Saving Wildlife & Wild Places

41 trees preserved for the future 118 lbs waterborne waste not created 17,401 galllons wastewater flow saved 1925 lbs solid waste not generated 3791 lbs net greenhouse gasses prevented 29,015,600 BTUs energy not consumed Additional savings for using paper manufactured with 100% windpower 1924 lbs ghg emissions not generated 2 barrels fuel oil unused not driving 1905 miles WCS planting 131 trees Wildlife Conservation Society Bronx Zoo, 2300 Southern Boulevard Bronx, New York 10460 SAVING WILDLIFE 718.220.5100 www.wcs.org & WILD PLACES [ COVER ] Baby Pende, one [ INSIDE COVER ] A southern of many western lowland elephant seal rests on the gorillas born and bred at the coast of Península Valdés in Bronx Zoo. Argentina. The region falls within one of more than 75 landscapes and seascapes WCS works to conserve. The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) saves wildlife and wild places worldwide. We do so through science, global conservation, education, and the management of the world’s largest system of urban wildlife parks, led by the flagship Bronx Zoo. Together these activities change attitudes toward nature and help people imagine wildlife and humans living in harmony. WCS is committed to this mission because it is essential to the integrity of life on Earth. FROM NEW YORK CITY TO THE WORLD WCS WAS FOUNDED IN 1895 AS THE NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY AT THE URGING OF CONSERVATIONIST AND FUTURE PRESIDENT THEODORE ROOSEVELT. MORE THAN A CENTURY LATER, IT IS THE PREEMINENT SCIENCE-BASED WILDLIFE CONSERVATION ORGANIZATION IN THE WORLD. Since our inception, WCS has dispatched leading conser- the world’s biodiversity. The gorillas of Africa, the tigers vationists to all corners of the globe and developed five throughout Asia, the macaws in South America, and the world-class zoological parks in New York City. The sharks and turtles traveling through our planet’s seas first and most famous of those parks, the Bronx Zoo, benefit from our foresight. was established in 1899. Within a decade, we aided the To fulfill our mission, WCS does not shy away from American bison’s recovery by sending some of our Bronx- adversity or the complex demands of working in conflict bred animals to western prairies. Today, we continue and post-conflict areas, such as Afghanistan, the Democratic to harness the power of our parks and our fieldwork to Republic of Congo, and South Sudan. 5 protect wildlife and wild places in perpetuity. Each year in New York City, more than 4 million people WCS’s strategy addresses visit our wildlife parks—the Bronx Zoo, Central Park Zoo, Prospect Park Zoo, Queens Zoo, and New York Aquarium. conservation at every angle. Within the zoos and aquarium, our award-winning exhibits fascinate the public with naturalistic settings and infor- With a dedication to science-based conservation and mative graphics. Our animals are ambassadors for the wildlife education, our 4,000-plus team fosters environmental protection of their wild relatives and native habitats. Our stewardship within schools, communities, governments, visitors encounter the planet’s amazing biodiversity and and corporations. To save wildlife and wild places, we learn how they can help secure its future. Our educators address four global issues: climate change; natural resource reach students and teachers in New York and around the extraction; the relationship between wildlife health and world. Our veterinarians and other experts provide the human health; and the connection between sustainable A hippopotamus in the best care available to our parks’ wildlife collections while development and local livelihoods. SOCIETY CONSERVATION WILDLIFE Luangwa River. Since 2003, contributing to our conservation work abroad. Simply put, WCS’s strategy addresses conservation at WCS’s COMACO program has Across four of the world’s continents and all of its every angle. The knowledge we gain in the field, in the lab, worked to simultaneously oceans, WCS conducts more than 500 conservation proj- and in the classroom serves to sustain key species and wild improve rural livelihoods and ects. Our staff work on the ground in the often remote places, to safeguard humans, livestock, and wildlife from restore local wildlife populations locales of 60-plus countries. We do so to protect priority disease, and to keep local economies thriving. in Zambia. landscapes and seascapes, and the species that depend on them. We are committed to protecting 25 percent of A CONSERVATION LEGACY 1934 William Beebe completes 1908 NYZS work record-setting to protect fur 1916 A fully-equipped zoo- 3,000-foot dive in seals in the Bering based animal hospital opens bathysphere off Sea’s Pribilof on Bronx Zoo grounds. Bermuda's coast. 