: We will provide actionable intelligence and other targeted support to law enforcement and judicial agencies to disrupt and deter criminal networks that traffic wild animals within countries and across borders.

■ Advance global commitments: We will advance a strategy to win global commitments to measures designed to prevent the emergence and spread of new zoonotic-origin diseases, as well as a potential new pandemic prevention treaty or protocol, focusing on the United Nations, the Convention on Biological Diversity, and intergovernmental organizations such as the World Health Organization and the World Organization for Animal Health.

I manage anti-poaching patrols and monitor wildlife populations in Thailand’s Huai Kha Khaeng Sanctuary and promote conservation in local schools and communities.

In the US: We are urging the Administration and Congress to strengthen global health security by preventing the root causes of zoonotic-origin pandemics.

WCS is lobbying and mobilizing the public to enact the Preventing Future Pandemics Act and the Global Pandemic Prevention & Biosecurity Act, and we are pushing for a catalytic global fund to prevent and prepare for the next pandemic.

Supporting Law Enforcement Agencies WCS has the largest global anti-wildlife trafficking presence of any conservation organization, with teams on the ground in nearly 30 countries.

While the danger of pathogen spillover is not limited to trafficked wildlife, it poses a sizeable risk, and increased enforcement efforts are needed as countries adopt stricter legislation.

In India, for example, WCS provided support to law enforcement agencies in a number of wildlife trafficking cases throughout the last year, resulting in arrests as well as seizures by the authorities of highvalue wildlife and/or products including pangolins, leopard fur, ivory, and Indian star tortoises.

A Decade of Discovery at the Bronx Zoo’s Molecular Diagnostics Lab WCS has long recognized how helpful molecular technologies could be in detecting disease risks and better understanding infectious diseases in wildlife.

To this end, over a decade ago we created a zoo-based molecular diagnostics laboratory at the Bronx Zoo’s Wildlife Health Center, led by Dr. Tracie Seimon—one of only a few such zoo-based labs in the world.

The molecular program’s fascinating discoveries include: using environmental DNA (eDNA) to find endangered species; uncovering illegal wildlife trade activity; detecting wildlife disease risks; and conducting biodiversity surveys on Mount Everest.

We have developed mobile capacity to deploy our diagnostic tools around the globe, enabling scientists to detect wildlife disease outbreaks and inform conservation measures—including for chytrid fungus that threatens amphibians, and canine distemper virus, which is impacting Amur tigers.

pandemic, and global leaders looking to WCS for guidance, we issue a new policy, backed by science, on the actions that governments and societies around the globe must take in order to reduce the risks of future pandemics.

in NYC birds and creates a diagnostic technique to screen for the virus; a joint effort by physicians and WCS veterinarians produces a new animal vaccine, developed with the samples WCS collected.

formally accepted by the G7 at June summit, recognizing at the highest political levels the essential connection between human, animal, and environmental health.

International Development and the Centers for Disease Control, WCS leads a cuttingedge network for monitoring diseases in wild birds in 20+ countries, helping to stem the spread of a deadly H5N1 flu outbreak.

research on Ebola virus, believed to have killed as many as one-third of the world’s gorillas.

When the Bronx Zoo’s tiger, Nadia, contracts COVID-and human health professionals in the US and abroad—helping advance the world’s understanding of the novel coronavirus, and protecting other cats in zoos worldwide.

establishes a molecular laboratory to elevate animal care at WCS’s zoos and aquarium, and more quickly respond to global disease outbreaks.

Advancing Health with Science and Partnerships WCS’s veterinarians and other health experts partner across borders and disciplines to solve the world’s most pressing wildlife health challenges.

At the heart of our One Health approach is community: we collaborate with diverse partners ranging from government and international health agencies, to villagers in remote forests, to restaurants in big cities.

In Central Africa, Ebola remains a threat to human communities and a serious concern in the decline of gorilla and chimpanzee populations.

Together with governments and local villages, we set up an early warning system for Ebola outbreaks focusing on remote areas with high biodiversity, which also have some of the poorest access to health resources.

Our accomplishments include: Conducting Ebola education campaigns across more than in northern Congo—home to about 60 percent of the world’s gorillas—that reached 6,600+ traditional hunters and thousands more women and children.

Building a surveillance network of traditional hunters from animal carcasses to date—which WCS diagnostic analysis confirmed posed no risk of Ebola spread.

Reducing the Urban Wild Meat Trade The illegal wild meat trade is widespread in cities in Central Africa.

Though this trade can and does exist legally, many restaurants also source protected wildlife caught by poachers.

In partners released a study finding that restaurants play a key role in whether protected wildlife winds up on the menu, and that monkeys are most at risk of poaching and trade in the Central African cities of Kinshasa and Brazzaville.

Our focus groups confirmed the widespread view that wild meat is a luxury item and sign of wealth—which is also the case in China and other countries.

In response, WCS, together with Kinshasa-based organizations and YoYo Communications, supported the government to launch a unique behavior change campaign in Kinshasa.

Avoiding negative messaging, we instead showcase the city’s vibrant social life.

Partnering with a Congolese celebrity chef, our campaign invites people to preserve wildlife through a new food trend: celebrating Congolese cuisine without wild meat.

With Oxford University, we are tracking our progress on changing perceptions and reducing wild meat demand.

We will expand rollout of SMART for health, creating a robust worldwide network of wildlife disease sentinels collecting and sharing information to stop the consumption of illegally caught wild meat—and prevent future pandemics.

In wildlife trafficking hotspots, we will work with consumers and restaurants to reduce demand for wild meat, conduct surveillance, and support law enforcement efforts across the globe to protect wildlife and prevent disease outbreaks.

protected areas in real time—and shut down poaching and other illegal practices in partnership with law enforcement.

