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LIVING INSTITUTIONS 16

WCS’s engaging wildlife collections in five parks enable millions of guests each year to appreciate the wonderful layers of life in the natural world.

LIVING CLASSROOMS 30

WCS has a proud history of instructing generations of schoolchildren, teachers, and families through on-site and distance-learning programs.

LIVING LANDSCAPES 40

WCS staff are involved on the ground in the most remote and difficult places around the globe, working with strategic partners and local people.

Chairman Emeritus’s Letter 4

Chair’s Letter 6

President’s Letter 8

Trustees and Advisors 10

Wildlife Conservation Projects 48

Public Affairs 58

Financial Report 64

WCS Events 68

Contributors 76

Committees 88

WCS Staff 90

WCS Publications 98

Facts, Awards, Credits 100

Cover: This year marked “The Great Return”

of our sea lions to their refurbished pool and

the restoration of Astor Court (right), which

sits at the heart of the Wildlife Conservation

Societyʼs world famous Bronx Zoo.



DAVID T. SCHIFF, CHAIRMAN EMERITUS

Having been invited to write this letter from my new vantage

as Chairman Emeritus, I find that what first comes to mind

is my firm belief in Joseph Schumpeter’s thesis of “creative

destruction.” To paraphrase the Austrian economist, every

person, family, organization, or nation must renew itself

periodically. >e benefits of renewal are enormous, and not

doing so can quickly lead to disaster, or at the very least,

impotence.

During the past 11 years of my tenure, WCS can proudly

count many real and meaningful accomplishments. At the

same time, much remains to be done.

In 1996, our Global Conservation Program budget was $8

million, the Bronx Zoo’s Astor Court needed revitalization,

our gorillas, tigers, and wild dogs had yet to inhabit their

new homes, the euro was six years away, gasoline cost about

$1.26 per gallon, and global climate change was a matter of

international scientific cooperation, not public affairs. In the

intervening years, about 1.4 billion people have been added

to our global burden; human consumption of water, energy,

and food has skyrocketed; and carbon dioxide and methane

emissions have risen to their highest levels in recorded human

history. Wildlife is still imperiled worldwide, as are many

ecosystems of the greatest importance.

>ese facts of life temper our pride in the fact that WCS

has grown exponentially, and we now spend $60 million per

year around the world in the service of conservation. Our New

York City facilities educate and entertain four million people

a year, our exhibits address the global vulnerability of wildlife,

and our veterinarians circle the globe to confront zoonotic

diseases, especially those of an airborne, viral nature. We have

recommitted to historic preservation at our Bronx Zoo and

New York Aquarium and to the enhancement of City facilities

in our Parks Renaissance campaign. >ough we have much

more to do, we have much to show for our efforts.

During the 42 years in which I have been privileged to serve

as a WCS Trustee, the competence and accomplishments of the

organization have constantly grown. We occupy a leadership

position in linking the global needs of flora, fauna, and

humans. Our mission is a vital one, and its imperatives never

cease. I look with optimism toward the next chapter in the

life of this unique and extraordinary organization, now in the

capable hands of its new Chair, Ward W. Woods.



I write this inaugural letter as Chair of the WCS Board of

Trustees while steaming up the tributaries of the Amazon to-

ward Peru’s Pacaya-Samiria Communal Reserve. >is reserve

encompasses five million acres of irreplaceable forest in which

WCS plays a central conservation role working with the Peru-

vian government and local communities.

>e first impression is the landscape, or should I say river-

scape? >e expanses of forest, fisheries, and swamps have been

affected by Amerindian presence, European invasion, com-

modity booms, and resource extraction. >en it was unsus-

tainable wildlife hunting and high-grading (a form of selective

logging that targets commercially valuable species) of upland

forests—ravages that followed those of the rubber boom.

Somehow, the region survived with much of its natural glory

intact. Today, it is the threat of global climate change that wor-

ries conservationists. Some experts estimate that 30 percent of

this forest landscape could be lost to climate changes during

this century.

Repeated assaults on areas of such importance to biodiver-

sity remind us all of our need to develop tools—including the

capture of the forest’s asset value in the market through carbon

sequestration—in order to create long-term financing for

landscape conservation. We must incorporate communities in

conservation planning and benefits, from Cocama-Cocamilla

villages to the municipalities that depend on natural resource

use, to build consensus-based conservation and demonstrate

the viability of large-scale conservation within the Human

Footprint. Ultimately, we have to confront the global changes

taking place that affect wildlife and wild lands into the future.

>ese challenges are not identical to those of business, but

there are many parallels. Whether operating for profit or not,

we must offer the world products that make sense for our col-

lective future, and we must know what we are getting in return

for our investment. In the case of wildlife conservation, the re-

turn is not to any single individual but to the Earth itself.

WCS is in the business of creating collective goods for

future generations of people and wild animals. Intelligence,

common sense, innovation, and perseverance—all attributes

of good business—are required by conservation, too. On

the Amazon, on the Congo, or in the Arctic, we must match

knowledge with effective action and working solutions in or-

der to succeed in this most important mission.

WARD W. WOODS, CHAIR OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES


In addition, WCS is tremendously grateful for the generosity

and commitment of its friends who have each made contribu-

tions totaling one million dollars or more this year:

■ Darlene and Brian Heidtke, for their ongoing commitment

to our work in wildlife health, in particular our Field Veteri-

nary Program and the operations of our Global Center for

Wildlife Health and WCS-Marine Conservation.

■ >e Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, for its ongoing

commitment to a grant program that supports state wildlife

action plans in North America.

■ Goldman Sachs Charitable Fund, for its continuing partner-

ship with our Karukinka and Beyond program, which

funds our vital conservation efforts on the island of Tierra

del Fuego.

■ Jonathan L. Cohen, for a generous gift to name the Nile

crocodile pool in Madagascar! and a fund to care for these ex-

traordinary animals.

■ >e David and Lucile Packard Foundation, for support of

WCS’s work in Fiji and the western Pacific region, among

other programs.

■ >e Jay Pritzker Foundation, for its generous multi-year

grant to fund new conservation activities in exceptionally

threatened areas of Tanzania.

■ >e Schiff Family, for its magnificent support of a new en-

dowment for curatorial science activities.

■ Ward W. and Priscilla B. Woods, for their extraordinarily en-

lightened support of WCS’s programs and activities, includ-

ing the WCS Institute’s State of the Wild series.

>is year, we welcome the Blue Moon Fund, Conservation

International-Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund, the Jay

Pritzker Foundation, the Shell Exploration & Production

Company, and the estates of Jack R. Howard and Mary Daly

Wolfson to our circle of Best Friends—those whose cumulative

philanthropy to WCS meets or exceeds one million dollars.

>e Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) extends its deep ap-

preciation for the new leadership gifts and pledges to our GATE-

WAYS TO CONSERVATION campaign received this year. >e

outstanding support of our programs, activities, and operations

from those listed here is critical to ensuring that WCS continues

to strive for and achieve the highest standards in all its work.

WCS is enormously grateful to Robert W. Wilson for his

magnificent and sustained support of our global conservation

programs, with matching grant funds that this year totaled nearly

$15 million. >rough this remarkably generous and enlightened

challenge grant, he has had a profound and lasting impact on the

future of wildlife and WCS’s efforts to secure new support for its

conservation work around the globe.

WCS thanks the Starr Foundation for its tremendously gener-

ous additional support for the construction of the C.V. Starr Sci-

ence Campus at the Bronx Zoo. >e Starr Campus will be home

to two vitally important new core facilities that will significantly

enhance our global conservation and wildlife health programs: the

José E. Serrano Center for Global Conservation and the Global

Center for Wildlife Health.

WCS extends a heartfelt thank you to Allison and Leonard

Stern, who provided an extraordinarily generous gift to support

the construction of a magnificent new snow leopard exhibit at the

Central Park Zoo. >e Allison Maher Stern Snow Leopard ex-

hibit is scheduled to open in Spring 2009.

>e Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation continued its long-

standing commitment to WCS-Latin America and Caribbean by

providing a major new grant for our work in the Amazon Basin.

We thank Donna and Fred Nives for their generous planned

gift to name the Donna and Fred Nives African Wild Dogs ex-

hibit at the Bronx Zoo.


STEVEN E. SANDERSON, PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

I write this year from the western Amazon, as part of a small

group visiting WCS programs in the riverine forests of north-

eastern Peru. Much of Loreto, Peru’s largest province, is price-

less to conservation. >e land’s deep history of indigenous

presence, colonial expeditions, nineteenth-century naturalists,

and rubber barons of the Victorian era make it a perfect setting

for reflection on the past and future of wildlife and the special

value WCS has to offer global conservation.

In a famous speech in 1942, Brazilian President Getúlio

Vargas proposed to conquer the Amazon. Sixty-five years later,

our quest is to protect it from conquest. >e newest challenge

is climate change and determining what conservation can do to

mitigate and adapt to an uncertain future. >e region that has

survived so many challenges for so long now confronts global

transformation.

>is transformation is not exclusive to Peru or to the Ama-

zon, of course. Half a world away, the rainforest of northeastern

Madagascar is under similar pressure, as are the equatorial re-

doubts of the great apes of Africa and the last habitat of orang-

utans in Malaysian Sarawak and Indonesian Kalimantan.

>e conservation challenges of the future include capturing

the asset worth of forests and their creatures, through market

mechanisms, to create long-term financing for wildlife conser-

vation. >at financial capacity is the only way to address the

issues of climate mitigation and adaptation.

At WCS, we also are concerned with wildlife health in the

field and in our New York City parks, as the spread of infec-

tious diseases is a companion of global ecological and climate

changes. In Peru, we add building human capacity to our

agenda, through a long-term commitment to train the field

biologists and conservationists who will solve the Amazonian

problems of the future. We also have promising exchanges with

zoological institutions in the western Amazon, which help our

colleagues on-site communicate the importance of wildlife to

local communities. All of these activities are predicated upon

a long-standing collaboration with local and national govern-

ments, non-governmental partners, indigenous communities,

and the Durrell Institute of Conservation Ecology.

Anyone who doubts the importance of these mandates or

the imminence of the threats should come to northeastern

Peru. It is a spectacularly beautiful place, still rich in wild nature

and human history.


In addition to those named on page 7, WCS offers special

thanks to those who generously supported WCS and its ac-

tivities this year with new gifts and pledges.

WCS is enormously grateful to those who have provided sig-

nificant unrestricted support, enabling us to utilize the funds

where they are most needed. We extend our deep apprecia-

tion to Katharina Otto-Bernstein, William E. Flaherty, >e

Irwin Family, >e Howard Phipps Foundation, Josie and

Julian Robertson, and one anonymous donor. In addition,

we thank the estates of Norma E. Cossey, Eleanor T. Elliott,

Henry Clay Frick II, Everett S. Steinmetz, Martha Daly

Wolfson, and Ken Wollenberg for their generosity.

We also extend our gratitude to those who provided fund-

ing for our zoos and aquarium in New York, as well as our glob-

al conservation programs around the world. Sincere thanks go

to Elyssa Kellerman and >e New York Community Trust.

Our global conservation field programs, as well as our New

York City-based cross-cutting programs, benefited greatly this

year from a number of generous donors.

We recognize the Liz Claiborne/Art Ortenberg Foundation

for its significant ongoing commitment to our conservation

work around the world. Additional generous support for our

global conservation programs was provided by: the Blue Moon

Fund, Harvey and Heidi Bookman, BP International, Butler

Conservation Fund, C. Diane Christensen, Earth Share/Envi-

ronmental Federation of America, Melinda B. Frost, Mr. and

Mrs. Robert G. Goelet, the John D. and Catherine T. MacAr-

thur Foundation, Edith McBean, Mr. and Mrs. George K. Moss,

National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, National Geographic

Society, Katherine T. Ruttenberg/>e Ruttenberg Family, Walter

and Jeanne Sedgwick, and one anonymous donor.

Our conservation work in Africa received support from Mr.

and Mrs. Jeffrey R. Anderson, Laurie F. Michaels and David

Bonderman, >e Howard G. Buffett Foundation, Lucy C. Dan-

ziger, and Zoo Zürich.

>e Homeland Foundation, Inc./E. Lisk Wyckoff, Jr. con-

tributed vital funding for our work in Asia, and support for our

Latin America and Caribbean Program was provided by Judith

Hamilton.

Our Marine Program was once again generously funded by

Roger and Vicki Sant/>e Summit Foundation and >e Tiffany

& Co. Foundation.

Significant support for our North America Program was pro-

vided by the Wendy P. McCaw Foundation, the Shell Explora-

tion & Production Company, and Wilburforce Foundation.

WCS is grateful to the donors who have so generously sup-

ported the zoos and aquarium this year, enabling them to

maintain and enhance the health and well-being of our living

collections, build state-of-the-art exhibits, and educate the

public about the importance of wildlife conservation. We

thank the following contributors for providing vital funds for

our Living Institutions: Sarah K. de Coizart Article TENTH

Perpetual Charitable Trust, and Mr. and Mrs. Darryl Mallah.

Our programs in Wildlife Health, including our field vet-

erinary work, received generous funding from Francis Goelet

Charitable Trust, Caroline N. Sidnam, Dr. Judith P. Sulzberger,

and Pamela M. >ye.

WCS offers its appreciation to those donors who supported

our Education Program this year, including the Richard and

Rhoda Goldman Fund, >e New York Community Trust-

Nancy G. and C. Richard MacGrath Fund,

and the Estate of Marie E. Markus.


*deceased +non-Trustee member

(as of October 31, 2007)

OFFICERSWard W. Woods Chair of the Board

David T. Schiff Chairman Emeritus

Edith McBean Vice Chair

Mrs. Gordon B. Pattee Vice Chair

Mrs. Leonard N. Stern Vice Chair

John N. Irwin III Treasurer

Andrew H. Tisch Secretary

W. B. McKeown Deputy Secretary

TRUSTEESFrederick W. BeineckeEleanor BriggsGilbert ButlerC. Diane ChristensenJ. Michael ClineGlenn CloseJonathan L. CohenKatherine L. DolanWilliam E. FlahertyBradley L. GoldbergPaul A. GouldJonathan D. GreenJudith HamiltonBrian J. HeidtkeJohn B. HessJohn N. Irwin IIIRobert Wood Johnson IVAnita L. KeefeElyssa KellermanJames M. Large, Jr.Edith McBeanEugene R. McGrathAmbrose K. MonellMrs. George K. MossRalph da Costa NuñezKatharina Otto-BernsteinMrs. Gordon B. PatteeH. Merritt Paulson IIIHoward Phipps, Jr.Julian H. Robertson, Jr.David T. SchiffMrs. Warren L. SchwerinWalter C. SedgwickCaroline N. SidnamMichael H. SteinhardtMrs. Leonard N. SternDaniel K. >orneAndrew H. TischMrs. >omas I. UnterbergWard W. WoodsBarbara Hrbek Zucker

EX-OFFICIO TRUSTEESHon. Michael R. Bloomberg Mayor, City of New York

William C. >ompson, Jr. Comptroller, City of New York

Christine Quinn Speaker, New York City Council

Adrian Benepe Commissioner, Department of Parks & Recreation, City of New York

Kate D. Levin Commissioner, Department of Cultural Affairs, City of New York

Adolfo Carrión, Jr. President, Borough of >e Bronx

Marty Markowitz President, Borough of BrooklynSteven E. Sanderson President and CEO, Wildlife Conservation Society

LIFE TRUSTEESMrs. Vincent Astor*Mrs. Edgar M. CullmanRobert G. GoeletMrs. Richard B. Tweedy

HONORARY TRUSTEESRoscoe C. Brown, Jr.Mrs. Charles A. Dana, Jr.C. Sims FarrWilliam GruenerwaldJohn R. Hearst, Jr.Hon. Anthony D. MarshallFrederick A. MelhadoGuy G. RutherfurdDr. Judith P. SulzbergerSue Van de BovenkampRichard A. VoellE. Lisk Wyckoff, Jr.

AUDIT COMMITTEEBrian J. Heidtke, ChairBradley L. GoldbergJonathan D. GreenAmbrose K. Monell

COMMITTEE ON TRUSTEESEugene R. McGrath, ChairJonathan L. CohenJohn N. Irwin IIIWalter C. SedgwickMrs. Leonard N. SternSteven E. Sanderson, ex officioWard W. Woods, ex officio

DEVELOPMENT AND EXTERNAL RELATIONS COMMITTEEMrs. Gordon B. Pattee, ChairJ. Michael ClineGlenn CloseJudith HamiltonJohn B. HessAnita L. KeefeEdith McBeanKatharina Otto-BernsteinH. Merritt Paulson III

Mrs. Leonard N. SternAndrew H. TischMrs. >omas I. UnterbergSteven E. Sanderson, ex officioWard W. Woods, ex officio

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEEWard W. Woods, ChairFrederick W. BeineckeC. Diane ChristensenBrian J. HeidtkeMrs. George K. MossJohn N. Irwin III, ex officioEdith McBean, ex officioEugene R. McGrath, ex officioMrs. Gordon B. Pattee, ex officioSteven E. Sanderson, ex officioMrs. Leonard N. Stern, ex officioAndrew H. Tisch, ex officio

FINANCE COMMITTEEJohn N. Irwin III, ChairWilliam E. FlahertyBradley L. GoldbergMrs. George K. MossJonathan D. Green, ex officioPaul A. Gould, ex officioSteven E. Sanderson, ex officioWard W. Woods, ex officio

BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS SUBCOMMITTEEJonathan D. Green, ChairJames M. Large, Jr.Ralph da Costa NuñezCaroline N. SidnamSteven E. Sanderson, ex officioWard W. Woods, ex officio

INVESTMENT SUBCOMMITTEEPaul A. Gould, ChairGilbert ButlerJ. Michael ClineBradley L. GoldbergJulian H. Robertson, Jr.George W. Siguler+Michael H. SteinhardtJohn N. Irwin III, ex officioSteven E. Sanderson, ex officioWard W. Woods, ex officio

HUMAN RESOURCES AND COMPENSATION COMMITTEEJonathan L. Cohen, ChairJohn N. Irwin IIIDavid T. SchiffAndrew H. TischSteven E. Sanderson, ex officioWard W. Woods, ex officio

PROGRAM COMMITTEEEdith McBean, ChairJohn N. Irwin III


David T. SchiffC. Diane Christensen, ex officioJ. Michael Cline, ex officioBrian J. Heidtke, ex officioAnita L. Keefe, ex officioSteven E. Sanderson, ex officioCaroline N. Sidnam, ex officioWard W. Woods, ex officioBarbara Hrbek Zucker, ex officio

GLOBAL CONSERVATION SUBCOMMITTEEC. Diane Christensen, Co-ChairJ. Michael Cline, Co-ChairFrederick W. BeineckeEleanor BriggsGilbert ButlerGlenn CloseJudith HamiltonElyssa KellermanAmbrose K. MonellMrs. George K. MossH. Merritt Paulson IIIWalter C. SedgwickMrs. >omas I. UnterbergSteven E. Sanderson, ex officioWard W. Woods, ex officio

LIVING INSTITUTIONS AND EDUCATION SUBCOMMITTEEAnita L. Keefe, Co-ChairBarbara Hrbek Zucker, Co-ChairKatherine L. DolanWilliam E. FlahertyBrian J. HeidtkeRobert Wood Johnson IVRalph da Costa NuñezHoward Phipps, Jr.Mrs. Warren L. SchwerinDaniel K. >orneSteven E. Sanderson, ex officioWard W. Woods, ex officio

WILDLIFE HEALTH SUBCOMMITTEEBrian J. Heidtke, Co-ChairCaroline N. Sidman, Co-ChairPaul A. GouldAnita L. KeefeElyssa KellermanAmbrose K. MonellMrs. Warren L. SchwerinPamela >ye+Barbara Hrbek ZuckerSteven E. Sanderson, ex officioWard W. Woods, ex officio

WCS is grateful to the City of New York, which provides significant operating and capital funds through the Department of Cultural Affairs and the Department of Parks and Recreation. We thank Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn, Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrión Jr., Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, Queens Borough President Helen Marshall, Councilmember Joel Rivera, Major-ity Leader, Councilmember Domenic M. Rec-chia, Jr., Chair, Cultural Affairs, Libraries & International Intergroup Relations Committee, and the entire New York City Council for their support of capital projects. The elected of-ficials of the City of New York are vital to the public/private partnership on which WCS’s service to the people of New York rests.