1894 Theodore Roosevelt, Islands begins, 1930 NYZS officers head as Boone and Crockett & 1902 NYZS resulting in a a campaign against the Club president, appoints 1901 The Bronx takes over 1912 international 1923 William & 1929 The Bronx Zoo opens misguided slaughter of a committee asking New 1897 NYZS Zoo hires its management of treaty outlawing Beebe leads his its first wildlife education thousands of wild ungulates York State to establish undertakes its first full-time the New York open-ocean first expedition department, teaching zoology, in Zululand, South Africa to a zoological society in first expedition zoological park Aquarium in lower seal hunting for to the Galapagos conservation, and natural eradicate tsetse fly. New York City. to Alaska. veterinarian. Manhattan. the first time. Islands. history to visitors and students. 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1895 The New York 1899 The Bronx 1913 NYZS Director 1916 NYZS 1924 Congress 1929 NYZS passes 1931 NYZS analysis of Zoological Society Zoo (formally, William Hornaday helps write Curator of Birds, passes new code resolution to oppose whaling logs illustrates (NYZS) is founded. The New York language in Underwood Tariff William Beebe of game laws for introduction of non-native distribution and seasonal Zoological Park) Act, prohibiting importation opens a tropical Alaska as a result animals in U.S. national migrations of whales and officially opens. of bird plumage for use research station of NYZS pressure. parks and urges the National becomes foundation of later in hats. in British Guiana. Park Service to prohibit all cetacean conservation work. NYZS establishes such introductions. & & 1907 The American Bison the Department of 1922 NYZS Society transfers Bronx Zoo Tropical Research begins campaign 1929 After 10-year bison to protected lands in there in 1923. against the killing battle, the Migratory Bird the American West to restore of “vermin” Conservation Act passes, the species' decimated species: eagles calling for 14 sanctuaries populations. and other birds, across the U.S. bears, and wolves. 1957 New York Aquarium 1967 NYZS opens in Coney Island, supports Sir moving from its original Iain Douglas- Manhattan location Hamilton’s 1989 In the heart after a 16-year hiatus. ecological 1966 NYZS of Brazil’s flooded 1948 The Conservation survey of biologist Thomas 1985 NYZS builds forest, NYZS Foundation is founded elephants in Struhsaker 1970 Recording of the Wildlife Health launches the to handle NYZS’s ever- Tanzania’s begins study humpback whale Center, one of Mamirauá Lake expanding conservation Lake Manyara of a primate communications the first modern Ecological Station, program. The foundation National Park. & 1941 With its & 1987 NYZS later fledges as a community within by NYZS biologists zoo hospitals, at which becomes African Plains the Kibale Forest, Roger and Katie Bronx Zoo. design department Brazil’s first free-standing entity. 1967 Dian exhibit, Bronx fostering an Payne generates (EGAD) works Sustainable Fossey continues Zoo begins association wave of public 1985 The Bronx with Kenya Wildlife Development George Schaller’s grouping animals 1946 NYZS establishes the 1956 NYZS supports biologist 1960 Bolivia's Laguna with wildlife interest in these 1981 The Bronx Zoo's JungleWorld Service on plans Reserve. work on mountain by continents Jackson Hole Wildlife Park George Schaller's expedition Colorada Reserve is conservation mammals and & 1972 The World of Zoo becomes opens, becoming for what will gorillas with or ecosystems, to exhibit Rocky Mountain with Olaus and Margaret Murie established pursuant and scholarship contributes to Birds exhibit opens first to perform the first zoological become Nairobi 1989 NYZS initiates NYZS support. rather than fauna. It becomes part to Alaska’s Brooks Range. They to NYZS surveys and in Uganda that the movement to at the Bronx Zoo. embryo transfer exhibit of tropical Safari Walk – the first ever genetic orders of Grand Teton National later urge Congress to create the conservation proposals continues today. ban commercial 1977 Wild Asia opens from gaur to monkeys in a EGAD’s first global zoo-based field and families. Park in 1962. Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. for James’s flamingos. whaling. at the Bronx Zoo. domestic cow. naturalistic setting. design project. veterinary program. 1940S 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1952 NYZS supports 1958 Through 1965 George 1973 Studies of 1980 George 1984 NYZS 1988 NYZS assumes research by A. Starker efforts by NYZS’s Schaller 1966 NYZS 1972 New York City’s first field ecology and Schaller begins helps create management authority over 1989 NYZS Leopold and Frank Fraser Carleton Ray, the conducts first establishes 1969 WCS work native-born gorilla, Pattycake, animal behavior long-term study world’s first NYC zoos, under contract elephant research Darling on wildlife conditions world’s first land ecological and Institute of in Argentina is delivered at what will help design the of giant panda in jaguar reserve, to Department of Parks and and advocacy in Alaska, focusing on forest and sea park behavioral study Research in between become NYZS’s Central Park management for China’s Wolong in Belize’s Recreation. Central Park Zoo contributes to an destruction, overgrazing, is established of Serengeti Animal Behavior 1960-1969 Zoo. She is the first of many Kenya's Amboseli Natural Reserve.

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