At the Wildlife Conservation Society's Bronx Zoo on Oct. 5, 2026, 20 American chestnut trees resistant to a fungus that wiped out 4 billion of these trees in the early 1900's were planted in three ...
An Arabian Sea humpback whale breaches following interaction with another whale. Both whales had just been recorded singing ...
More than 120 years after a forester at the Wildlife Conservation Society's Bronx Zoo first documented the chestnut blight that would ultimately wipe out nearly 4 billion American chestnut trees, ...
New York, NY (April 2, 2026) – A new study by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the University of Queensland published in Ocean & Coastal Management has found that nearly three out of four ...
BRONX, N.Y. — May 26, 2026 — The Wildlife Conservation Society’s Bronx Zoo welcomed an Endangered Przewalski's foal on April 21. The foal can now be seen among its herd at the zoo’s Wild Asia Monorail ...
CAMPO GRANDE, BRAZIL, March 29, 2026—Governments meeting at the 15th Conference of the Parties (CoP15) to the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS) have adopted a ...
New York, May 27, 2026 — Happy, a 55-year-old Asian elephant at the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Bronx Zoo, has been euthanized after a period of hospice care during which veterinary and animal ...
NEW YORK, Sept. 23, 2026 — Dr. Carlos Afonso Nobre, one of the world’s leading scientists on the Amazon and its relationship to the global climate, has been awarded the 2026 Thomas E. Lovejoy Prize in ...
Bronx, NY, January 27, 2026 — Research led by scientists at the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and funded by NASA has been released, demonstrating a new method for combining field data, satellite ...
BRONX, N.Y. — August 17, 2026 — The Bronx Zoo's Holiday Lights festival will premiere its most expansive offering yet on November 21, now featuring access to select animal exhibits. An enhanced ...
Bronx, NY, February 20, 2026— Across the Amazon Basin, the rapid expansion of illegal and artisanal gold mining is contaminating rivers, wildlife, and Indigenous communities with mercury—a toxic heavy ...
[Above photo: At the Wildlife Conservation Society's Bronx Zoo on Oct. 5, 2026, 20 American chestnut trees resistant to a fungus that wiped out 4 billion of these trees in the early 1900's were ...