>e $650 million GATEWAYS TO CONSERVATION campaign is helping fund

key improvements at the Bronx Zoo and other WCS facilities and changing the face

of our global conservation work. GATEWAYS TO CONSERVATION is WCS’s

largest and most comprehensive fundraising endeavor to date. >rough the course

of this campaign, WCS will evolve from an institution with a great history into

one with a greater future. >e GATEWAYS TO CONSERVATION campaign

will build upon our long and distinguished history of achievement and further

enhance scientific discovery, animal well-being, and the conservation of the wild.

Ward W. WoodsCHAIR

Edith McBeanJulian H. Robertson, Jr.

David T. SchiffRobert W. Wilson

CO-CHAIRS

Steven E. Sanderson PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

Maria Masciotti SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT FOR DEVELOPMENT

Robert W. Wilson>e Goldman Sachs Charitable FundWard W. and Priscilla B. Woods

>e Starr FoundationDavid T. and Lisa SchiffC. Diane Christensen

>e Honorable José E. SerranoEdith McBean

Josie and Julian RobertsonGordon and Betty Moore Foundation

Allison and Leonard SternJ. Michael and Pamela Cline

>omas S. Kaplan/Panthera CorporationLiz Claiborne/Art Ortenberg Foundation>e Doris Duke Charitable Foundation

John and Jeanet IrwinMary and Howard Phipps, Jr.

>e Tisch Family

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation>e Jay Pritzker Foundation

Joan O.L. TweedyDonald and Barbara ZuckerDonna and Fred Nives

Brian and Darlene HeidtkeEleanor Briggs

Bristol-Myers Squibb CompanyJonathan L. Cohen

Edgar and Louise CullmanBradley L. GoldbergAmbrose Monell

David and Lucile Packard Foundation>e Ruttenberg Family

Virginia and Warren SchwerinCaroline N. SidnamPamela M. >ye

WCS is proud to recognize the following lead donors for their outstanding commitment to the future of conservation.


WCS and the Cornell University College of Veterinary

Medicine announced a unique collaboration to maxi-

mize their complementary expertise to ensure the health

of wildlife, domestic animals, and ultimately, human-

kind.

Pictured here: WCS Senior Vice President of Living

Institutions Robert Cook, WCS Chairman of the Board

Emeritus David T. Schiff, and Donald Smith, Austin O.

Hooey Dean of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University

Starr Foundation President Florence Davis and Con-

gressman José E. Serrano helped break ground for the

C.V. Starr Science Campus at the Bronx Zoo and José

E. Serrano Center for Global Conservation.

Pictured here: Sylvia Smith, Partner of FXFowle Ar-

chitects, WCS Chair of the Board Ward W. Woods,

WCS President and CEO Steven E. Sanderson, NYS

Senator José M. Serrano, Congressman José E. Ser-

rano, David Schiff, Sue Chin, and Florence Davis,

President of the Starr Foundation

WCS publicly launched GATEWAYS TO CONSERVA-

TION, a $650 million campaign that has the strength

to transform WCS’s global conservation work, ensure

the health of people and animals, connect people to

conservation, and propel the global mission to secure

the future of wildlife and wild places.

Pictured here: Steve Sanderson, Ward Woods, and

The Honorable Michael R. Bloomberg, Mayor of the

City of New York


WCS experts came together to discuss our

elephant research and conservation efforts in both

Africa and Asia.

Pictured here: WCS Field Conservationist Simon

Hedges, Steve Sanderson, Ward Woods, WCS

Trustee Edith McBean, WCS Field Conservationist

Charles Foley, Bronx Zoo Director James Breheny,

WCS Senior Vice President for Global Conserva-

tion John Robinson, and Robert Cook

On Sunday, May 20, 2007, WCS dedicated the

Donna and Fred Nives African Wild Dogs exhibit

at the Bronx Zoo with many of the Nives’s closest

family and friends. The Nives have been members

of WCS since 2001. Their gift to name the exhibit

exemplifies their lifelong commitment and generos-

ity to wildlife preservation and animal well-being.

The African Wild Dogs exhibit features these

exciting animals in more than half an acre along

the zoo’s African Trail. The site evokes the feeling

of the African forest edge, where the wild dogs

engage in natural behaviors—digging in a large

sand pit and romping in a shallow pool.

Pictured here: Donna and Fred Nives

WCS celebrated the grand reopening of the Bronx

Zoo’s historic Astor Court with more than 200

guests in attendance. The Honorable Michael R.

Bloomberg, Mayor of the City of New York, and

David T. Schiff welcomed back our California sea

lions with the “first official fish feeding.”

Pictured here: Wild Animal Keeper Danielle Hes-

sel, Mayor Bloomberg, and David Schiff


WCS field conservationists Mike Fay and Paul Elkan

discussed encouraging results from their aerial

surveys of Southern Sudan. More than 1.3 million

white-eared kob, tiang (antelope), and mongalla

gazelle are thriving there, despite all odds. An esti-

mated 8,000 elephants, concentrated mainly in the

Sudd, the largest freshwater wetland in Africa, were

also observed. The WCS-led team collaborated with

the Ministry of the Environment, Wildlife Conserva-

tion, and Tourism of the Government of Southern

Sudan (GoSS), and USAID/Sudan. The U.S. Fish

and Wildlife Service provided additional funding.

Pictured here: Paul Elkan and Mike Fay

WCS presented Phase I of the Global Center for

Wildlife Health, which includes the Shirley S.

Katzenbach Clinical Pathology Lab, named by

Coty Sidnam and Pamela Thye in honor of their

mother, and the Ambrose Monell Pathology Lab

and Necropsy Suite.

Pictured here: Steve Sanderson, Ward Woods,

Ambrose Monell, Coty Sidnam, Pamela Thye, David

Schiff, and Bob Cook.

On a beautiful evening at the Bronx Zoo, WCS hon-

ored David T. Schiff for his 11 years of distinguished

service as Chairman of the Board.

Pictured here: Ward Woods, David Schiff, WCS

Trustee Howard Phipps, and Steve Sanderson


>is year, one veteran champion of these goals passed the torch to another.

Richard Lattis, Senior Vice President and General Director, retired from a

career with WCS that spanned more than 30 years. Robert A. Cook, the former

Chief Veterinarian and Vice President of the WHS, succeeded Lattis.

Part of creating new gateways to conservation involves protecting LI’s heritage,

the signature example of which is Astor Court and its Beaux Art buildings—the

historic heart of the Bronx Zoo. On June 1, 2007, Michael R. Bloomberg, Mayor

of New York City, attended the opening of the newly restored Astor Court and

the return of its sea lions. >e great lawn has been revitalized with crisscrossing

pathways for guests, poetry connecting people to conservation, and a bronze

replica of the original New York Zoological Society logo. >e sea lions’ aquatic

habitat was renovated with a state-of-the-art filtration and ozonation system,

which will conserve precious water resources. >e Astor Court opening heralded

completion of the first phase of the Gateways to Conservation campaign.

On Earth Day, a “green” eco-restroom opened near the Bronx Zoo’s Bronx

River Parkway entrance and Mitsubishi Riverwalk. >e new facilities are

outfitted with composting toilets and sinks that drain into a gray-water garden.

Humorous interpretative graphics inform guests about composting technology

and encourage them to take conservation actions in their day-to-day lives.

Living

THE LIVING INSTITUTIONS (LI) division of WCS is comprised

of the Bronx, Central Park, Prospect Park, and Queens Zoos,

New York Aquarium (NYA), Exhibition and Graphic Arts

Department (EGAD), and Wildlife Health Sciences (WHS).

>e division is committed to realizing the vision of One WCS,

continuing to advance WCS’s leadership role in animal well-

being, enhancing the guest experience, and reinvigorating its

scientific foundations as it continues to create powerful new

gateways to conservation that connect people to nature.




Construction continued on the upcoming Madagascar! ex-

hibit. Renovation of the roof and basement level of the Lion

House were completed. >e basement will include animal

holding and care facilities, as well as a keeper workspace. Two

key exhibits were fabricated, each modeled from a unique

Malagasy habitat.

After an October ground breaking ceremony, excavation

and construction began for the José E. Serrano Center for

Global Conservation on the CV Starr Science Campus. Lo-

cated in the northern part of the Zoo, this ”green” office build-

ing will house the Global Conservation division, the WCS

Institute, EGAD designers, part of Information Technology,

and the Library. Anchoring the southern border of the Science

Campus is the newly expanded Global Center for Wildlife

Health. In June 2007, staff, trustees, and donors celebrated the

opening of Phase I, which includes a surgical suite, the Shirley

S. Katzenbach clinical pathology lab, named by Caroline N.

Sidnam and Pamela M. >ye in honor of their mother, and

the Ambrose Monell Pathology Lab and Necropsy Suite. Plans

are underway to begin the Phase II isolation quarantine facil-

ity, with capital funds provided by Mayor Bloomberg and the

Pages 16–17: Robert A. Cook, former Chief

Veterinarian and Vice President of Wildlife Health

Sciences, was named Senior Vice President for WCS

Living Institutions (with walrus Nuka at the New York

Aquarium). Left: Work continued on the Bronx Zooʼs

Madagascar! exhibit. Above: installing a bronze

replica of the original New York Zoological Society

logo on the Zooʼs Astor Court.

In June, Michael R. Bloomberg, Mayor of New York City, attended the opening of the

Bronx Zoo’s newly restored Astor Court and the return of its sea lions. The Astor Court

opening heralded completion of the first phase of the Gateways to Conservation campaign.


New York City Council. Phase II will be located just north of

the health center.

Patrick >omas was promoted from Mammal Curator to

General Curator of the Bronx Zoo. Earlier in the year, >om-

as, WHS Senior Clinical Veterinarian Bonnie Raphael, and

Assistant Director of WCS-Asia Peter Zahler traveled to Paki-

stan at the request of the United States and Pakistani govern-

ments. >eir mission: to transport Leo—an orphaned, then

13-month-old snow leopard cub—to the Bronx Zoo, where

he will remain in the Himalayan Highlands exhibit until a

suitable facility is constructed for him in Pakistan. A ceremony

to complete the transfer took place at the Zoo in September

2006, attended by the first lady of Pakistan Mrs. Sehba Mush-

arraf and officials from the Pakistani Embassy and United

States government.

WCS’s commitment to the conservation of the North

American bison began more than 100 years ago with the

founding of the American Bison Society at the Bronx Zoo.

>is year, the Bronx Zoo Mammal Department and the Wild-

life Health Department of Clinical Care collected and tested

hair and serum samples from the Zoo’s bison to assess the

herd’s genetic purity. Results showed that unlike the majority

of North American bison, this herd has little evidence of cattle

genes. >e bison herd will be taken off oral contraceptives in

the hope that a reintroduction of purebred calves to areas of

the West where bison once ranged may be possible in 2008.

Among notable births were two Asian one-horned rhinoc-

eros calves. A female born on November 16 and a male born on

January 5 bring the total number of rhino calves born at Wild

Asia since 1986 to nine—one of the world’s most successful

captive-breeding programs for Asian one-horned rhinos.

>e proverbial stork visited the Ornithology Department

as well, with the hatching of the world’s first maleo chick out-

side this endangered species’ native Indonesia (see “Saving Big

Birds,” page 23). >e department is also the first in any North

American zoo to successfully breed lesser adjutant storks. >is

year, the oldest chick, a male, attained breeding plumage and

began courting and nest-building with the collection’s lone

adult female. >is represents an important pairing, as the two

birds are the sole captive representatives of unrelated blood-

lines. To increase and share the department’s expertise on lesser

adjutants, Senior Keeper Yvetta Pokorny traveled to Cambo-

dia. Her trip, funded by a One WCS grant, involved exchang-

ing information with WCS field colleagues on the birds’

breeding and nesting behaviors in both captive and wild set-

tings. Pokorny, along with local rangers, created a Cambodian-

language guide to help rangers recognize various adjutant age

groups and determine recruitment rates into the population.

Jennifer Pramuk joined the Bronx Zoo as Herpetology

A ceremony to complete the

transfer of Leo the snow leopard

took place at the Bronx Zoo in

September 2006, attended by the

first lady of Pakistan and officials

from the Pakistani Embassy and the

United States government.

WCS staff from Living Institutions and Global Conser-

vation traveled to Pakistan to transport Leo (right), an

orphaned snow leopard, to the Bronx Zoo. Leo now

roams the Zooʼs Himalayan Highlands exhibit and will

remain an ambassador to New York until a suitable

habitat is developed for him in his home country.



Curator in October 2006. With her background and expertise

in anurans, she will lead LI’s efforts to address the worldwide

amphibian crisis. Nearly half of the world’s 6,000 species of

amphibians are endangered, including the Kihansi spray toad,

which is now extinct in the wild. Along with WHS Chief Pa-

thologist Dee McAloose and Bronx Zoo Wild Animal Keeper

Alyssa Borek, Pramuk attended a Population and Habitat Vi-

ability Assessment workshop in Tanzania. >ey collaborated

with colleagues from other organizations to develop a long-

range strategy to reintroduce the toad to the Kihansi Gorge,

its only known native habitat. >e Bronx Zoo maintains one

of only two captive populations and breeding programs for

Kihansi spray toads.

As part of the WCS commitment to ensure a future for en-

dangered amphibians, Central Park Zoo has established an As-

sociation of Zoos and Aquariums’ (AZA) Species Survival Plan

(SSP) for the highly endangered Puerto Rican crested toad.

>is year, WCS staff released more than 500 tadpoles hatched

at Central Park into their native environment.

Craig Gibbs joined the Bronx Zoo as Curatorial Science

Fellow for Special Animal Exhibits. Gibbs is completing his

dissertation on tropical ecology and entomology. WCS’s

unique Curatorial Science Fellow program offers doctoral and

post-doctoral candidates the opportunity to receive profes-

sional instruction in animal husbandry, gain hands-on experi-

As part of the Andean Bear Species Survival Program

of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, Spangles

(below, on the left) was transferred on breeding loan

from Houston Zoo to the Queens Zoo, where she

joined resident male, Cisco (on the right). There are

only 70 Andean, or spectacled, bears in U.S. zoos.


Endangered birds native to Sulawesi, Indonesia, maleos use solar or geothermal heat to incubate their young. These large birds, called megapodes, live in lowland and hill rainforests, but their communal nesting sites are located on sandy beaches and riverbanks. In the wild, a female maleo digs a deep pit, lays and covers up its large single egg, and departs. Two months later, when the fully-feathered chick hatches, it is already able to fly.

The Bronx Zoo is the only institution outside Indonesia to have maleos in its collection. To recreate the birds’ unique nesting grounds, the Ornithol-ogy Department used information gathered on Sulawesi by WCS Global Conservation colleagues at wild pits and hatcheries. They determined the proper mix of sand and soil for digging and the correct relative humidity and temperature. The ornithology staff also adjusted the adult diet and other factors. In November 2006, the first North American maleo hatched. This chick offered Zoo and field staff a rare opportunity to observe the early stages of maleo development.

In June 2007, Assistant Supervisor Mary Iorizzo joined WCS-Sulawesi Program Supervisor John Tasirins, Maleo Program Coordinator Iwan Hunowu, and other WCS Global Conservation field staff to study maleo nesting sites and coordinate research plans. Iorizzo also fulfilled a WCS Living Institutions SSF grant to document temperature and humidity profiles within and between nesting grounds of wild maleos, in order to improve incubation and hatching at the Bronx Zoo. Early results indicate that the most successful hatchery has the warmest temperatures (around 94 degrees Fahrenheit) and 100 percent relative humidity. Under optimal conditions, chicks hatch in a shorter time and with less lethargy. The Ornithology Department is already planning for the next egg-laying season.



ence, and develop practical administrative skills, while further-

ing their research projects.

To improve efficiency, the Bronx Zoo restructured the Op-

erations Department by dividing it into Construction, which

handles capital projects across WCS, and Operations, which

is responsible for Zoo operations and the shops. John Duke

came on board as Assistant Director of Operations.

