This piece comes to us from Charles Emogor, who worked with the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) Nigeria as part of the Conservation Leadership Program before moving on to get his PhD, for which he is continuing his pangolin research in Nigeria. Even before the COVID-19 ...
Wildlife filmmaker Julian Victor hails from the urban jungle of Toronto, Canada. He joined the Black AF in STEM community last year, and participated in the first ever Black Birders Week. As #BlackBirdersWeek began trending on social media, Victor said that seeing the movement go ...
Last week, Black researchers and avian enthusiasts flocked to social media to participate in the first ever Black Birders Week (May 31-June 5). “Growing up, there weren’t many outlets showing diversity, so I was only able to be inspired by white conservationists and naturalists,” said ...
This piece comes to us from Dr. Alain Ondzie, who leads the Wildlife Health Program for Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) Congo. The current COVID-19 outbreak reminds us that zoonotic viruses can lead to the loss of many human lives and can bring populations of already ...
Northern white rhinos are in trouble, even when we are not in the midst of a global pandemic. Nobody knows this more intimately than National Geographic photographer and author Ami Vitale, who has been photographing the sub-species since 2009. Vitale’s photo of Sudan, the last ...
This piece comes to us from Colin Poole, a Regional Director for WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society) based in Phnom Penh, where he manages a portfolio of programs that include China. This week, we are reopening the WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society) office in Guangzhou, China, and—after ...
Social-distancing protocols, work-from-home mandates, and widespread travel restrictions have left the majority of us confined to our homes—and craving a connection to the natural world. Despite the collective global anxiety surrounding Covid-19, spring has arrived in the Northern Hemisphere. It is one of nature’s greatest ...
This piece, which explores the assault on nature that has contributed to the spillover of the coronavirus responsible for COVID-19, was prepared by Wildlife Conservation Society's Senior Conservation Ecologist and Fellow with the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, New York ...
Monique Sosnowski is a wildlife criminologist who specializes in global wildlife conservation and wildlife crime, with particular interests in trade, poaching, and security. Her field research has taken her to Namibia, Botswana and South Africa. It was while working on projects in the field that ...