SMART is now used by WCS and other organizations at 50,000 protected area staff trained in its use.

WCS has now built upon this approach to collect real-time wildlife health updates—SMART for health— to detect and stop emerging disease threats such as Ebola, avian influenza, and coronaviruses wherever they might emerge.

SMART for health is accessible via smartphones in even extremely remote areas, and supports tracking of animal behaviors, mortality events, and photo uploads.

WCS is piloting the tool in Cambodia, Lao PDR, Vietnam, and Mongolia, in support of wildlife health surveillance system development by our government partners.

But just one visit to a zoo or aquarium has the power to rekindle that vital connection.

WCS’s zoos and aquarium serve as vast oases at the heart of a metropolis where nature can be hard to come by.

These beloved New York City cultural institutions attract people from every borough and beyond—most of whom will never be able to travel to Tanzania or Patagonia to see the planet’s most iconic animals.

WCS sets the standard worldwide for best-in-class animal care, innovative exhibits, and zoo-based conservation through our powerful combination of five urban parks— the Bronx Zoo, New York Aquarium, Central Park Zoo, Queens Zoo, and Prospect Park Zoo—and conservation work in 60 countries across the globe.

While our parks were closed for several months during the pandemic, hundreds of our dedicated staff continued caring for our more than ways to help people connect with nature virtually.

In just the first year since our parks have reopened, we have safely hosted nearly to in-person experiences—and many of our parks’ animals, such as our gorillas, are enjoying having visitors once again.

Read on for more about how our parks are making an enormous difference for wildlife, for wild places, and for people of all ages and walks of life in New York and around the world.

CONSERVATION IMPACT Caring for Rescued Animals at WCS Parks WCS’s Bronx Zoo and our other wildlife parks are recognized as global leaders in breeding endangered species and educating millions of visitors each year about wildlife and conservation.

A lesser-known—but extremely important—role our parks play is taking in animals that cannot return to the wild.

WCS receives a multitude of calls from government agencies and other organizations seeking guidance on injured, orphaned, and confiscated animals—and in recent years, we have cared for tens of thousands of rescued animals across our sites.

By providing these animals with the long-term care they need, we are also inspiring zoo and aquarium visitors to learn more about the risks these species face in the wild and to support urgently needed conservation action.

A few years ago, Amos was found in the Port of Corpus Christi, Texas with drooping wings.

Rescuers determined that he had been shot in both wings and would not be able to survive in the wild.

Our veterinarians have ensured that he receives the best possible healthcare, and though he will never be able to fly, Amos now lives at the Bronx Zoo, where his larger-than-life personality is helping to educate visitors about humanwildlife conflict.

WCS stepped in to welcome a harbor seal pup at the New York Aquarium after a team at the Pacific Marine Mammal Center discovered her alone on a rocky beach in California with her umbilical cord still attached.

The veterinarians who examined her suspected she was born prematurely, so rehabilitating her for release back into the wild was not possible.

Harbor seal pups can become orphaned for a multitude of reasons, including their mothers being startled or disturbed by human activity.

WCS will remain steadfast in our work with government agencies and partners across the country to urgently respond to animals in need of expert care.

Our veterinarians and curators will also collaborate with our field staff to help breed and rewild species at risk around the world—ones that could otherwise disappear forever.

Ruth’s rescue story began in injured in a collision with a vehicle in Utah.

Accidents like these pose a serious threat to the golden eagle population in the western United States.

Ruth’s injury could not heal properly, and she lost the range of motion and strength needed to fly, hunt, and care for herself in the wild.

But Ruth is a fighter, and the rehabilitator who was caring for her called the Bronx Zoo to ensure that she could receive the expert care she needs for the rest of her life.

Ruth’s beauty and strength, and her new lease on life, are sure to inspire countless zoo visitors for decades.

Providing Jobs, Internships, and More throughout COVID Our flagship Bronx Zoo is an anchor in the community: we employ more youth than any other organization in the borough.

In the past year, WCS intensified support to our city’s young people, providing a range of online and in-person job, internship, and volunteer opportunities.

WCS jobs and internships give young New Yorkers pathways to transform their experiences with WCS into future careers.

Olivia Ramos, pictured here, began her journey with WCS in Education Fellow at the Bronx Zoo.

Now a full-time WCS Youth Development Coordinator, Olivia inspires her fellow Bronx youth to become involved in conservation, and helps shape WCS’s educational programming.

When we reopened the Bronx Zoo last July, we had to get a new reservation system up and running for up to out how to speak with guests about masks.

I manage more than and challenging sometimes, but we’re like a family so we make it work.

And if I’m stressed, I can go see lions or pet the goats in the Children’s Zoo.

Over the years, I’ve probably helped thousands of visitors so it’s hard to choose one.

One day I saw a little girl crying and decided I had to help by giving her something extra special.

I had turned to something else when I felt a tap on my shoulder.

I’ve always been a person who wants to go above and beyond.

There’s a longtime WCS Member, Donna, who always remembers me.

She’ll come over and show me amazing photos that she takes of wildlife at each of our parks.

I also once got a chance to get kisses from a sea lion.

It was such a weird feeling on my cheek.

and I was super nervous, but I’ve never forgotten it.

They’re beautiful but so big and so picky.

They decide whether to take the food from your hand.

When I started in it’s their first job, too.

They often come to me for guidance and advice.

My daughters are now been at WCS nearly their whole lives.

All those years, it has been an extremely supportive place to work.

That’s what I want for my daughters: the chance to be themselves—authentic, caring human beings—and be happy in whatever they do.

I also know that if we keep visitors satisfied and coming back to the zoo, the proceeds from their tickets will help prevent the extinction of wildlife all over the world.

Everyone has a role to play in saving wildlife and wild places, and forging a connection to nature is the first step.