In time for the fiftieth anniversary celebration of opening

at its Coney Island location, the New York Aquarium up-

graded public spaces, enhanced exhibits, and improved infor-

mation for its guests. As part of the spruce up, new paint was

applied to 18,000 square feet of surface, 3,600 animals were

acquired for the collection, and more than 200 new graphics

and animal ID labels were created and installed.

Construction of the new Aquatic Animal Health Center is

99 percent complete, and the center is scheduled for a fall 2007

opening. >e building is designed to address the complex and

specialized health and husbandry needs of the aquatic collection.

Curator of Freshwater Fishes Paul Loiselle has dedicated

much of his career to studying and safeguarding Madagascar’s

cichlids. >is year, he was honored with having a new cichlid

species named after him, Ptychochromis loisellei.

Catherine A. McClave, who has worked at the Aquarium

in laboratory and water quality services since 1981, was pro-

moted to Curator of Animal Health and Living Systems.

In July 2006, the Central Park Zoo welcomed its 15 mil-

lionth visitor since it reopened under WCS management in

1988. Recently retired Admissions Manager Tom Lennox,

who greeted the first guest on opening day, was on hand to

welcome the 15 millionth one.

>rough the generosity of the Tisch family, the sculptural

elements in the Tisch Children’s Zoo were painted and refur-

bished, and animal enclosure fencing was reinforced. Horti-

cultural improvements also are being made, intern interpret-

ers were added during the summer months, and the aviary

This year, Central Park Zoo welcomed its 15 millionth

visitor since it reopened under WCS management

in 1988 (left, Senior Keeper Charles Braun and a

silver pheasant). And the Tisch Childrenʼs Zoo, which

opened in 1997, was refurbished. Among the spectacu-

lar birds, visitors can see a black stork (above).


collection continues to grow with the addition of rare crimson

rosella parakeets.

At Prospect Park Zoo, Patricia D. Cole, Animal Curator,

added Assistant Director to her title and scope of responsibili-

ties. When severe April storms caused significant flooding,

Cole and Operations Manager Tom McGrath led a team of

staff and volunteers who remained on site to ensure the safety

of animals, people, and the facility. >e Zoo closed for only

one day, and maintenance crews from the Central Park and

Queens Zoos assisted with the Herculean cleanup.

Scott Silver, Animal Curator of the Queens Zoo, also

added Assistant Director to his title and duties. >e Zoo’s

spectacled bears, Cisco and Spangles, were observed mating. A

female on breeding loan from the Houston Zoo as part of the

SSP, Spangles is being trained to stand still for ultrasound ex-

aminations. >ere are only 70 of these South American bears

in U.S. zoos.

>e LI Animal Enrichment Program (AEP) is a key com-

ponent of WCS’s commitment to the health and well-being

of its collections. AEP not only continues to provide zoo and

aquarium animals with new opportunities to exercise both

mind and body, it also supports staff development and re-

search efforts. A number of grants awarded this year funded

attendance at professional conferences and supported diverse

research projects, such as enrichment activities for the Bronx

Zoo’s Asian elephants and enabling non-restrained venipunc-

ture techniques in pinnipeds at the Aquarium.

A dozen Species Survival Fund (SSF) grants were awarded

Animal enrichment is a key component of WCS’s commitment to the

health and well-being of its zoo and aquarium collections . . . providing

the animals with new opportunities to exercise both mind and body.


Understanding the cause, behavior, and distribution of avian influenza (AI) in the wild is critical to establishing a viable early warning system for the disease. In summer 2006, Field Veterinary Program Director Bill Karesh and Senior Health Policy Analyst Steve Osofsky worked closely with the Wash-ington office of the WCS Public Affairs Division to garner funding for the GAINS program. GAINS received $6 million from the United States Agency for International Development and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. WCS supports investigations of wild birds and AI in 28 countries.

In Mongolia, a recent hot spot for AI, scientists from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Orga-nization and the U.S. Geological Survey joined WCS Field Veterinarians Martin Gilbert and Scott Newman and the Mongolian Academy of Sciences in surveillance of wild whooper swans. GPS transmitters were attached to the birds to track them to their wintering grounds. Some of the birds have been tracked to Russia, and the data collected may shed light on possible transmission routes for AI across Asia.

In the Falkland Islands, Karesh and Field Veterinarian Marcella Uhart, along with influenza expert David Swayne of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, collected samples from hundreds of rockhop-per penguins that had been exposed to AI. The samples are incubating at Swayne’s laboratory in an effort to grow the viruses that may be infecting the birds.

WCS Cambodia researcher Chea Sokha continues to monitor the merit bird trade (the Buddhist tradition of purchasing caged birds to set free to earn celestial merit and ward off danger) and to collect samples for disease analyses at two key sites in Phnom Penh. Daily counts of birds sold in these locations have reached as high as 99,091. Meanwhile, researcher Yim Saksang compiles socio-economic information and maps the bird trade’s network of trappers and middlemen.

The Field Veterinary Program was awarded two multi-year, multi-million-dollar subcontracts from the National Institutes of Health and National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases to work with the Universities of Minnesota and California at Los Angeles. The universities have been named Centers of Excellence for Influenza Research and Surveillance.


to curators and keepers. Stephanie James, a WHS Clinical

Care Senior Veterinarian, received a grant to assess the health

of loon populations in New York State as a biological indicator

of environmental quality and to investigate the relationship

between environmental contaminants and infectious diseases.

Pamela A. Manning Torres, Veterinary Technician Supervi-

sor, assisted with this project to investigate the relationship

between environmental contaminants and infectious disease.

Scott Silver and Linde Ostro, WCS Director of Individual

Giving, along with six keepers from the Bronx and Queens

zoos, conducted a follow-up survey of translocated howler mon-

keys in the Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary in Belize. >e

results indicated an increase in population density since the first

translocations to that area 15 years earlier. >rough the AZA

Conservation Endowment Fund and a LI Species Survival Fund

grant, David Powell is working on a video that demonstrates

techniques for the design and conduct of behavior research

projects. >is short course is intended for AZA members, WCS

staff, university students, and other educational partners.

Paul Calle, previously a WHC Senior Clinical Care Veteri-

narian, was appointed Acting Director of Zoological Health

Programs. During the year, Calle worked in Southeast Asia in

support of WCS Global Conservation Programs (GCP) for

endangered turtles and tortoises. In Cambodia, Calle assisted

colleague Joe Walston in recovery efforts for mangrove terrapins,

once thought to be extinct in that country. >e work included

inserting identifying microchips into hatchlings before releasing

them. Recovery efforts continued in Myanmar for the Burmese

roof terrapin, another critically endangered turtle. Calle assisted

in developing husbandry techniques, providing adequate facili-

ties for the animals, microchipping babies, and training local

staff to perform these procedures at nest sites.

In China, Senior Clinical Veterinarian Bonnie Raphael and

Clinical Veterinary Technician Karen Ingerman collaborated

with Global Conservation’s John >orbjarnarson in pre-release

health screenings of and transmitter placements in six captive-

born Chinese alligators. >is project is part of a long-term con-

servation strategy for the species, the most endangered of the

23 types of crocodilians. Bronx Zoo-raised Chinese alligators

were among those released on Chongming Island, where there is

adequate habitat to establish a sizable population. Graduate stu-

dents from East China Normal University will track the alliga-

tors’ movements to see how they adapt to and use their habitat.

In another WHS project that deploys veterinary staff to lend

their expertise to governments working to ensure a future for

wildlife, Robert Moore, an Associate Veterinarian in the Clinical

Department, and Curator Catherine McClave traveled to An-

egada, British Virgin Islands, to assess the health of critically en-

dangered Anegada iguanas prior to re-release. A species of rock

iguana, the lizards are collected from the wild as hatchlings and

raised in captivity until they are large enough to avoid predation

by rats and cats. Fewer than 200 of these iguanas exist today.

>rough the year, WHS pathologists identified diseases to

ensure animal health. >ey diagnosed chytridiomycosis, a dead-

ly fungus blamed for global amphibian declines and extinctions,

in a critically endangered group of toads at the Bronx Zoo. >is

lead to the rapid screening of the entire WCS amphibian popu-

lation for the pathogen and treatment of infected animals. A re-

view of samples from the extensive WCS tissue archives showed

this outbreak to be a novel event and one that is unlikely to be

repeated due to ongoing preventive medicine programs and

vigilant monitoring.

>e WHS Field Veterinary Program (FVP) continued to

make advances in the Global Avian Influenza Network for

Surveillance of Wild Birds (see sidebar, page 27). >e FVP also

continued its work in Africa’s Congo Basin, exploring ways to

protect gorillas and chimpanzees from Ebola hemorrhagic fever.

Caused by the Ebola virus, the disease is as highly contagious

and deadly for great apes as it is for humans, killing 80 per-

cent or more of those it infects. Field Veterinarian Alain Ulrich

Ondzie plays a key role in efforts to collect biological samples in

suspected Ebola “hot zones.” Ondzie’s work provides critical in-

formation to the Congolese Ministry of Health, which relies on

the FVP to know where and when Ebola is threatening human

communities. To date, most Ebola epidemics have appeared in

gorilla and chimpanzee populations prior to afflicting people

in the same areas. Identifying active Ebola epidemics is critical

both to learning more about its impact on wildlife and to pro-

tecting surrounding human communities.

>e FVP’s Animal Health for the Environment and De-

Right: Paul Calle, a Wildlife Health Center Senior Clini-

cal Care Veterinarian, was appointed Acting Director

of Zoological Health Programs. During the year, Calle

worked in Southeast Asia with WCS Global Conserva-

tion projects for endangered turtles and tortoises.


velopment (AHEAD) initiative continued to work with the

Southern African Development Community (SADC), par-

ticularly in developing its Regional Biodiversity Strategy. >e

SADC region consists of Angola, Botswana, the Democratic

Republic of Congo, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius,

Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania,

Zambia, and Zimbabwe. As a result of the collaboration, the of-

ficial SADC Regional Biodiversity Strategy acknowledges that

the prospect of removing barriers between wildlife and livestock

under transfrontier land-use initiatives will have major implica-

tions for animal health and disease control in the region. >e

strategy embraces the WCS “One World-One Health” vision

for research, policy, and planning.

Field Veterinarians Marcella Uhart and Carolina Marull—

along with WCS Global Conservation colleagues Claudio

Moraga, Andres Novaro, and Martin Funes—spent three weeks

tracking and capturing elusive guanacos in the highly forested

landscape of Tierra del Fuego, Chile. >e team evaluated the

health of the animals and equipped them with radio collars

for ecological studies. Mange, a contagious skin disease that

has rarely been reported in other parts of South America, was

identified there. Samples collected from these animals will not

only shed light on the origins of this potentially fatal disease so

prevention strategies can be developed, but they will also help

determine the overall health of the guanaco population in this

remote region.


One of the most notable events of the year was the hiring of Sara Hobel as

the new Vice President of Education. A graduate of Dartmouth College and the

Columbia University Graduate School of Business, Hobel has broad environ-

mental education and managerial experience as well as a love for wildlife. She re-

cently served as Director of the New York City Department of Parks’ Urban Park

Rangers Program, where she was responsible for more than 150 full-time and

seasonal conservation officers and educators involved in public programs, wild-

life management, and enforcement in flagship parks throughout the five bor-

oughs of New York City. Hobel replaces Annette Berkovits, who retired as Senior

Vice President for Education after 34 years of service to WCS and the conserva-

tion education field. During Berkovits’s tenure, the WCS Education division

developed a depth of programming unparalleled by any other informal sci-

ence institution (ISI), pioneering life science curricula, or major national teacher

training seminars. WCS also became the first ISI to receive the prestigious Na-

tional Science Board award for excellence and creativity in teaching science.

Living

IN CLASSROOMS AND AT EXHIBITS, in New York City schools

and in remote, developing nations, the WCS Educa-

tion division advances WCS’s mission to save wildlife and

wild lands through a variety of learning opportunities.

Programs encompass teacher training workshops, college

courses, summer camps, theater presentations, community

outreach, and school, weekend, after-school, and distance-

learning initiatives. Unlike many ecology-based programs,

these educational endeavors go beyond emotional pleas for

the protection of wildlife to provide rich environmental

science instruction based on WCS’s pioneering research.

Understanding key scientific principles is the essential

underpinning for a focus on conservation and ecology.



Above and beyond the year’s change in leadership, the

WCS Education division and Fordham University’s Graduate

School of Education forged a partnership to create a Masters

Degree program for middle and high school science teachers.

>e new partnership integrates Fordham’s expertise in teacher

preparation with WCS’s leadership and experience in con-

servation and environmental education. Starting in summer

2008, participants will take six courses at Fordham and six at

the Bronx Zoo.

Another major initiative, for which the Education division

laid the groundwork this year, is the Urban Assembly School

for Wildlife Conservation. >is new public school—partner-

ing WCS with the Urban Assembly, New York City Depart-

ment of Education, and Phipps Community Development

Corporation—will use conservation science as a vehicle to

engage middle and high school students from disadvantaged

communities in interdisciplinary learning. Based at IS 135 in

the Bronx, the school opened in fall 2007 with approximately

150 sixth graders. “>is school will become a model of public

service,” says WCS President and CEO Dr. Steven E. Sander-

son, “enhancing science education for underserved children in

our community. It will also help chart the future of conserva-

tion as we know it—opening doors for young minds and inte-

grating conservation science into their everyday activities.”

>e WCS Education division has a long history of offering

highly engaging programs to K–12 students, who learn key

science, math, social studies, and reading concepts in addition

to important lessons in conservation. For many youngsters,

WCS programs constitute their first introduction to environ-

Pages 30–31: Animal Kingdom Camp is a favorite

for summer learning at the Bronx Zoo. Below: WCS

Conservation Education Fellows from seven countries—

Bangladesh, India, Lao PDR, Madagascar, Republic of

Congo, South Africa, and Uganda—participated in this

yearʼs training program in New York.


Based on your observations, calculate how many calories a snow leopard requires per day. Write a short poem in iambic pentameter about gorillas. What does a veterinary pathologist do? This could very well be a test for students at the new Urban Assembly School for Wildlife Conservation, a public school operated by The City of New York in

cooperation with WCS and the Bronx Zoo. A partnership of WCS, the Urban Assembly, and the Phipps Community Development Corporation, the school opened in fall 2007 with 150 sixth graders from the Bronx and will eventually serve children in grades 6 through 12. For the time being, the school is located at IS 135 in the New York City Department of Education’s Region Two. Students will come from some of the most underserved parts of the Bronx—itself one of the most disadvantaged communities in the country. The Bronx Zoo will serve as the students’ living classroom. Its gorillas, snow leopards, okapis, and other amazing wildlife will help motivate and improve student performance in science and other academic disciplines.

“The Bronx Zoo is very excited about working with the Urban Assembly School for Wildlife Conservation, its students, and their families,” says Don Lisowy, the Zoo’s Curator of Education. “The Zoo will tap into the students’ interest in wildlife, enabling them, regardless of ethnicity, gender, or neighborhood, to achieve at high levels over a significant portion of their school career.”


Teens for Planet Earth, developed by the WCS Education division in 2006, provides young people across the United States and around the world with the tools to engage in conservation-based, service-learning projects in their communities. Teams of teens select an adult advisor and register on www.teensforplanetearth.org to receive sup-port. For example, teams are monitoring coyotes and deer in areas around Chicago and raising awareness about amphibians in Wash-ington State.

At the end of this year, 195 teens had registered, along with 246 adult advisors, representing 40 U.S. states and the District of Colum-bia and 24 countries. In addition, Leadership Institutes for adult advi-sors are held twice yearly. These three-day events prepare educators for the critical role of mentoring the Teens for Planet Earth teams.


mental learning. In 2007, more than 71,000 schoolchildren

benefited from WCS school programming.

Adolescents continue to be an important audience. Teens

for Planet Earth, a prime example, provides young people

from around the world with tools to participate in conser-

vation-based, service-learning projects. >ese projects range

from environmental surveys to habitat cleanups and native

plant restorations.

At the Bronx Zoo, After School Adventures in Wildlife

Science, now in its seventh year, brings highly interesting, con-

tent-rich science education to inner-city high school students

from the five New York City boroughs. Supported by the

Charles Hayden Foundation, the program fosters an interest

in science and science-related careers among underserved stu-

dents. It also enhances their confidence and self-esteem while

providing them with a safe haven during the high-risk after-

school hours. At the Bronx Zoo and the New York Aquarium,

summer teen internships involve youths in environmental and

ecological studies. Teenage volunteers become engaged in all

facets of education programming at the Aquarium, Prospect

Park Zoo, and Queens Zoo.

All public school eighth graders in New York City must-

complete a scientific research project as a prerequisite for

graduation. >rough the Urban Advantage Program, the

WCS Education division shows middle school teachers and

students creative ways in which to use the education resources

at the Bronx Zoo and New York Aquarium to complete their

exit projects. In a similar vein, a new professional development

course at the Bronx Zoo, Field Studies at the Zoo, introduces

eighth-grade teachers to ways to use the Zoo as a site for stu-

dents to study animal behavior.

WCS has long recognized that parents as well as teach-

ers are crucial to a child’s success in school. With two con-

secutive grants from the Institute of Museum and Library

Services (IMLS), Project SPARKS (Supporting Parents in

Advocacy, Reform, and Knowledge in Science) helps parents

in the Bronx involve their children in science education at

home. >e program also has been very effective in encourag-

ing parents to become advocates for science education in their

schools. In recognition, IMLS awarded the WCS Education

division a grant to disseminate the SPARKS model to zoos,

aquariums, natural history museums, and other informal

science institutions nationwide. >rough SPARKS Across

America, the Bronx Zoo shares with ISI educators the lessons

it has learned, enabling them to plan and implement their own

parent involvement programs.

>e New York Aquarium’s EPA-sponsored Project POW-

ER (Protecting Our Wetlands with Educators and Regulators)

concluded this year with the training of staff from zoos and

aquariums in 13 states. Since 1994, the Aquarium has worked

in cooperation with the New York State Department of Envi-

This year, in recognition of the effectiveness of the

WCS Education divisionʼs Project SPARKS (above),

the Institute of Museum and Library Services awarded

WCS a grant to disseminate the SPARKS model to

zoos, aquariums, natural history museums, and other

informal science institutions across the nation.

