Wildlife Conservation

Study on Papua New Guinea's Long-beaked Echidna Reveals Elusive Habits

harminka — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 03:29:09 -0500

A Wildlife Conservation Society research intern working in the wilds of Papua New Guinea has successfully completed what many other field biologists considered "mission impossible"—the first study of a rare egg-laying mammal called the long-beaked echidna.

Afghanistan declares its first national park

harminka — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:20:45 -0500

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) applauded Afghanistan's National Environment Protection Agency (NEPA), which announced today the establishment of the country's first internationally recognized national park.

Wildlife Conservation Society helps Cameroon create new national park

harminka — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:16:48 -0600

Gorilla population surveys, conducted by the Wildlife Conservation Society, have helped the government of Cameroon create a new national park which will protect more than 600 gorillas, along with other threatened species such as chimpanzees, forest elephants, buffaloes, and bongo.

Asian elephants under increasing threat as illegal ivory prices soar

harminka — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 09:32:31 -0600

Indochina’s few surviving elephants are under increasing threat from booming illegal ivory prices in Viet Nam, according to a new market analysis released today by TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network.

Wildlife need more complex travel plans

harminka — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 07:17:24 -0500

A new UC Davis study says that people trying to help nature by designing corridors for wildlife need to think more naturally.

Why do conservationists really help wildlife?

harminka — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 01:43:52 -0500

Volunteers who take part in conservation efforts may do it more for themselves than the wildlife they are trying to protect, a University of Alberta case study shows.

Wildlife Conservation Society discovers 'Planet of the Apes'

harminka — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 08:35:33 -0500

The world's population of critically endangered western lowland gorillas received a huge boost today when the Wildlife Conservation Society released a census showing massive numbers of these secretive great apes alive and well in the Republic of Congo.

The Wildlife Conservation Society Find Mother Lode Of Gorillas

Armen Hareyan — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 10:39:21 -0500

The world’s population of critically endangered western lowland gorillas has received a huge boost. A new, groundbreaking census released by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) shows massive numbers of these secretive great apes alive and well in the Republic of Congo.

Getting wild about conservation

seher — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:16:06 -0500

TV wildlife presenter Chris Packham will be giving a talk to would-be conservationists at The University of Manchester tomorrow (Wednesday, March 26).

Asia's odd-ball antelope faces migration crisis

harminka — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:28:14 -0500

Take a deer’s body, attach a camel’s head and add a Jimmy Durante nose, and you have a saiga – the odd-ball antelope with the enormous schnoz that lives on the isolated steppes of Central Asia. Unfortunately, they are as endangered as they are strange-looking due to over-hunting.

'Genetic corridors' are next step to saving tigers

harminka — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 07:26:50 -0600

The Wildlife Conservation Society and the Panthera Foundation announced plans to establish a 5,000 mile-long “genetic corridor” from Bhutan to Burma that would allow tiger populations to roam freely across landscapes. The corridor, first announced at the United Nations on January 30th, would span eight countries and represent the largest block of tiger habitat left on earth.

Emerging disease markets

harminka — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 08:08:57 -0500

Instead of attacking wild birds for our new disease problems, a far more cost effective approach should focus on keeping wild animals separate in the places where they often commingle: in wildlife markets and international trade, according to wildlife health experts from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in a recent issue of the prestigious Journal of Wildlife Diseases.