About Wildlife Conservation Society

Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) saves wildlife and wild lands by understanding and resolving critical problems that threaten key species and large, wild ecosystems around the world. WCS has worked to safeguard Africas great wildlife and wild places for the long-term benefit of the people of Africa, and the world, since 1920. Today, WCSs Africa program is the largest and most effective field conservation program on the continent, active in 20 countries. Beyond the sheer size of its Africa Program, WCS is proud of its commitment to work in the field regardless of hardship, to base conservation action on firm scientific understanding, to partner with local people, national governments, and other NGOs, and to find and implement solutions to Africas greatest conservation challenges.Above all, WCS achieves successful, sustainable conservation through the extraordinary commitment of people our donors around the world and our conservationists and scientists in Africa and New York.

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