Project SPARKS (Supporting Parents

in Advocacy, Reform, and Knowledge

in Science) helps parents in the Bronx

engage their children in science

education at home and encourages

those parents to become advocates

for science education in schools.


ronmental Conservation to provide workshops on conserva-

tion regulations and wetland ecology to violators of New York

State’s tidal wetlands laws. >e workshops have been successful

in preventing repeat violations and in promoting an under-

standing of the vital importance of wetlands and the laws that

protect them. Project POWER enabled the Aquarium to dis-

seminate this model to state environmental agencies and ISIs

across the country.

>rough similarly effective—albeit more local—outreach

efforts, the WCS Education division continued to extend its

reach into the City’s diverse communities. Prospect Park Zoo

conducted “Bison and American Prairies” at the Brooklyn

Public Library. Educators used kinesthetic activities to teach

children about food webs, keystone species, and the effect of

one animal’s extinction on other animals. >e educators also

highlighted WCS’s conservation successes with the American

bison. In Queens Zoo programming, educators taught audi-

ences from local day care centers, pre-schools, public schools,

and public libraries about regional wildlife issues. >e Queens

Zoo also hosted underserved middle school students from

Jamaica, Queens, who had enrolled in the Young Women’s

Leadership Foundation School. Programs and field trips for

these students, many of whom had little prior exposure to na-

ture, focused on wildlife issues and careers in conservation.

Central Park Zoo established an eight-part program for

New York City home-schooled students. >rough this effort,

which combines off-site programming and structured field

trips to the Zoo, education staff promotes an understanding of

wildlife science, ecology, and the everyday choices a household

can make to reduce consumption and, in the process, protect

the Earth’s natural resources.

New developments in the Education division’s distance-

learning program, which uses two-way video programming

to reach students in the U.S. and around the world, included

the first-ever video conference with schools in the Domini-

can Republic and Honduras. Distance learning programming

also reached families in the United Kingdom visiting the eight

institutions of the National Museums Liverpool. In addition,

students in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who were displaced by

Above: As part of the New York Aquarium education

programs, teen docents monitor the fish populations

in Coney Island Creek. Right: The WCS Education

Teaching Fellows programs offer first-hand experience

for recent college graduates and graduate students as

environmental educators.



Drama is a powerful teaching tool that can cultivate children’s in-nate sense of wonder about nature. WCS’s Wildlife Theater Program provides theater and conservation education opportunities for school-age children in its four zoos and aquarium and throughout the New York metropolitan area. Combining high quality, hands-on life sci-ence instruction with stimulating theatrical presentations, the program educates children about saving wildlife and wild places around the world. For example, in the play “The Adventures of Captain Cocoa,” the audience joins puppet Captain Cocoa on an adventure to protect the rainforest. This superhero’s antics help youngsters discover that even one person can really help save the day.

Alison Saltz, the Wildlife Theater Program’s Outreach Coordinator, served for four years as Adjunct Performing Instructor with the Wildlife Theater troupe, has written and produced newscasts, and has toured with the National Theater of the Performing Arts.


Hurricane Katrina were given a dozen free programs. Alto-

gether, during the 2006–2007 school years, WCS provided

video-conference programming to more than 8,000 students.

Wildlife >eater remained a perennial favorite with visi-

tors at all of the WCS parks. At the Prospect Park Zoo, the

season’s newest show, “>e Adventures of Captain Cocoa,”

helped audiences learn about rainforest ecology through pup-

petry. At the Queens Zoo, “>e Great Migration Adventure”

and “Look Homeward Pigeon” highlighted the importance

of wetlands and animal migration. At the Central Park Zoo,

audiences of Radio KOL, AOL’s popular online daily show

for kids, were introduced to the Wildlife >eater production

“>undering Hooves, or How the Wildlife Conservation So-

ciety Saved the Bison as Interpreted by Sock Puppets,” written

by On-Site >eater Coordinator Nicole Greevy.

Drama of another sort took place in April at the Bronx

Zoo. In cooperation with the Special Events Department, the

WCS Education division held its fifth annual Poetry Safari

Weekend. >e recipients of the annual Winning Words Poetry

Safari Contest for 8- to 13-year-olds read their entries. More

than 2,100 contest entries were sent in by young people from

New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Massachusetts. Po-

etry events are supported by JPMorgan Chase.

>e Teaching Fellows Programs at the Bronx, Prospect

Park, and Queens Zoos, which provide learning opportuni-

ties to promising university students and young professionals,

opened their doors to a select group of talented educators from

across the U.S. By providing the Fellows with opportunities

to design workshops, teach classes, and assist in WCS educa-

tion initiatives, the program provided the participants with

substantial training and experience while affording the zoos

much-needed teaching assistance.

Now in its eighth year, the WCS Conservation Education

Fellowship Program reached out to educators working with

communities in high-priority areas around the world. >is

year, seven WCS Conservation Education Fellows were cho-

sen—from Bangladesh, India, Lao PDR, Madagascar, Repub-

lic of Congo, South Africa, and Uganda. During the two-and-

a-half-week program, the Fellows observed WCS educational

programs at all five WCS facilities in New York and attended

classes on topics ranging from learning theory and program

evaluation to presentation skills. >ey also met with WCS

staff in the Education and Global Conservation programs and

worked on a conservation education project relevant to their

home country settings.

In spring 2007, the WCS Education division crossed the

digital divide with its first online training program for teach-

ers. Assistant Director of National Programs Jennell Ives trans-

formed a popular 30-hour course on habitat ecology into an

interactive experience for teachers. Participants are eligible for

graduate credits. Based on the success of this pilot, WCS staff

is planning to produce several more.

One of the most exciting new teacher training programs

has been established in Guatemala. >ere, WCS educators

work with the Global Conservation division and the Public

Research and Evaluation team to increase knowledge about

and develop more positive attitudes toward jaguars in the

small communities in and around the Maya Biosphere Re-

serve. Nalini Mohan, a WCS International Teacher Trainer,

paid her second visit to the small community of Uaxactún.

During her visit, students of Jarol Fernando Quixchan, a

schoolteacher she had trained six months earlier, performed a

drama they had written about jaguars, with the Uaxactún ar-

cheological site as the stage.

Tom Naiman, WCS Director of International Education

and Curriculum Development, was elected the 2008 President

of the International Zoo Educators Association (IZE). >is

association consists of more than 250 educators from zoos,

aquariums, and protected areas around the globe. It is also the

official education arm of the World Association of Zoos and

Aquariums.

>e Education division also helped WCS’s country pro-

grams in Belize and China assess the impacts of their educa-

tion and outreach programs and develop strategies for the

future. >ese cooperative efforts are indicative of the ways in

which WCS conservation and education programs around

the world work together to bring more holistic conservation

approaches to bear in landscapes where humans and wildlife

must coexist.

At all of the WCS facilities, Education division volunteers

spread the conservation message to zoo and aquarium visi-

tors of all ages. >is educated, inspired, and highly dedicated

group of docents connects people to wildlife through exhibit

interpretation, school and VIP tours, and vital assistance to

educators conducting programs. We simply cannot thank

them enough.


Living

In 2007, the Global Conservation division (formerly International Con-

servation) completed a strategic planning exercise that renewed its focus on

threatened landscapes, seascapes, and priority species. >e division will con-

centrate its work in four areas: studying climate change and its impact on wild-

life, working with extractive industries to improve conservation outcomes

in production areas, improving systems and approaches to better link con-

servation with the livelihoods of the world’s poor, and deepening the un-

derstanding of the relationships between human and wildlife health.

>e funding base continues to be diverse and strong. Perhaps the great-

est change this year was the increased support from the federal government, in

particular the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

In recent years, major USAID grants have been secured to support projects in

Asia, Africa, and Latin America, and other projects and programs that span the

globe. In the coming year, USAID funding will approach $15 million. >ese

funds—matched by the continued and expanding support from private in-

dividuals, foundations, and corporations—will help the Global Conserva-

tion division increase the depth and breadth of WCS’s conservation impact.

AROUND THE WORLD, WCS continues to increase its impact

by strengthening the field-based conservation efforts that

have been key to its success for decades. As WCS expands

the geographic scope and diversity of each of its global

programs, the organization gains recognition as one of the

world’s most effective and efficient conservation entities.

Grounding in the field brings scientific data to local, national,

and regional policy debates and influences the course of

conservation both on the ground and in policy arenas.



>e forests and savannas of Africa harbor some of Earth’s last

intact wildlife communities, store carbon, and provide vital

services to some of the planet’s poorest people. With 1,100

staff, 10 country programs, and more than 100 projects, WCS

manages the largest, most effective field conservation program

on the continent.

>is year, WCS renewed funding to save the world’s sec-

ond largest rainforest, in the Congo Basin, and to reinvigorate

programs in the east African savannas. USAID committed to

a five-year renewal of the Congo Basin Forest Partnership, the

Republic of Congo pledged to create four new protected areas,

and the Democratic Republic of Congo promised to double

its area under protection. WCS field scientists discovered that

central Africa’s largest national park, Salonga, harbors more

than 7,000 bonobos (pygmy chimpanzees), but it has lost 90

percent of its elephants to poachers. Mike Fay focused the

world’s attention on the slaughter of 1,000 elephants in Za-

kouma, Chad, and Steve Blake documented the catastroph-

ic decline of forest elephants in central Africa. Despite this

troubling news, WCS has made measurable progress with the

landscapes under its management—halting poaching, estab-

lishing sound land-use planning, and helping communities

manage resources sustainably.

For many years, WCS’s work in Africa focused on the

world’s most famous wildlife habitat, the eastern savannas,

but during the 1990s, the Society gave priority to rainfor-

ests and capacity building in central Africa. Today, Global

Conservation is revitalizing its work in eastern Africa. It is

unifying projects in Tanzania under WCS Country Director

Tim Davenport, expanding in Uganda with USAID support,

linking conservation and food security in Zambia’s Luangwa

Valley, and returning to Southern Sudan after 22 years of war

there. >is year, Paul Elkan and Mike Fay repeated the WCS

aerial surveys that were made in 1980 in Southern Sudan and

discovered, to their astonishment, that the world’s second larg-

est terrestrial migration—1.2 million antelopes—still takes

place. >ese results helped WCS launch a partnership with the

autonomous Government of Southern Sudan to rebuild the

region’s parks, regulate oil exploration, promote tourism, and

contribute to sustainable development.

WCS’s upcoming New York City gateway to conservation


in Africa—the Bronx Zoo’s Madagascar! exhibit—is nearing

completion. Meanwhile, with WCS help, the 1,500-square-

mile Makira rainforest was gazetted as the island’s largest

protected area. In addition, the Malagasy Government signed

a groundbreaking agreement with WCS to market reduced de-

forestation carbon, and UNESCO named the Masoala-

Makira Landscape a World Heritage Site.

Asia has some of the highest human populations and densi-

ties (China has more than one billion people) and some of the

lowest (Mongolia, with only two and a half million people). It

has tundra and desert, humid tropical forests and snow-clad

conifers, great flat grasslands and the highest mountains on

Earth. In addition, Asia has the fastest growing economy in

the world.

As a result, the region faces an extraordinary array of threats

to its wildlife and wild places. WCS is active in 16 Asian coun-

tries, implementing a wide variety of solutions to protect wild-

life populations. WCS also works across political boundaries:

in China and Russia to save Amur tigers; in the mountains

of the high Pamirs with the governments of Pakistan, Af-

ghanistan, Tajikistan, and China to protect Marco Polo sheep

and snow leopards; and in Southeast Asia to help control the

unsustainable wildlife trade. Our innovative Tigers Forever

program guarantees not just the survival of tigers at key sites

across their range but an increase in tiger numbers by 50 per-

cent in ten years. In addition, WCS is committed to training

the next generation of conservationists by building practical

knowledge and systems among government agency personnel,

local communities, and students from primary school through

university levels.

>e Latin American landscape is changing, as newly elected

governments develop plans to connect countries via a web of

roads through rural areas. At the same time, WCS is devel-

oping a series of corridors to allow wildlife to migrate freely

through natural landscapes. In the Patagonia steppe, Andrés

Novaro, Susan Walker, and their staff work closely with local

authorities and communities to protect the migratory routes

of guanacos, which may be affected by a new road to serve the

mining industry. In the Upper Amazon, Michael Painter, Rob

Wallace, Lilian Painter, and their staff support local institu-

tions, so that construction of an interoceanic highway con-

necting Brazil with Bolivia and Peru will not permanently

affect old-growth, Brazil nut, and native palm forests. Aquatic

issues in the Amazon are critical to this approach. >e integrity

of river watersheds is key for migratory catfish that travel thou-

sands of miles from the mouth of the Amazon to spawn in the

Upper Madre de Dios. Only sound management decisions

implemented at the right time will help protect these natural

spectacles.

Emphasis on good governance for conservation is help-

ing to protect large natural areas in Latin America. In Guate-

mala, the Multisectoral Roundtable is an initiative in which

stakeholders—local governments, peasant federations, wom-

en’s groups, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and

others—can voice their concerns regarding the building of a

road across the Petén that will link Guatemala with Mexico.

Roan McNab and Bayron Castellanos are leading this effort

to convene a sustainable development approach that focuses

on wildlife conservation. WCS is committed to opening new

gateways to conservation in response to local development ap-

proaches in Latin America.

At the heart of WCS’s global marine efforts is the conservation

of important seascapes—wild areas remaining in the oceans—

and ocean giants—large, highly mobile animals such as

whales, dolphins, sharks, and sea turtles. >e work is complex,

dynamic, and draws on cutting-edge science, strong partner-

ships with communities and governments, and entrepreneur-

ial conservationists of WCS-Marine.

Today, ocean conservation involves forging new relation-

ships and strategies, linking ecology and socioeconomics,

marrying traditional and modern approaches, and working

across political and geographic boundaries. It is also about

changing habits, building new skills, and working on larger

Pages 40–41: WCS is studying leopards in KwaZulu-

Natal, South Africa. Left: Waters surrounding the In-

donesian archipelago host magnificent corals and reef

fish, which are under enormous pressure from environ-

mental changes and development. WCSʼs team works

with communities to protect these fragile ecosystems.


and larger scales to accommodate the various interconnections

over vast distances that sustain life in the sea. In places like

Belize, Fiji, Nicaragua, Papua New Guinea, and Indonesia,

WCS works with fishermen who are becoming researchers and

with communities that are taking active roles in more sustain-

able management of ecologically and economically vital fish

stocks and critical ocean habitats. In Kenya and Madagascar,

and throughout the western Indian Ocean, WCS is identify-

ing and protecting the coral reef systems that are most likely

to persist during this time of climate change. WCS seascapes

are models for conservation efforts elsewhere. And their focus

on ocean giants is revealing the secrets—and the conserva-

tion needs—of animals that captivate public imagination, but

about which we know so little.

For more than a century, WCS has been working to conserve

iconic North American wildlife—wolf, grizzly bear, cougar,

bison, caribou, wolverine—and the continent’s wildest places.

WCS-North America is also advancing its understanding of

the natural processes that support wildlife, such as fire and sea-

sonal migrations. Wildlife face many threats, including natural

resource development, rural and urban sprawl, pollution, and

wildlife diseases. When coupled with climate change, these

threats present major challenges to conservation in the twenty-

first century.

In response to these challenges, WCS-North America is

thinking big! >is year, two new programs were established.

One focuses on the connectivity of wildlife and wild plac-

es across the continent, and the other will deal with climate

change.

Protected contiguous landscapes are critical for wildlife in

North America. >ey allow traditional migrations to contin-

ue—such as the pronghorn path, a 170-mile migratory route

in and out of Grand Teton National Park. >ey also provide

for wide-ranging species—such as wolverine and caribou—to

thrive in Canada’s boreal forest. WCS works with conserva-

tion partners and communities in a suite of large landscapes

across North America—the Adirondacks and Northern Ap-

Bob Inman (above, in foreground) and the staff

of WCS-Greater Yellowstone have discovered that

wolverines routinely travel incredible distances—one

male traversed nearly 560 miles in 42 days.


palachians, Greater Yellowstone and Yellowstone to Yukon,

the boreal forest, the Arctic, and the Sagebrush Sea—to ensure

that wildlife highways—connected and intact landscapes—are

protected on WCS’s home continent. >is is especially critical

in the face of climate change, as temperatures rise and habitats

evolve. WCS is computer-modeling these potential shifts and

the abilities of wildlife to adapt. >e results of this work are

likely to influence the establishment of protected areas.

Globalization links people to international markets and brings

benefits to millions of people around the world. Unfortunate-

ly, the process is also wiping out some of the most spectacular

animals on the planet due to one factor—dramatic increases

in the wildlife trade. Whole animals and their parts are being

sold on an increasingly massive scale. >e world’s wild places

are becoming silent as animals are taken and sold in distant

markets as meat, medicines, furs, feathers, skins, pets, and tro-

phies. Meanwhile, the rural people who depend on wildlife for

life-supporting resources are driven farther and farther away

from home to hunt for smaller and smaller reward.

WCS is expanding its efforts to address this escalating

threat. In 73 projects in 29 countries, its multifaceted, locally

designed programs tackle the entire trade chain from wild areas

to urban markets. WCS is also raising top-level awareness and

political will to take the issue seriously. >is year, much of the

focus was on the increased consumption of wildlife in China,

the world’s largest buyer of tiger skins and bones, ivory, turtles,

snakes, saiga horns, and many other species and their parts.

WCS is working with colleagues in China and beyond to con-

trol this trade that threatens wildlife across the globe.

WCS continues to use its broad field expertise to influence

global decision-making on a wide range of issues affecting

wildlife and wild lands. Climate change was perhaps the fore-

most conservation issue in the international arena this year.

>e Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

estimates that global warming could threaten 20 percent of

Earth’s wild species in the next 50 years.

Tropical deforestation, as both a major source of green-

house gas emissions and an immediate and devastating threat

to wildlife, has long been of great concern for WCS. Forest

loss in developing countries is receiving renewed attention

for its carbon mitigation potential. WCS has been a leader in

developing market-based mechanisms that conserve forests,

which sequester carbon while providing additional benefits for

people and wildlife. Our Makira Forest project in Madagas-

car demonstrates the success of this landscape-level approach.

WCS is taking that experience to the policy level in a number

of countries, seeking to develop forest credits for international

markets and contributing to global forums such as the UN

Convention on Climate Change, the World Bank, and the

Climate, Community and Biodiversity Alliance to develop

rigorous standards for carbon projects that protect standing

forests and their wildlife populations.

