Favorite animal photos from the Wildlife Conservation Society This is a lioness in Sena Oura National Park. A team of conservationists from the Government of Chad and the Wildlife Conservation Society released in 2023 a stunning image taken by a remote camera of a healthy female lion from Sena Oura National Park in Chad, where the big cats haven’t been seen in nearly two decades. (PN Sena Oura, Chad MEPDD/WCS)
Favorite animal photos from the Wildlife Conservation Society Snow monkeys at the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Central Park Zoo (Julie Larsen/WCS)
Favorite animal photos from the Wildlife Conservation Society This great adjutant lives in Cambodia’s Bakan Protected Landscape. Wildlife Conservation Society Cambodia, in cooperation with the Ministry of Environment and the Pursat Provincial Administration and Department of Environment, announced in 2023 the official designation of the Bakan grassland as a national protected area officially called the Bakan Protected Landscape. (Sum Phearun WCS Cambodia)
Favorite animal photos from the Wildlife Conservation Society These scarlet macaw are found in Moskitia. The Honduran government unveiled in 2023 a transformative initiative to rescue and conserve the country’s largest forest, the Moskitia, which is one of Mesoamerica’s Five Great Forests and Central America’s second largest rainforest. (WCS Mesoamerica)
Favorite animal photos from the Wildlife Conservation Society The IUCN Red List status assessment of Saiga antelope was changed in 2023 from Critically Endangered to Near Threatened, thanks to effective national and international conservation efforts. (Andrey Ginlev/WCS)
Favorite animal photos from the Wildlife Conservation Society It’s clear that whales have become regular “New Yorkers” as evidenced by images taken in 2023 by scientists with the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Ocean Giants Program, showing a humpback whale within sight of the New York City skyline. (Sarah Trabue/WCS)
Favorite animal photos from the Wildlife Conservation Society Wildlife Conservation Society research in 2023 revealed that harbor porpoises, a small, shy porpoise species lives year-round in the New York-New Jersey Harbor Estuary, the largest and busiest port on the U.S. East Coast. (Ari S. Friedlaende/WCS)
Favorite animal photos from the Wildlife Conservation Society Here is a forest elephant, in Djeke Triangle
The “Djéké Triangle,”an unlogged forest, became a part of Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park in Republic of Congo in 2023. (Scott Ramsay www.scottramsay.afr/S. Ramsay/WCS)
Favorite animal photos from the Wildlife Conservation Society The Wildlife Conservation Society released an image in 2023 of scientists taking a swab from a straw-colored fruit bat to test it for zoonotic diseases such as the Ebola virus. Credit: Clement Kolopp/WCS (Clement Kolopp/WCS)
Favorite animal photos from the Wildlife Conservation Society Here, a Buddhist monk assists with the release of a Royal Turtle.
The Wildlife Conservation Society, in collaboration with Mandai Nature and the Fisheries Administration (FiA) of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries (MAFF), released in 2023 20 critically endangered Royal Turtles into the Sre Ambel River system in Koh Kong Province's Sre Ambel district.
Credit: WCS (WCS)
Favorite animal photos from the Wildlife Conservation Society This is a blacktip reef shark at the New York Aquarium. A new study in 2023, featuring more than 150 researchers worldwide, including Wildlife Conservation Society scientists who collected data at WCS programs in Mesoamerica, South East Asia, Melanesia and East Africa, said that overfishing is driving reef sharks toward extinction.
CREDIT: Julie Larsen Maher/WCS
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