WCS-Living Landscapes (LLP) plays an important role within

the conservation community, identifying, testing, and dissem-

inating innovative strategies for large, wild ecosystems. >e

Human Footprint analysis has been extended to the oceans,

for the first time creating a map of the global human marine

footprint. Range-wide priority setting exercises were complet-

ed this year for tigers, North American bison, and four Asian

bear species, leading to plans for conservation in their histori-

cal ranges. WCS’s Global Conservation division will integrate

LLP tools into all site-based projects. Combined with new

expertise in property and tenure rights, market analysis, and

payment for ecosystems services available to WCS through the

new Translinks project, these tools have substantially strength-

ened our ability to conserve threatened wildlife within the

largest, most biologically diverse wild lands across Asia, Africa,

and the Americas. Closer to home, the Mannahatta Project

enables New Yorkers to imagine the nature of the island as it

was 400 years ago.

By forging new ground and tackling conservation challenges

in an evolving world, WCS-Science and Exploration (SEP)

works to save great cats and other wildlife. Animals do not ob-

serve political borders. To save species across their ranges, the

SEP aims to connect landscapes that wildlife require by bring-

ing policymakers from various countries together to build

transboundary peace parks.

>is year, Tigers Forever was born. A Panthera project in


collaboration with WCS, this initiative responds to the threats

tigers face. Its goal is to increase tiger numbers in key areas by

50 percent over the next ten years.

For jaguars, WCS is engaging governments and local stake-

holders across political boundaries. WCS is also conserving

the last known population of Asiatic cheetahs—found in Iran.

It is in these last wild places that WCS discovers windows into

a past when wilderness reigned and into a future that we hope

prevails for some of the most endangered species on Earth.

Graduate education and other forms of training are important

gateways to long-term careers for many conservationists. >is

year, the WCS Graduate Scholarship Program awarded seven

scholarships to students from Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

>rough the Conservation Leadership Programme (formerly

the BP Conservation Programme), WCS provided three addi-

tional graduate scholarships and project funding for 26 teams

of young conservationists from 19 countries. Under the Re-

search Fellowship Program, WCS awarded 19 grants to help

build the grantees’ capacity in applied conservation research.

Investment in partner organizations continued through the

NGO Institutional Development Program, providing seven

grants to NGO partners around the world to support staff

training, infrastructure development, and institutional plan-

ning and management systems. Another six teams of MBA

students from the University of California, Berkeley worked

on business planning projects with WCS programs and part-

ner organizations in Africa and Latin America.

>e WCS partnership with Rare, an international NGO

specializing in social marketing campaigns to support con-

servation, continued to develop, with the launch of four new

WCS Rare Pride campaigns. >e campaign species are the

colobus monkey in Cameroon, the Tibetan antelope in China,

the bonobo in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the gi-

ant pangolin in Gabon.

Dale Lewis directs one of WCS’s, indeed Africa’s, most creative and ambitious conservation experiments. He works in Zambia’s Luangwa Valley, an 80,000-square-mile oasis of elephants, hippos, giraffes, lions, and more.

A University of Texas graduate with a PhD in Zoology and Population Genetics, Dale studied birds and elephants in Zambia before joining WCS in 1979. He soon realized that effective conservation could not ignore the Val-ley’s quarter of a million impoverished people. In the 1980s and ’90s, he pioneered ADMADE (Administrative Management Design), a program to share the proceeds of safari hunting with rural people, and founded a game management training college. Some poaching persisted, however, because hunting provided unskilled people with ready cash and food.

In response, Dale launched COMACO (Community Markets for Conservation) in 2001 with support from the World Food Program. COMACO gives seeds to farmers who stop poaching. In return, they are taught conserva-tion farming practices and participate in the program’s cooperative marketing board for fair trade. The results are astounding: Thousands of snares and guns have been surrendered, hundreds of poachers have been transformed, and 50,000 families are better fed. In addition, aerial censuses by WCS and the Zambian Wildlife Authority have confirmed that wildlife is returning to the valley.

Dale’s tireless commitment to conservation is recognized and supported by key individuals—in particular his wife of more than 20 years, Julia Nagata, a host of Zambian coworkers, and American philanthropist Bill Lloyd. Dale and the WCS Zambia staff—all dynamic, industrious, and committed people—have gained worldwide admiration and press attention. The Royal Norwegian Embassy in Zambia has provided major funding to the program, and in 2003, Princess Anne presented Dale with the Whitley Conservation Award.



Field

BOTSWANAScent marking in African wild dogs: Understanding habitat manage-ment and conservation. M. Parker

CAMEROONStatus and conservation of Cross River gorillas in the Cameroon Highlands. A. Nicholas, J. Oates, Y. Warren

Management of Mbam-Djerem National Park. R. Fotso, B. Fosso

Large mammal surveys and bushmeat studies around Mbam-Djerem National Park. R. Fotso, F. Maisels

CAMRAIL: Support of law en-forcement of bushmeat transport on the railway. R. Fotso

Wildlife survey of Banyang-Mbo Wild-life Sanctuary. Elizabeth Greengrass, F. Maisels, A. Nichols, R. Fotso

Wildlife and Human Impact Monitoring, Mbam-Djerem National Park. F. Maisels, R. Fotso

Wildlife and Human Impact Monitor-ing, Takamanda Planned National Park. F. Maisels, Y. Warren, H. Mboh, A. Nichols, R. Fotso

Advice on general monitor-ing and survey methodology to WCS Cameroon. F. Maisels

CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLICDzanga forest elephant demographics and social dynamics. A. Turkalo

Research on the use of elephant infra-sound as a method of censusing in forests (Cornell University). A. Turkalo

CONGO REPUBLICNouabalé-Ndoki Project, Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park (NNNP). M. Gately, E. Stokes, P. Elkan, S. Elkan, J. Mokoko, D. DosSantos

Large mammal distribution and relative abundance between NNNP and the village of Bomassa-Bon Coin. E. Stokes, D. Ekoutouba, M. Mboulafini, M. Hockemba

Do experiments predict practice? Evaluating the influence of patience on human behavior in Gabon. D. Wilkie

Monitoring Key Mammal Species in the Ndoki-Likouala Landscape of Northeastern Congo. E. Stokes, S. Strindberg, H. Rainey, D. Ekoutouba, M. Mboulafini, M. Hockemba

General advice on wildlife monitoring. F. Maisels

Dynamics of bai use by forest elephants in the Odzala-Kokoua National Park: ecology, sociality, and risk. V. Fishlock, S. Blake

Protection of forest elephants in the Odzala-Kokoua National Park, Congo. D. Bourges, S. Blake, R. Malonga

Conservation of elephants in Bateke Plateaux Landscape. P. Telfer, N. Bout, M. Bourgarel, S. Blake, F. Maisels. (Gabon and Republic of Congo)

Long-term phenological and nu-tritional studies of elephant and ape foods. E. Stokes, D. Morgan, C. Sanz, T. Breuer, L. Bodjo

Nouabalé-Ndoki peripheral

zone management. P. Elkan, P. Auzel, C. Prevost, S. Elkan

Biological surveys and monitoring in Nouabalé-Ndoki peripheral zone and greater landscape. P. Elkan, E. Stokes, S. Strindberg, R. Malonga

Bushmeat off-take monitoring in logging concessions in the buf-fer zone of NNNP. P. Elkan, M. Mocknin, M. Eaton, R. Malonga

Bushmeat off-take and human demographic monitoring in Bomassa-Bon Coin, NNNP. D. Ekoutouba, E. Stokes

Mbeli Bai gorilla social dynam-ics, ecology, and genetics. T. Breuer, E. Stokes, B. Bradley

Ecology and social behavior of chimpan-zees of the Goualogo Triangle, NNNP. D. Morgan, C. Sanz, J. Onononga

Chimpanzee genetics study, Goualougo Triangle, NNNP. D. Morgan, C. Sanz, B. Bradley

Before-and-after impacts of logging: Focal study on chimpanzees and gorillas, Goualougo Triangle, NNNP. D. Morgan, C. Sanz, S. Strindberg

Conservation of Conkouati-Douli National Park. H. Van Leeuwe

Conservation and biological surveys of Lac Télé Commu-nity Reserve. H. Rainey

School education program and envi-ronmental curriculum development. S Elkan, M. Gately, E. Stokes

Odzala Kokoua National Park Project. R. Malonga

Bateke Plateau Project. N. Gami

Development of Congo Wildlife Service. P. Elkan, J. Mokoko

Lope/Chaillou Project in Congo. P. Elkan, J. Mokoko

CHADConservation of and law enforce-ment monitoring for the el-ephants of Zakouma National Park. J. M. Fay, J.P. Froment

DEMOCRATIC REPUB-LIC OF CONGO Elephant and large mammal monitoring in the Okapi Faunal Reserve. J. Hart, P. Tshikaya

Okapi Faunal Reserve and Commu-nity Management Zoning Project. R. Tshombe, R. Mwinyihali, E. Brown

Ituri Forest Research and Training Center (CEFRECOF). J. Hart

Botanical exploration of the Okapi Faunal Reserve. C. Ewango

Gorilla monitoring in Kahuzi Biega Na-tional Park, exploration of the lowland sector and habitat mapping. I. Lien-gola, J. Hart, M. Mbachu, J. Muhigua

Large mammal surveys and sup-port to management in Kahuzi Biega National Park. I. Lien-gola, J. Hart, F. Grossmann

Support of the re-establishment of Kahuzi Biega National Park infrastructure. J. Hart, S. Whataut

Coordinating a collaborative biological monitoring program in five World Heritage Sites, in conjunction with MIKE program (Monitoring the Illegal Killing of Elephants). J. Hart

Itombwe Forest, advising and follow-up on a community conservation project developed by national NGO. J. Hart, L. Mubalama

Development of a national conserva-tion database, support systems for ICCN. R. Mwinyhali, T. Hart

Maiko National Park. F. AmsiniEstimating forest zoning and forestry impact. J.R. Makana

Developing a park-wide monitoring sys-tem with rangers in Virunga National Park. D. Kujirakwinja, A.J. Plumptre

Support to park management planning, park management and transboundary collaboration with Uganda. D.Kujirakwinja

Conflict resolution for natural resources conflicts in Virunga National Park. D. Kujirakwinja

Newly discovered species in Misotschi-Kabogo region of SE DR Congo. D. Kujirakwinja, A.J. Plumptre

Wildlife and Human Impact Monitor-ing, Salonga National Park and Landscape: WCS DRC. F. Maisels

Bushmeat surveys in the Salonga Land-scape. L. Steel, F. Maisels, P. Cowles

ETHIOPIAEthiopian elephant: Critical population monitoring and law enforcement. Y. Demeke, K. Leggett, M. Kock

GABONResearch and training for management of Lopé National Park and develop-ment of visitor center. K. Abernethy, L. White, K. Jeffrey, E. Chehoski

>e effects of oil exploration on for-est elephants in Loango National Park, Gabon. P. Wrege, S. Blake

Protection of forest elephants in Ivindo National Park, Ga-bon. N. Orbell, S. Blake

Long-distance movements of for-est elephants in the Minkébé National Park and their implica-tions for conservation. S. Blake, M. Ella Akou, P. de Wachter

Langoué Bai forest elephant monitoring project. M. Doukaga Kombila

Forest history and dynamics and their implications for manage-ment in the Lopé National Park. L. White, R. Oslisly, A. Batsielili

Ecology and social organization of elephants in central Gabon. L. Momont, S. Blake, L. White

Sea turtle research, conservation, and support to a national NGO, ASF. G. P. Sounguet, R. Parnell, A. Formia

Bushmeat survey and manage-ment. K. Abernethy, M. Star-key, D. Wilkie, E. Effa

Management, research, and eco-tourism in Iguela, coastal Gabon. T. Nishihara, R. Parnell

Gorilla research at Langoué Bai. M. Doukaga Kombila

Establishment of national park management infrastructure with Gabon government. N. Orbell, L. White, B. Curran, M. Fay

Cetacean research and humpback whale conservation in coastal Gabon. S. Ngouessono, N. Bdinga, T. Collins, H. Rosenbaum

Support to government for establish-

ment of a protected areas network: 13 new national parks. L. White, M. Fay

Bateke National Park Project. R. Calaque

Ivindo National Park Conserva-tion Project. N. Orbell

Mont Cristal National Park. J. Overman

Gabon Press and Communica-tions Program. J. Ponte

Mayumba Marine National Park Project. R. Parnell

Birougou and Waka National Park Projects. M. Starkey

Akanda/Pongara National Park Project. B. Curran

Gabon outreach and educa-tion program. E. Chehoski

Gabon ecotourism development. J. Gwynne, L. White, B. Curran

Reduced impact logging. M. Vroom

Wildlife and Human Impact Monitoring, Birougou National Park, Gabon: F. Maisels, R. Aba’a, A. Bezangoye, M. Starkey

Wildlife and Human Impact Monitoring, Loango National Park, Gabon. F. Maisels, M. Kokan-goye, S. Leduc Yeno, T. Nishihara, H. Kuehl, B. Huijbregts

Wildlife and Human Impact Monitor-ing, Mayumba National Park, Gabon: F. Maisels, Q. Mackaya, R. J. Parnell

Wildlife and Human Impact Monitor-ing, Waka National Park, Gabon. F. Maisels, G. Abitsi, M. Starkey

Monitoring of Djidji Bai, Ivindo National Park, Gabon: C. Faure, F. Maisels, N. Orbell

Parks and people project: D. Wilkie, J. Demmer, F. Maisels

GHANAPopulation surveys for crocodiles in Ghana. M. Shirley, J. >orbjarnarson

IVORY COASTConservation of West African manatees and Fresco Lagoon complex. A. Kouadio

Chimpanzee, elephant, pygmy hippo surveys in Azagny Na-tional Park & Port Gaultier Forest complex. A. Kouadio

Crocodile population surveys in Cote d’Ivoire. M. Shirley, J. >orbjarnarson, A. Kouadio

KENYALaikipia Predator Project: Conserva-tion of large carnivores in live-stock areas, mitigating human-predator conflict. L. Frank

Kilimanjaro Lion Conserva-tion Project. L. Frank

Lion Guardians. L. Frank, L. Hazzah

Conservation of African wild dogs in the Samburu-Laikipia area. R. Woodroffe

MADAGASCARMasoala National Park Conservation Project. N. Blondel, J. Mac Kinnon, H. Crowley, L. Andriamampianina

Protection of Makira Forests through the creation of a new conservation site. C. Holmes, H. Crowley, L. Andriamampianina, D. Meyers

Freshwater fish in-situ and ex-situ conservation. P. Loiselle


WCS is undertaking a new initiative—called Warm Waters for Cool Bears—to help save polar bears, Earth’s largest terrestrial carnivore. Scott Bergen will use satellite imagery to predict areas of sea ice that are likely to remain despite global warming, and thus where efforts to save polar bears will be most effective. Other studies have followed individual females via satellite collars.

Polar bears rely on seasonal sea ice for stalking ringed and bearded seals, their principal prey. A loss of this vital hunting habitat affects the ability of females to rear their cubs. Early recession of coastal ice makes a previously manageable voyage hazardous. Without thick ice to walk on, some bears drown from exhaustion while futilely swimming for shore. Those that do make it may be stranded for longer periods without food as the sea ice becomes more distant and inaccessible.

This project is funded by a $100,000 grant from the Wendy P. McCaw Foundation and is the first distribution-wide study on the ecological needs of polar bears in the context of global warming. A comprehensive Geographical Information Systems (GIS) map incorporating nearly 30 years of remote sensing and meteorological data will be used to determine which of the existing 18 popula-tions of polar bears stand the best chance of surviving as the polar cap shrinks in size.

Scott is also working with researchers from the United States Geological Service in Alaska to estimate what past, current, and future sea ice conditions mean for polar bear reproductive success on the northern slope of Alaska. This study will be part of the administrative report that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will use to determine whether to list polar bears as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act.


Conservation of humpback whales and marine mammals in An-tongil Bay. H. Rosenbaum, Y. Razafindrakoto, S. Cerchio

Conservation of the radiated tor-toise and spider tortoise and the habitat in southern Madagas-car. H. Randriamahazo

Sahamalaza community-based natural resource management project. L. Andriamampianina, N. Ramasinoro

Capacity building and training program; education and training modules for conservation biology for university and government institu-tions. H. Crowley, T. Rahagalala

Support to Madagascar government’s na-tional conservation planning. J. MacK-innon, H. Crowley, L. Andriamampia-nina, H. Randriamahazo, D. Meyers

Support to the Madagascar National Parks Service: Business plans for parks, ecological monitoring, and sustainable finance mechanisms. J. MacKinnon, H. Crowley, R. Victurine

Promotion of ecotourism in Masoala

and Andohahela National Parks. H. Crowley, L. Andriamam-pianina, J. MacKinnon

NAMIBIAEcology, conservation, and community-based management of desert-adapted elephant and giraffe in northwest. K. Leggett

NIGERIAStatus of Cross River gorillas in south-eastern Nigeria. A. Dunn, J. Oates

Status of forests, gorillas, other primates in eastern Nigeria. A. Dunn, J. Oates

Development of a conservation resource center at the University of Calabar. A. Dunn, J. Oates

Surveys of chimpanzees in the western forests of Nigeria. E. Greengrass, J. Oates

RWANDAEcotourism development in Nyungwe National Park. I. Munanura, N.

Barakabuye, B. Weber, R. Victurine

Nyungwe forest conservation: Educa-tion, inventory, and monitoring. I. Munanura, F. Mulindahab, A. Plumptre, M. Sindikubwabo, E. Kaplin, M. Masozera

Restoring biodiversity conserva-tion capacity in the mountain forest protected areas. M. Masoz-era, B. Weber, I. Munanura

Elephant surveys in Akagera National Park, I. Munanura, G. Parker

Transboundary coordination between protected area forests of Kabira, Burundi and Nyungwe, Rwanda. N. Barakabuye, I. Munanura

Ranging behavior of a group of 400 colobus monkeys. F. Mulindahabi, M. Masozera, A. Plumptre

SOUTH AFRICAImpact of legal and illegal hunting on leopard ecology in KwaZulu-Natal; using leopards to promote conservation planning. L. Hunter

TANZANIASouthern Highlands Conserva-tion Program. T. Davenport, N. Mpunga, S. Machaga

Conservation of the Mt. Rungwe-Kitulo landscape. T. Davenport, N. Mpunga, S. Machaga, D. DeLuca

Carnivores of the Rift. D. De-Luca, N. Mpunga

Conservation of the Kipunji, a newly discovered primate. T. Davenport, N. Mpunga, S. Machaga, D. DeLuca

Tanzania Mammal Action Plan-ning: a national plan for mammal conservation in Tanzania. C. Foley, S. Durant, A. Lobora, S. Mduma

Tarangire Siminjaro Landscape Project. C. Foley, L. Foley

Tarangire Elephant Project. C. Foley, L. Foley, L. Munishi

Tanzania Cheetah Conservation Program: A survey of the distribu-tion and status of cheetahs. S. Durant, J. Shemkunde, D. Gottelli

In 1999, Aili Kang, a Shanghai graduate student in chemistry, was wandering her university’s halls looking for something interesting to do. In a stroke of fate, she stumbled upon Endi Zhang, a biology professor and Director of WCS-China. That meeting forever changed Aili’s life and conservation in western China.

Aili had been interested in animals for as long as she could remember, but until she met Endi, she hadn’t realized she could turn that interest into a career. A stint studying Chinese water deer quickly led to a PhD project on the breeding behavior of captive saiga. While studying those antelopes, Aili realized that the last of the wild saiga had suffered a 95 percent decline in the previous 15 years.

While working on her doctorate, Aili translated George Schaller’s book Wildlife of the Tibetan Steppe into Chinese for WCS. Little did she know that only a year after completing her PhD, she would be traveling across the Tibetan steppe with Schaller. On that trip, they confirmed the breeding grounds of the western population of Tibetan antelope and helped the government set up the West Kunlun Reserve. Later that same year, she traveled with Schaller into the Pamir Mountains of western China to survey giant Marco Polo sheep. Four more trips to Tibet followed, including a two-month winter traverse of the remote northern Chang Tang.

Today, Aili Kang is the WCS-West China Coordinator. She leads a new multi-million-dollar, three-year WCS project to develop a conservation management plan for the greater Chang Tang region in Tibet. She is also the Chinese contact for the Pamirs’ four-country transboundary protected area initiative and continues to be active in fieldwork on Tibetan antelope and Marco Polo sheep. Luck led Aili to WCS, but her commitment to saving wildlife has made her one of the best conservation biologists in China.


Tanzania Carnivore Conservation Center. S. Durant, M. Msuha

Rungwa-Ruaha Landscape Pro-gram. P. Coppolillo

Zanzibar coastal forest conservation and red colobus project. K. Siex

UGANDADevelopment of the Institute of Tropical Forest Conservation in Bwindi Impen-etrable National Park. A. McNeilage

Assessment of the impact of oil explora-tion on biodiversity conservation in Uganda. I. Owiunji, A.J. Plumptre

Surveys of the Bwindi Impen-etrable National Park. A. Mc-Neilage, A.J. Plumptre

Monitoring the impact of conserva-tion and development projects in western Uganda. A. McNeilage, S. Nampindo, A.J. Plumptre, G. Nangendo, S. Ayebare

Summarizing the impact of research on conservation of Uganda’s parks and forest reserves. W. Olupot

Understanding the trade in bush-meat in Uganda. W. Olupot

Lion conservation in Queen Elizabeth National Park. A.J. Plumptre, J. Ziwa

Conservation of the mountain gorilla population in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. A. McNeilage

Biodiversity: Ecological processes, evolutionary mechanisms, and capacity building. C. Chapman, L. Chapman

Building the capacity of Uganda Wildlife Authority in monitoring, research, and adaptive management. A.J. Plumptre

Transboundary collaboration for pro-tected areas in between Uganda Wild-life Authority and Institut Congolais pour la Conservation de la Nature in Democratic Republic of Congo. A. Plumptre, I. Owiunji, D. Kujirakwinja

Biological surveys of the Albertine Rift forests to establish zoning plans for the forests. A. Plumptre, I. Owiunji, D. Kujirakwinja

>e ecology of disease transmission: Implications for primate conservation in Kibale National Park. I. Rwego

Surveys of the impact of conflict on the environment in north-ern Uganda. S. Nampindo, G. Picton-Phillips, A.J. Plumptre

ZAMBIACommunity markets for conserva-tion and rural livelihoods (CO-MACO). D. Lewis, B. Siachoono, R. Nabuyanda, N. Tembo, M. Matokwani, J. Phiri, W. Daka, M. Kabila, M. Moonga, H. Mseteka, J. Nyirenda, S. Osofsky, A. Travis

Database management for a multi-sector approach to wildlife conservation. D. Lewis, M. Kabila, M. Moonga

Conservation through “Food-for-better-farming” initiative. D. Lewis, N. Tembo, J. Phiri, A. Travis

Poacher/hunter-to-farmer transforma-tion program. D. Lewis, N. Tembo

Community expeditions in African culture and wilderness—living ecotourism. D. Lewis, C. Ngoma

Nyamaluma College community-based training and land-use planning/African College for CBNRM. D. Lewis, N. Tembo

Ecology and deterrence of crop-raiding elephants. F. (Loki) Osborn, M. Gravina

REGIONALRange-wide priority-setting for African Cheetahs and Wild Dogs. S. Durant, R. Woodroffe, K. Minkowski, M. Parker, E. Sanderson

Forest Elephant Crisis in the Congo Basin. S. Blake, S. Strindberg et al.

Ranging patterns and conserva-tion of forest elephants in the Congo Basin. S. Blake

Survival strategies of African elephants across their ecological range. I. Douglas-Hamilton, S. Blake, H. Rasmussen, G. Wittermyer, K. Leggett

Wildlife monitoring capacity-building in Central Africa. F. Maisels

Ape Survey and Monitoring Guide-lines project (Species Specialist Group: IUCN). F. Maisels

Census of the mountain gorillas of the Virunga volcanoes (Rwanda, Uganda, DR Congo). A. McNeilage, M. Gray, K. Fawcett, M. Robbins, A. Plumptre

Central African Forestry Pro-gram and long-term study of botanical plots. V. Medjibe

Ecology and management of the African dwarf crocodile in Gabon and Congo. M. Eaton, J. >orbjarnarson

Satellite image analysis of the Albertine Rift to assess forest change since the mid-1980s. A. Plumptre, N. Laporte

Development of elephant monitor-ing system in the Congo Basin for CITES, MIKE Program (Monitor-ing the Illegal Killing of Elephants). S. Blake, J. Hart, R. Beyers

MegaFlyover: Last of the Wild/Hu-man Footprint, over-flight and ground-truthing exploration for setting conservation action priorities across the African continent. M. Fay, E. Sanderson, Congo Basin Forest Partnership (CBFP) under Central African Regional Program for the Environment (USAID/CARPE). J. Deutsch, K. Siex, C. Connolly

Trinational park monitoring: Congo, CAR, Cameroon (WCS/WWF/USAID). A. Turkalo, M. Gately, E. Stokes

Conservation Flight Program. D. MoyerGIS and remote sensing support for Africa. G. Picton-Phillips

Conservation Finance Pro-gram. R. Victurine

Lion Conservation Program “Project Leonardo”. L. Hunter, N. Williams

Population status, conservation and systematics of Nile crocodiles in West and Central Africa. J. >orbjar-narson, G. Amato, M. Shirley

AFGHANISTAN Wildlife surveys in the Pamirs. A. Dehgan, B. Habib, Z. Moheb, S. Naqibullah

Marco Polo sheep research proj-ect. R. Harris, A. Dehgan

Four-country transboundary pro-tected area initiative (Afghanistan, China, Pakistan & Tajikistan). A.

Dehgan, G. Schaller, P. ZahlerCommunity conservation and ecotourism in Wakhan. J. Mock, I. Ali, K. O’Neil

Rangeland assessments in Af-ghanistan. D. Bedunah

Hazarajat Plateau conservation initiative. C. Shank, A. Alavi

Wildlife-livestock ecosystem health in the Pamirs. S. Os-trowski, A. Rajabi, H. Noori

Eastern Forests assessment. A. DehganBiodiversity legislation and policy review. J. Wingard, A. Dehgan

Ecosystem services valuation. K. Han, D. Wilkie, A. Dehgan, R. Victurine

GIS landscape analyses. E. Delattre, H. R. Rahmani, A. Dehgan, R. Sanger

Conservation capacity build-ing and training. K. Stevens

CAMBODIA Cambodian Vulture Conserva-tion Project. S. Chansocheat, T. Clements, M. Gilbert

Conserving the Tonle Sap Great Lake’s large-waterbird colo-nies. S. Visal, L. Kheng

Conservation and recovery of the estuarine terrapin Batagur baska in Cambodia. H. Sovannara

Conservation of the seasonally inundated grassland biodiversity of the Tonle Sap Great Lake. H. Chamnan, S. Polin, T. Evans

Establishing CALM (Conservation Areas through Landscape Manage-ment) in the Northern Plains of Cambodia. T. Setha, H. Sambath, H. Piseth, T. Clements, A. John

Production of Khmer language field guides and training materi-als. WCS-Cambodia staff

Seima Biodiversity Conservation Area. M. Soriyun, E. Pollard, T. Evans

Development of a national conserva-tion plan for Siamese crocodiles in Cambodia. J. >orbjarnarson, J. Walston, H. Sovannara

CHINAWest China (Tibet, Xinjiang, Qinghai) ungulate conservation. A. Kang, K. Zhang, G. Schaller

Transboundary Amur tiger conser-vation project. E. Li, C. Zhang, D. Miquelle, A. Heydlauff

Country-wide wildlife trade review and program develop-ment. Y. Xie, L. Li, E. Bennett

Conservation Education. Z. Li, X. Zhou, L. Du, N. Mohan

Conservation and biodiversity information. Y. Xie, Y.M. Du, L. Du, S. Li, Y.C. Du

China Species Red List. Y. Xie, Y.M. Du, L. Du, S. Li, Y.C. Du

Conservation of endangered wildlife used for traditional medicine. E. Li, L. Li

Four-country transboundary protected area initiative (Afghanistan, China, Pakistan & Tajikistan). G. Schaller, A. Kang, Y. Xie, P. Zahler

Conservation and recovery of the Chinese alligator. J. >or-bjarnarson, X. Wang

Conservation of the Yangtze gi-ant softshell turtle in China. J.

>orbjarnarson, Y. Xie, L. Li

INDIATiger surveys and monitoring. U. Karanth, S. Kumar, Srinivas, J. Krishnaswamy, G.V. Reddy, A. Gopalaswamy, D. Girish, B. Hegde

Community leadership for tiger conservation Karnataka. U. Karanth, P. Muthanna, K. Chin-nappa, P. Bhargav, N. Jain

India M.Sc. graduate program in Wildlife Conservation. U. Karanth, A. Kumar, J. Krishnaswamy

Tiger habitat consolidation-land acquisition project. U. Karanth

Wildlife conservation outreach project. U. Karanth, S. Gubbi, S. Dattatri

Biodiversity exploration and primate surveys in northeastern India. A. Sinha

INDONESIA Conservation of Southern Sumatra For-ests: Bukit Barisan Selatan and Bukit Balai Rejang. P. Wibowo, M. Nusaia-wo, S. Ering, N. Brickle, N. Andayani

Elephant conservation in Sumatra in-cluding resolution of human-elephant conflicts. D. Gunaryadi, S. Hedges

Sumatra-wide forest assessment. B. Dewantara, D. Gaveau, B. Antonio

Conservation of North Sulawesi forests and wildlife, including “Green Livelihoods” Program. P. Wibowo, J. Tasirin, D. Rogi, E. Manasea

Conservation of the endan-gered Maleo in Sulawesi. I. Hunowu, D. Rogi, J. Tasirin

Sumatran tiger conservation, includ-ing Sumatra-wide large mammal assessment. Iswandri, H. Wibi-sono, D. Gunaryadi, N. Brickle

Tiger conservation in Leuser Ecosystem, North Sumatra and Aceh. B.P. Baroto, H. Wibisono

Indonesia Wildlife Crime Unit. D. Nugroho, S. Siwu, H. Alexander

IRANConservation of the Asiatic cheetah, its natural habitat, and associated biota. L. Hunter, G. Schaller, P. Zahler

KAZAKHSTAN Ecology and conservation of a unique community of endangered eagles at the Naurzum Zapoved-nik. T. Katzner, E. Bragin

Status and conservation of vultures in southeastern Kazakhstan. T. Katzner, S. Sklyarenko

LAO PEOPLES DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICBolikhamxay ecosystem and wildlife management project. M. Hede-mark, C. Hallam, A. Johnson, S. Vannalath, A. Rasphone, P. Sisavath

Friends of Wildlife Radio Pro-gram. T. Hansel, S. Saypanya

University Biodiversity Conserva-tion Curriculum Project (WCS & AMNH). K. Spence, A. John-son, S. Ounmany, M. Rao

Vientiane Capital City wildlife trade project. T. Hansel, D. Vannavong R. Stenhouse

Asian elephant conservation project on the Nakai Plateau. A.


Johnson, S. Hedges, S. Nouan-syvong, B. Phommachanh

Elds deer conservation project (WCS and Smithsonian). S. Ounmany, D. Cooper, C. Hallam, M. Hedemark, W. McShea

Tiger Conservation Project – Nam Et-Phou Louey. A. Johnson, Venevongphet, T. Saithong-dam, S. Saypanya, T. Hansel

Western black-crested gibbon conservation project. R. Stenhouse, M. Hedemark, S. Nouansyvong

Wildlife and forest products manage-ment project. R. Stenhouse, S. Pan-Inhuane, M. Hedemark

Biodiversity monitoring and enforce-ment project- Nakai-Nam >eun. A. Johnson, J. Johnston, A. Lynam

University student research projects. A. Johnson, S. Oun-many, C. Hallam, D. Cooper, M. Duangdala, F. Van der Helm

Conservation Planning for the Nam Kading Protected Area in the Bolikhamxai Province. A. Johnson, G. Bryja, A. Rasphone, E. Delattre, S. Strindberg

MALAYSIA Advising on Wildlife Master Plan implementation. M. Gumal, C. Chin, M. Meredith

Conservation of wildlife in production forest in Ulu Baram. C. Chin, M. Meredith, J. Mathai, N. Jalaweh

Monitoring and conserving primates in Maludam National Park. J. Hon

Surveys of and setting pri-orities for orangutans in Sara-wak. J. Rubis, M. Gumal

Expanding wildlife conservation training modules in Malaysia. M. Meredith, M. Gumal, C. Chin

Conservation education: Teachers for Tigers. M. Gumal, C. Chin

Bats and birds in Loagan Bunut National Park. J. Hon, D. Kong, M. Gumal

Taman Negara elephant conservation. J. Sompud, S. Hedges, M. Gumal

MONGOLIA >e Eastern Steppe living land-scape: Sustaining wildlife and traditional livelihoods in the arid grasslands of Mongolia. A. Fine

Assessment of wildlife trade in Mon-golia. N. Odonchimeg, A. Fine

Mongolian saiga antelope conser-vation. J. Berger, K. Berger

Research on Mongolian ga-zelles in the Eastern Steppe. K. Olson, S. Bolortsetseg

Foot and mouth disease in the Mongolian gazelle. K. Olson, S. Bolortsetseg, A. Fine

Marmot population assessment—identifying conservation strate-gies and management options. S. Townsend, P. Zahler, S. Strindberg, A. Fine, O. Chimedtseren

Landscape species selection for the Eastern Steppe region of Mongo-lia. L. Ochirkhuyag, A. Fine, B. Geary, K. Didier, S. Strindberg

Conservation Landscape Map-ping. L. Ochirkhuyag, A. Fine, B. Geary, K. Didier, S. Strindberg

Community-based wildlife conservation

on the Eastern Steppe. A. Winters, S. Bolorsetseg, A. Fine, L. Ochirkhuyag

Collaborative wildlife protection program in the Nomrog Strictly Protected Area. A. Lynam, K. Olson, O. Chimedtseren

Avian influenza: surveillance of wild migratory birds. M. Gilbert, A. Fine

MYANMAR Management of the Hukaung Valley Tiger Reserve of northern Myanmar. A. Rabinowitz, W. Duckworth, A. Lynam, R. Tizard, M. Maung, T. Myint, S. Htun

Irrawaddy dolphin conservation, Irrawaddy River. B.D. Smith. A.M. Chit, M.T. Tun, H.Win, T. Moe

Northern Forest Complex (NFC) landscape project. A. Rabinowitz, W. Duckworth, M. Maung, K.M. Hla, T. Myint, S. Htun, T. Zaw, M.M. Oo

Elephant conservation in Hukaung Valley Tiger Reserve. S. Hedges, T. Myint, K.K. Khan, Z. M. Win

Turtle conservation. W. K. Ko, K. M. Myo, K. Moe, T. Lwin, Y. Myint, W. Holmstrom

PAKISTAN Conservation education and biodiversity preservation in the Diamer and Gilgit Districts of northern Pakistan. M. Khan

Four-country transboundary pro-tected area initiative (Afghanistan, China, Pakistan & Tajikistan). M. Khan, G. Schaller, P. Zahler

PAPUA NEW GUINEAPNG biologist training for field tech-niques, project design, data analysis, and report writing. A. Mack, D. Wright, F. Clarke, P. Igag, M. Supuma

Conservation education for PNG primary and secondary schools. L. Dori, S. Tui, D. Wright, R. Sinclair

Hunting in the Crater Moun-tain Wildlife Management Area (Crater WMA). A. Mack, M. Kigl, J. Novera, K. Yhuange

Cave-dwelling flying foxes in the Crater WMA. K. Tau, D. Wright

Ecology of long-beaked echidnas in the Crater WMA. M. Opiang, D. Wright

Conservation of New Guinea raptors. L. Legra, A. Mack

Pitohoui toxicity adaptations. J. Dumbacher, D. Levi-tis, S. Tomba, A. Mack

Nest boxes to mitigate tree cav-ity reduction effects. D. Warakai, A. Mack, D. Wright

RUSSIA Siberian tiger project. J. Goodrich, N. Reebin, V. Melnikov, E. Gishko, D. Miquelle, E. Smirnov, A. Astafiev

Monitoring program for the Amur tiger. D. Miquelle, U. Dunish-enko, D. Pikunov, V. Aramilev, P. Fomenko, G. Salkina, I. Niko-laev, V. Litvinov, I. Seryodkin

Resolving human-tiger conflicts in the Russian Far East. J. Goodrich, S. Zubtsov, N. Reebin, D. Miquelle

Using camera traps to monitor the Far Eastern leopard. A. Kostyria, V. Aramilev, A. Reebin, D. Miquelle

Managing hunting leases for effec-tive wildlife/tiger conservation. V. Aramilev, D. Miquelle

Tiger Friendly Certification: developing economic incentives for conservation. T. Lovdal, A. Breuer, D. Miquelle

Ecology of Siberian tigers and Amur leopards in Southwest Primorye. J. Goodrich, A. Kostryia, D. Miquelle

Veterinary training in wildlife health and developing a response team for carni-vore-human conflicts. C. Schoene, D. Armstrong, J. Goodrich, D. Miquelle

Transboundary planning and manage-ment of Chinese reserves for tiger and leopard conservation. E. Li, D. Miquelle, Y. Xie, A. Heydlauff

Conservation and management of the bears of Kamchatka. J. Paczkowski, I. Seryodkin, D. Miquelle

Blakiston’s fish owl research and conservation. J. Slaght, S. Surmach, D. Miquelle

TAJIKISTAN Four-country transboundary pro-tected area initiative (Afghanistan, China, Pakistan & Tajikistan). A. Dehgan, G. Schaller, P. Zahler

THAILANDConserving Indochinese tigers in Western Forest Complex of Tenasserim Range in >ailand. A. Pattanavibool, M. Umponjan, U. Karanth, Dept. of National Parks, Wildlife, and Plant Conservation

Conserving Asian elephant population and solving human and elephant conflicts in Kaeng Krachan National Park. P. Manopawitr, P. Pattanakaew, N. Khewwan, T. Chaloendong, S. Hedges, Dept. of National Parks, Wildlife, and Plant Conservation

Conservation of the agile gibbon and siamang in the Halabala Forest Complex, southern >ailand. A. Pat-tanavibool, Dept. of National Parks, Wildlife, and Plant Conservaton

Hornbill density and abundance at Key Sites in >ailand. A. Pat-tanavibool, S. Strindberg

VIETNAMHunting and wildlife trade re-search. S. Roberton

REGIONALAsian Elephant conserva-tion program. S. Hedges

CITES Monitoring the Illegal Killing of Elephants (MIKE). S. Hedges, A. Lynam

Protected Area staff training and capacity building. A. Lynam

Regional landscape ecology and GIS capacity building. E. Delattre

Network of Conservation Educators and Practitioners (NCEP). M. Rao

Tigers Forever. A. Rabinow-itz, C. Poole, A. Heydlauff, P. Clyne, P. Zahler, L. Hunter

Range-wide priority-setting for four Asian bears. K. Minkowski, E. Sanderson, K. Didier

Range-wide priority-setting for Asian Elephants. S. Hedges, P. Clyne, E. Sanderson, T. Bean

Setting priorities for the conserva-tion and recovery of wild tigers:

2005–2015. E. Sanderson, J. Forrest, G. Bryja, A. Heydlauff, T. O’Brien, J. Ginsberg

ARGENTINASea and Sky: A strategy for con-serving open ocean biodiversity in the SW Atlantic. C. Cam-pagna, V. Falabella, P. Filippo

Patagonia coastal zone conserva-tion strategies. G. Harris, P. Yorio, Fundación Patagonia Natural

Andean Patagonia Tehuelche Land-scapes: San Guillermo, Payunia/Auca Mahuida, Tromen. A. Novaro, S. Walker, R. Baldi, M. Funes

Magellanic penguin ecology and conser-vation at Punta Tombo. P. D. Boersma

Seabird ecology and conservation in Patagonia. P. Yorio, F. Quintana, E. Frere, P. Gandini, A. Schiavini

Patagonia Coast, Jason Islands research and conservation - Falklands/Malvinas. G. Harris

Ecology and conservation of the Huemul deer. A. Vila

Tapir ecology and conserva-tion. S. Chalukian

Natural history and wildlife conservation. W. Conway

Andean condor research and conservation. L. Jacome

Burrowing parrot research and con-servation. J. Masello, P. Quillfeldt

Areas important for the conservation of biodiversity in the Patagonian Steppe and Monte of Argentina. K. Didier, S. Walker, C. Chehebar

BELIZEWildlife research and protected areas planning in tropical for-ests. B. Miller, C. Miller

Neotropical bat conservation. B. Miller Monitoring jaguars in the Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary. B. Harmsen

BOLIVIAGreater Madidi Landscape Con-servation Program. R. Wallace, L. Painter, K. Lara, A. Llobet, R. Nallar, L. Rosas, E. Salinas, T. Siles

Jaguar monitoring in Madidi. R. Wallace, G. Ayala

Implementation of internal natural re-source regulations by Tacana commu-nities. K. Lara, R. Wallace, and CIPTA

Behavioral Ecology of the Bolivian Endemic Titi Monkey. J. Martinez

Integral Ecosystem Health Program. Field Vet Program. R. Nallar

Conservation and protected area management in eastern Santa Cruz. M. Painter, A. Noss, O. Castillo, D. Rumiz, E. Cuellar, L. Maffei, R.L. Cuéllar, R. Arispe

Jaguar monitoring in eastern Santa Cruz. A. Noss, L. Maf-fei, D. Rumiz, R. Arispe

Conservation of the Gran Chaco Region-al Public Goods. O. Castillo, A. Noss

Conservation and forestry develop-ment in the Chiquitano dry forest ecoregion. D. Rumiz, R. Arispe


Guanaco conservation in the Chaco of Bolivia and Paraguay. E. Cuéllar

Kaa-Iya initiative. O. Castillo, A. Noss, Z. Barahona, L. Maffei, R. Montaño

Ecology of the maned wolf. L. Emmons

Rancher outreach program. R. Arispe

Conservation of flamingos and wetlands in the Altiplano of Bolivia. O. Rocha (BIOTA)

Biodiversity research and conservation in the Greater Madidi Landscape. R. Wallace, L. Painter, H. Gomez

BRAZILMamirauá and Amanã Sustain-able Development Reserves—management and conservation. H. Queiroz, A.R. Alves

Sustainable finance in Ma-mirauá. R. Victurine

Piagaçu-Purus Sustainable Develop-ment Reserve. C. Pereira de Deus

Ecology and conservation of the endangered pied tamarin. E. Venticinque, F. Rohe

Amazon regional conserva-tion. E. Venticinque

Jaguar ecology and conservation in the Pantanal. S. Cavalcanti

Rancher Outreach Program. R. Boulhosa

Improving ranching efficiency to protect the biodiversity in the Brazilian Pan-tanal. A. Keuroghlian and F. Marques

Implementation of management programs for the black caiman in the Brazilian Amazon. J. >orbjarnarson

Birds of Brazil. M. Argel

CHILEConservation and research pro-gram for Tierra del Fuego. B. Saavedra, R. Medina, R. Muza

Conservation and research program for Bernardo O’Higgins National Park. B. Saavedra, A. Vila, P. Etchegaray

COLOMBIAEcology and conservation of biological diversity in the central Andes of Colombia. C. Murcia, G. Kattan

Conservation leadership and train-ing program and Ucamari Center for Excellence. C. Murcia, G. Kattan, Fundación EcoAndina

Design of a protected area system for the area of Riseralda / Technical Assis-tance-National Parks Unit. C. Murcia, G. Kattan, Fundación EcoAndina

Jaguar conservation and jaguar-livestock conflict in the Llanos. E. Payan

Regional planning for spec-tacled bear conservation in the

central Andes of Colombia. C. Valderrama, G. Bryja, G. Kattan

COSTA RICAEcology of white-lipped pec-caries and jaguars in Corcovado National Park. E. Carrillo

Consolidation of the National Protected Areas System. M. Boza

CUBAReptile research and conservation in coastal habitats. J. >orbjarnarson, R. Rodríguez Soberón, M. Alonzo Tabeth

Conservation of Cienaga de Zapata. J. >orbjarnarson, A. Chicchón

Conservation of the Cuban crocodile in the Zapata and Lanier Swamps, Cuba. J. >orbjarnarson

Population ecology and manage-ment of the American crocodile in Cuba. J. >orbjarnarson

ECUADOR Biodiversity research and conserva-tion in the Yasuni-Napo Landscape. E. Suarez, G. Zapata, V. Utreras

>e impact of hunting on mam-mal and bird density in the Yasuni-Napo Landscape, Ecuador. E. Suarez, S. Strindberg et al.

GUATEMALA Community-based conservation and biodiversity monitoring in the Maya Forest. R. McNab, A. Rodríguez, R. García, V.H. Ramos

Scarlet macaw ecology and con-servation. R. McNab

Institutional strengthening of Asociación Balam. R. McNab, B. Castellanos

PANAMAConservation of the Darien. A. Carr III, R. Samudio, J. Carrion de Samudio

PERUWildlife conservation in the Peruvian Amazon of Loreto. R. Bodmer, P. Puertas

Technical support to Tambo-pata protected areas complex authorities. R. Wallace

VENEZUELAConservation of the Caura River Watershed. J. Ochoa, M. Bevilacqua

Fish ecology, use, and conservation in the Caura Watershed. F. Daza

Conservation of the Para-guana Region. J. Ochoa

Ecology and habitat use of spec-tacled bears. I. Goldstein

Bárbara Saavedra, Director of WCS-Chile, plays the critical roles of scientist, manager, and spokesperson for WCS in one of the world’s most exciting conservation frontiers. Bárbara has been instrumental in the establishment of Karukinka, the 741,000-hectare wilderness on the island of Tierra del Fuego at the southern tip of South America. Cov-ered with beech forests, peat bogs, wetlands, and alpine meadows, the land parcel was a gift to WCS in 2004 from Goldman Sachs.

Born and raised in Chile, Bárbara received her PhD at the University of Chile and specializes in ecology and conser-vation. Meeting with government institutions while keeping WCS field activities running smoothly requires Bárbara to split her time between the WCS offices in Santiago, the capital, and Punta Arenas, the WCS base of field opera-tions for Karukinka and Bernardo O’Higgins National Park.

Bárbara’s studies of paleoecology and zooarchaeology are spurring the development of these disciplines among her peers. Deeply concerned about the effect of forest loss on the genetics, morphology, and reproduction of natu-ral wildlife populations, she is part of a team of scientists examining the human impact on rodents and other small mammals in Chile. In addition to her work for WCS, Bárbara has served as Secretary of the Ecological Society of Chile for the past five years.

Associate Conservation Zoologist Brian D. Smith has directed WCS-Marine’s Asian Freshwater and Coastal Cetacean Program since 2002. He concentrates on conserving species diversity and protecting critically endan-gered populations of river and coastal dolphins at sites across southern and Southeast Asia. Until recently, few resources had been devoted to conserving these top predators, but work in this region is vital, as Asia has the greatest number of threatened cetacean species.

In Myanmar, Brian collaborates with local fishermen who work cooperatively with the Ayeyarwady River’s criti-cally endangered Irrawaddy dolphins. These dolphins herd fish into fishermen’s castnets and feed on the fish that escape from the nets—a practice that benefits both the people and the dolphins. Irrawaddy dolphins have been threatened for many years by gold mining operations along the river and by gillnet and electric fishing, which can accidentally kill dolphins as well as deplete their prey. Through the work of WCS and the conservation commit-ment of the Government of Myanmar and communities along the Ayeyarwady, gold mining has been banned. A new protected area was declared in 2006 to preserve the dolphins and the cooperative fishery.

In Bangladesh, Brian and his team discovered a globally significant center of cetacean diversity in the Sundar-bans Delta. This prime habitat encompasses the world’s largest contiguous mangrove forest, stretching from Sundarbans National Park to a 3,500-foot-deep, undersea canyon known as the Swatch-of-No-Ground. The area teems with Indo-Pacific bottlenose, Ganges River, pantropical spotted, spinner, and Irrawaddy dolphins. There are also finless porpoises and possibly Bryde’s and fin whales. Brian and his partners are working to link the conservation of this outstanding region and the wildlife it supports to sustainable economic activities, such as dolphin-watching tours.



REGIONALAmazonian conservation. M. Painter, F. Marques, E. Venticinque

Monitoring and Evaluation Train-ing for the Amazon-Andes Conservation. D. Wilkie, S. Strindberg, K. Didier. G. Bryja

Flamingo ecology and conserva-tion. F. Arengo, P. Marconi, P. Gandini, O. Rocha, Grupo para la Conservacion de Flamencos

Conservation science train-ing. P. Feinsinger

Conservation of the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor. A. Carr III

Jaguar conservation program small grants. K. Conforti.

Paseo del Jaguar: Jaguar Corridor Project. A. Rabinowitz, L. Hunter, J. Polisar, K. Marieb, R. Salom, L. Maffei, N. Williams, Archie Carr III

SEASCAPE CONSERVATION Gloverʼs Reef Atoll, BelizeBelize coral reef monitoring and evaluation. T. McClanahan

Building a constituency for ma-rine conservation in Belize. J. Gibson, R. Graham

Conservation of spawning aggrega-tions on the Mesoamerican Reef. J. Gibson, S. Hoare, E. Sala

Coral reef ecology in the Ca-ribbean. B. Steneck

Glover’s Reef Living Seascape: safeguard-ing marine resources and rural liveli-hoods in Belize. J. Gibson, S. Hoare

Glover’s Reef Marine Research Station (GRMRS) – A resource for greater understanding of the Mesoameri-can Barrier Reef. A. Carr III, J. Gibson, S. Zelaya, D. Wesby, S. Hoare, A. Cros, B. Wainwright

Osprey management in Belize: gardening an uncommon, possibly threatened breeding bird to learn its local ecology. P. Spitzer, N. Clum

Promoting sustainable fisheries through demonstration of Glover’s Reef Marine Reserve. J. Gibson, C. Acosta

Vatu-i-Ra Seascape, FijiA technical advisory workshop to sup-port Fiji’s Vatu-i-Ra World Heritage Seascape. K. Walls, E. Rupeni

Conservation of the Vatu-i-Ra Seascape using ecosystem-based manage-ment. K. Walls, E. Rupeni

Invasive fire ants awareness for customs and quarantine personnel of Pacific Island nations. K. Walls, E. Rupeni

Saving Samoa’s eritically endan-gered ma’oma’o and manu-mea. K. Walls, E. Rupeni

Strengthening partnerships for Fiji seascapes ecosystems-based manage-ment. K. Walls, E. Rupeni

Karimunjawa Ma-rine National Park & Aceh, IndonesiaCoral reef monitoring and technical sup-port in Aceh, Indonesia. S. Campbell

Promoting effectiveness of MPA man-agement in Indonesia. S. Campbell

Rebuilding effective marine Man-agement at Karimunjawa Na-tional Park. S. Campbell

Kavieng Seascape, Papua New GuineaConservation of coastal marine ecosys-tems in Papua New Guinea. H. Perks

Coral harvesting for betel-nut lime pro-duction, Papua New Guinea. H. Perks

Antongil Bay, MadagascarConservation and sustainable resource use in the Antongil Landscape of Madagascar. H. Randriama-hazo, B. Randriamanantsoa

A Park of Sea & Sky, ArgentinaDeveloping an open ocean conserva-tion area for the protection of marine mammals and seabirds: A park of sea and sky. C. Campagna, V. Falabella

OCEAN GIANTS Marine MammalsAn integrated approach to humpback whale and marine mammal research and conservation: photographic identification, conservation genetics, acoustics, GIS analysis, satellite telemetry, and ecotourism. H. Rosenbaum, P. Ersts, Y. Razafindra-koto, S. Nguessono, C. Pomilla, S. Cerchio, M. Leslie (Madagascar)

Arctic bowhead whales. H. Rosenbaum (Arctic)

Assessing the impacts of artisanal gillnet fisheries on small cetaceans in the southwestern region of Madagascar. Y. Razafindrakoto, N. Andrianarivelo, S. Cerchio, H. Rosenbaum (Madagascar)

Assessing the marine mammal diversity of northern Angola. H. Rosenbaum, T. Collins (Angola)

Building capacity to develop and manage Myanmar’s protected areas. B. Smith

Cetaceans of Bangladesh: conserv-ing a regional hotspot of species diversity and abundance with local communities and institu-tions. B. Smith (Bangladesh)

Cetacean conservation and research in the Gulf of Guinea. H. Rosenbaum, T. Collins (Gulf of Guinea)

Conservation genetics of hump-back dolphins (Sousa spp.). H. Rosenbaum (Global)

Cetacean surveys for sound man-agement in the Daymaniyat Islands, Sultanate of Oman Marine Protected Area Sustainable Development Project. T. Collins

Determining conservation units and species/population relationships among cetaceans throughout their range. H. Rosenbaum (Global)

Developing sustainable conservation-oriented whalewatching. H. Rosenbaum, Y. Razafindraktoto, S. Nguessono, V. Rasoamampianina, S. Cerchio, T. Collins (Global)

Establishment of a protected area for Irrawaddy dolphins and a human-dolphin cooperative fishery in the Ayeyarwady River of Myanmar. B. Smith (Myanmar)

Field guides: Comprehensive guide to marine mammals of Madagas-car and the southwestern Indian Ocean and a comprehensive guide to marine mammals of the Gulf of Guinea. H. Rosenbaum, S. Cerchio, T. Collins (Madagascar)

Research and conservation of Atlantic humpback dolphins off the western coast of Africa. H. Rosenbaum, T. Collins (Gulf of Guinea)

Sea TurtlesEcology and migration of Bocas del Toro sea turtles. A. Mey-lan, P. Meylan (Panama)

>e Gabon sea turtle partnership for leatherback research and conservation, 2007–2008. A. Formia (Gabon)

Conservation of the hawksbill rookery in the Pearl Cays, Nicaragua. C. Lagueux, C. Campbell, W. McCoy (Nicaragua)

Conservation of marine turtles on the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua. C. Lagueux, C. Campbell (Nicaragua)

SharksConservation of top predators, including sharks and large fish in Belize. R. Graham (Belize)

Honduras whale sharks. R. Graham (Honduras)

Madagascar and East Africa whale sharks. R. Graham (western Indian Ocean)

Madagascar shark conservation. B. Randriamanantsoa (Madagascar)

Use of seamount habitat by economically important whale sharks and manta rays in the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary. R. Graham (United States of America)

SturgeonA workshop to develop and imple-ment research, education, and management plans for the conservation of Kaluga and Amur sturgeon. D. Erickson (Russia)

Marine migration and estuary use of green sturgeon. D. Erickson (United States of America)

Research for the recovery of Atlantic sturgeon in the Hudson and Altamaha rivers. D. Erickson (United States of America)

GLOBAL MARINE CONSERVATION AND CORAL REEF RESEARCH Marine ConservationWCS Global Marine Conserva-tion Strategic Planning Initia-tive. C. Recchia, L. Lauck

Mapping the marine human footprint. E. Sanderson, C. Rec-chia, L. Lauck, C. D’Agrosa.

Reef Ecosystems & Climate ChangeCoral reefs and climate change. A. Baker

Conservation research on coral reefs. T. McClanahan

Effects of bleaching on coral and fish communities in the western Indian Ocean. T. McClanahan

Global Coral Reef Conservation Program. A. Baker, S. Campbell, T. McClanahan, K. Walls, H. Perks

Coral Reef Policy>e effectiveness of community-based organizations in managing coastal resources: case study in the western Indian Ocean. T. McClanahan.

Enhancing community capac-ity for marine conservation in Kenya. N. Muthiga

CANADAConservation planning in On-tario’s Northern Boreal For-est. J. Ray, J. McDermid

Impact of development on freshwater fish in Ontario/Manitoba Northern Boreal Forest. J. McDermid

Genetic structure of lake sturgeon populations. J. McDermid

Wolverine and caribou research, conservation, and recovery in northern Ontario. J. Ray

Building capacity to use GIS as a tool for land-use planning among Ontario’s Northern First Nations. G. Woolmer

Human footprint analysis in the northern Appalachians. G. Woolmer

Trans-boundary conservation planning in the northern Appala-chians. J. Ray and G. Woolmer

Northeastern mesocarni-vore initiative. J. Ray

Big animals and small parks: implica-tions of wildlife distribution and movements for expansion of Nahanni National Park Reserve. J. Weaver

Ecological connectivity for the transboundary Lower Nahanni herd of woodland caribou. J. Weaver

Carnivores in the southern Canadian Rocky Mountains: core areas and con-nectivity across the Crowsnest High-way. J. Weaver, P. Paquet, and C. Apps

Conservation of lynx and snowshoe hares in logged landscapes of boreal British Columbia. D. Reid

Effects of a changing climate on the Arctic tundra food web. D. Reid

Pursuing biodiversity conservation opportunities in >e Peel water-shed strategic land-use planning process, northern Yukon. D. Reid

Mapping thinhorn sheep winter habitat suitability in northern British Columbia. D. Reid

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Tri-state New York Metropolitan Region Working with local planners to integrate biodiversity conservation in Con-necticut and New York (Croton-to-Highlands, Wallkill Valley, and Farmington Valley). M. Klemens, H. Gruner, N. Miller, J. Schmitz

Eastern Westchester Biotic Cor-ridor. M. Klemens

Public-private land stewardship in Rockefeller State Park Preserve and private lands. M. Klemens, N. Miller, K. Ryan, J. Vellozzi

Assessing needs and opportunities for biodiversity conservation through local land-use planning in New Jersey. M. Klemens, N. Miller, J. Schmitz


Counteracting the effects of sprawl through “Smart Growth” local land-use planning. M. Klemens

Conservation of amphibians and reptiles in the tri-state NY Metro Region. M. Klemens, H. Gruner, K. Ryan

Adirondacks Acid rain in the Adirondacks: An environmental history. J. Jenkins, K. Roy, C. Driscoll, C. Buerkett.

Boreal birds and their habitats in the Adirondacks. J. Jenkins, M. Glennon

Bicknell’s thrush on Whiteface Moun-tain Ski Area. M. Glennon, L. Karasin

Adirondack Communities and Conservation Program. Z. Smith, L. Karasin, H. Kretser

Adirondack Living Landscapes Program. M. Glennon, K. Didier

Adirondack Loon Conserva-tion Program. N. Schoch, A. Sauer, M. Glennon

Black Bear Education, Awareness and Research Program (BBEAR). Z. Smith, M. Glennon, L. Karasin

Conservation easements: management questions on maximizing ecologi-cal value. J. Jenkins, M. Glennon

Developing a waterfront revitalization strategy for the towns of Clifton and Fine. Z. Smith, L. Karasin, R. Curran

Ecological and social implications of low-density, exurban development in the Adirondacks. M. Glennon, H. Kretser

>e Champlain Hills of the Adirondacks: Understanding the biodiversity of the region. J. Jenkins

Great LakesLake Superior wolf conserva-tion. A. Treves, L. Naughton

Pacific WestWildlife, fire, and forest management. S. Zack, K. Farris, and partners

Effect of sudden oak death syndrome on wildlife in the Pacific West. K. Fischer, L. Hadj-Chikh

Ecology and conservation of the Pacific fisher on the Hoopa Valley Reserva-tion. S. Matthews and partners

Woodpeckers and snag dynamics. S. Zack, K. Farris, and partners

Riparian restoration, beavers, and song-birds. S. Zack, H. Cooke, and partners

Conservation of salmon-driven ecosystems. S. Zack

Arctic Coastal Plain Tundra nesting birds, predators, and de-velopment on the Arctic Coastal Plain. S. Zack, J. Liebezeit, and partners

Exploration of Biologically Special Areas in the National Petroleum Reserve. S. Zack, J. Liebezeit

Western Mountains Wolverine ecology and conservation. R. Inman, K. Inman, and partners

Cougar Ecology and cougar/wolf/bear conservation. T. Ruth, P. Buotte, and partners

Carnivore connectivity in the Centen-nial Mountains. J. Beckman

Pronghorn migration conserva-tion. J. Berger, K. Berger

Conservation in native communi-ties. J. Hilty, S. Grassel

Setting priorities for wildlife con-servation. C. Groves, B. Brock. A. Toivola, and partners

Corridor Conservation Ini-tiative. R. Ament

Ecology and Conservation of Sagebrush Steppe Wildlife, C. Groves and C. Jenkins

Impacts of motorized recreation on wildlife. R. Inman, C. Groves

Wildlife and energy develop-ment in the Rocky Mountains. J. Berger, K. Berger, J. Beckmann

Highway impact on wildlife on the Flat-head reservation. W. Maillet, J. Hilty

New MexicoNew Mexico black bear con-servation. C. Costello

RegionalMannahatta Project. E. Sanderson, T. Bean, A. Huron, J. Fein-berg, M. Boyer, V. Navab

>e ecological future of the North American bison. K. Redford, B. Weber, E. Sanderson, K. Minkowski, J. Hilty, E. Fearn, T. Bean, J. Berger

An evaluation of changing sea ice condi-tions and its effects upon the world’s largest terrestrial carnivore: working with federal polar bear scientists on the proposal to list polar bears. S. Bergen

Development of the large carnivore guild model. A. Rabinowitz

Gillian Woolmer has been bringing the power of computer mapping to WCS conservation programs since July 2000. Since then, Gillian has helped train more than 100 WCS field staff to use Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and satellite imagery. In addition, she was a member of the team that mapped the Human Footprint and the Last of the Wild in 2002.

In 2004, Gillian moved to Toronto to help launch WCS-Canada. As Assistant Director, she divides her time between financial man-agement, GIS training of First Nations, and conservation planning. Gillian collaborates with a group of conservation NGOs, land trusts, and foundations under the umbrella Two Countries, One Forest (2C1Forest) to create a conservation vision for the Northern Appa-lachian Ecoregion, a transboundary area extending from New York to Nova Scotia. To develop a visual understanding of the human landscape there, Gillian has adapted the Human Footprint mapping methodology to the ecoregion. This map helps local conservationists identify priority areas for protection and is a blueprint for conserva-tion action.

Comfortable with web-based technology, Gillian is leading a project to ensure the maps resulting from 2C1Forest, will be part of an interactive online atlas. This effort will put these maps and data directly into the hands of local people, conservationists, community groups, and government plan-ners so that the most important areas remain connected and protected.


CENTRAL New York / Washington, D.C. Design and development of the landscape species approach to site based conservation. K. Didier, S. Strindberg, A. Vedder, D. Wilkie, E. Sanderson, J. Forrest, G. Bryja

Casting for conservation actors: People, Partnerships and Wild-life. A. Vedder, D. Wilkie

People and Parks: Assessing the hu-man welfare impacts of establishing protected areas for biodiversity conservation. D. Wilkie

Monitoring of large wildlife directly through high spatial resolution remote sensing: experimental and in situ approaches. S. Bergen, E. Sanderson

Decision support for the Convention on Biological Diversity 2010 Goal: Guidance on the application of remote sensing techniques for measuring the rate of biodiversity loss. K. Didier, J. Forrest, S. Bergen, E. Sanderson

Applications of the Human Footprint to global conservation policy. E. Sand-erson, L. Kruger, J. Forrest, T. Bean

Species Conservation Planning Task Force, IUCN/Species Survival Com-mission. E. Sanderson, J. Robinson

Considering Human Rights in Conservation. K Svadlenak-Gomez, D. Wilkie, C. Ingram

Practical introduction to payments for ecosystem services. Forest trends, D.Wilkie, C. Ingram

Software tool for learning about pay-ments for ecosystem services. Forest trends, D. Wilkie, C. Ingram

Direct payments for wildlife conservation: a survey of ap-proaches within WCS. K Svadlenak-Gomez, D. Wilkie, C. Ingram

Natural Products Marketing 101 for enterprises in a conservation setting. A. Koontz, D. Wilkie, C. Ingram

Zoological Society of London collaboration. M. Hatchwell

Kaplan Awards Program for cat con-servation. L. Hunter, N. Williams

Conservation Leadership Pro-gramme. W. Banham, L. Duda

Graduate Fellowship Program (Beinecke African Scholarships, Christensen Conservation Leaders Scholarships, Robertson Big Cat Conservation Fellowships, Starr Tiger Conservation Fellowships). M.L. Penn, T. Parkinson

NGO Institutional Development Program. W. Banham, L. Duda

MBAs for Conservation Pro-gram. W. Banham, L. Duda

Research Fellowship Program. M.L. Penn, K. Mastro

Strategic Planning and Review Coordination (SPARC). J. Ginsberg, A. Vedder, co-chairs, R. Calamo, P. Clyne, J. Deutsch, E. Fearn, C. Groves, M. Hatchwell, K. Mastro, M. Painter, J. Palmer, C. Recchia

Species Strategy. M. Kinnaird, J. Fraser, K. Redford

Global Conservation Program Strategic Planning Team. C. Groves, chair-person, S. Atkinson, A. Chicchón, T. Clements, H. Crowley, L. Lauck, M. Kinnaird, M. Masozera, S. Osofsky, L. Painter, C. Recchia, S. Tressler, R. Victurine, B. Weber

In 2000, WCS Vice President for Science and Exploration George Schaller visited Iran to assess the wildlife situation. During the years of the Iranian Revolu-tion, rampant poaching of both cheetahs and their prey, compounded by habitat degradation from livestock grazing, pushed the Asiatic cheetah to near extinction. Probably only 60 to 100 of the cats remain in this last known Asiatic cheetah population.

Since Schaller’s initial efforts, WCS has engaged with Iran’s Department of En-vironment (DoE) to gain U.S. approval to visit cheetah habitats, hold workshops, and raise funds. This year, an international team of scientists led by Luke Hunter, Director of WCS-Great Cats, captured and fitted two Asiatic cheetahs with GPS (Global Positioning System) collars provided by the Zoological Society of London, a project partner. The two cheetahs were caught in the Bafgh Protected Area, which is also home to leopards, wolves, and striped hyenas—an ideal site for studying the large carnivore community.

Iranians are not prepared to say goodbye to this species and are justifiably proud that theirs is the only country in which the Asiatic cheetah survives. Very little is known about the ecological needs of cheetahs in Iran, but collaring these animals will provide important data for implementing conservation measures to ensure a long-term future for this critically imperiled species. This is a groundbreaking project on both an ecological and a political front: It is the first time a cheetah has been radio-collared in Asia and the first radio-tracking study in Iran. It also ushers in a new era for conservation in Iran.


Conservation is critical to the well-being of both humans and

wildlife. >e Public Affairs division helps make vital conser-

vation issues—such as climate change, avian influenza, and

biodiversity—relevant to people in their day-to-day decision-

making and involves WCS’s various audiences in its mission to

save wildlife and wild lands. WCS’s public gateways range from

worldwide attention of its groundbreaking partnership with

the autonomous Government of Southern Sudan, to a profile

of President and CEO Steve Sanderson and an overview of the

Gateways to Conservation campaign in the Wall Street Journal,

to a Newsweek cover story on the killing of mountain gorillas in

DRC’s Virunga National Park, to local media coverage of the

new Urban Assembly School for Wildlife Conservation in the

Bronx.

It was a particularly strong year for WCS public relations. By

far, the most extensive media coverage of the year was garnered

by the WCS discovery of a massive wildlife migration in South-

ern Sudan. Public Affairs and Global Conservation orchestrat-

ed an integrated campaign to announce the scientific findings,

which resulted in equally broad coverage of the relationship

with the new Government of Southern Sudan in international

and national news markets, a front-page article in "e New York

Times, and a feature on the PBS series “>e NewsHour with

Jim Lehrer.” A combined New York City and Washington,

D.C. media blitz showcased stunning images of the world’s

largest wildlife migration, which has survived decades of civil

war and atrocities. An event at National Geographic headquar-

ters and a privately hosted WCS dinner brought together key

Administration and Congressional officials and opinion leaders

from Sudan. Taking notice of this message of hope for a region

in crisis, the U.S. Government is providing new funding to

support WCS’s ongoing scientific work in Southern Sudan.

Meanwhile, Congressional officials expressed interest in bol-

stering U.S. government commitments to conservation strate-

gies that would fortify the National Park System in Southern

Sudan as a platform upon which to develop a Sudano-Sahel

regional conservation program.

>e BBC’s “Saving Planet Earth”—a television and Web

companion series to the epic, 13-part TV special “Planet

Earth”—featured WCS-India field conservationist Ullas

Karanth and the Tigers Forever program. It also highlighted the

efforts of WCS-Guatemala Director Roan McNab to improve

nesting opportunities for scarlet macaws. To date, “Saving

Planet Earth” has raised more than $2.5 million to help endan-

gered wildlife.

On PBS, “Journey to Planet Earth: Saving the Planet’s

Ocean Animals,” hosted by Matt Damon, featured an inter-

view with WCS Hunting and Wildlife Trade Director Eliza-

beth Bennett, and in “America’s Wild National Parks,” then

Senior Vice President of Living Institutions Richard Lattis dis-

cussed the importance of bison to the American West. Joel and

Kim Berger’s studies of the pronghorn migration were high-

lighted in a Travel Channel special, “Yellowstone: America’s

National Park.” Laurence Frank’s fieldwork with the lions of

Laikipia in Kenya was featured in a History Channel show that

looked at human/animal conflict in Africa.

In its September/October 2006 issue, Wildlife Conservation

magazine featured an article about WCS’s historical efforts to

save the American bison and its current role in the ecological

restoration of the species and its native prairie habitat. >e issue

coincided with the WCS announcement that it was reactivat-

ing the American Bison Society. In May 2007, WCS gathered

representatives of interested stakeholders in New Mexico to

seek agreement on a common vision for restoring the bison and

its ecosystem.

A new media darling swam into the spotlight this year: José

the beaver. Two WCS staff members discovered him living in

the Bronx River on Bronx Zoo grounds. >is marked the first

confirmed occurrence of a beaver within New York City limits

since colonial times. It also served as testimony to the improved

state of the river, thanks in large part to cleanup funding se-

cured by the beaver’s namesake: Bronx Congressman José E.

Serrano. >e story was covered by news media throughout the

world and highlighted by a “Talk of the Town” piece in "e

New Yorker magazine.

WCS receives significant support for its global field programs

through the U.S. Agency for International Development

(USAID) Biodiversity Program, as an implementing partner

of the Congo Basin Forest Partnership (CBFP), the Amazon

Basin Initiative, and other key conservation projects. >e Ad-

ministration’s FY’08 Budget recommended $114 million for

the USAID Biodiversity Program—about a 40 percent cut

Public


from the previous year. Restoring these funds was a top priority

for WCS. WCS President Steve Sanderson, the co-chairs of the

Congressional International Conservation Caucus Hal Rogers

(R-KY), John Tanner (D-TN), Ed Royce (R-CA), and Tom

Udall (D-NM), Public Affairs staff, and conservation partners

worked with world-renowned conservationist Jane Goodall,

film maker Josh Ponte, and grassroots supporters to convince

Nita Lowey (D-NY), Chair of the House Subcommittee on

Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs,

and Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Chair of the Senate Subcommittee

on State and Foreign Operations, to recommend restoring and

increasing the USAID budget for the Biodiversity Program,

CBFP, the Amazon, and continued resources to protect great

apes in central Africa.

Climate change policy is a top WCS priority in Washing-

ton. >e House and Senate both passed energy policy bills that

include measures to secure a strategic plan and federal resources

to address the impacts of global warming on wildlife in the

United States and globally. WCS succeeded in having the Mul-

tinational Species Conservation Fund, which is administered

by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, included as an eligible

federal program in the House-passed energy bill as well as in

the Senate climate change bill introduced by Jeff Bingaman

(D-NM). If enacted, this legislation could deliver as much as

$100 million in new federal funds to rhinos, tigers, elephants,

marine turtles, and other critically endangered species.

>is year, WCS led the worldwide efforts to monitor bird

flu around the world. >e Global Avian Influenza Network

for Surveillance (GAINS) partners—a unique collaboration of

federal agencies, academic institutions, conservation organiza-

tions, and public and animal health experts—are working in

28 countries to build capacity to detect this emerging infec-

tious disease. More than 100 million bird observations from

95 countries have been recorded and disseminated through

a publicly accessible database at www.gains.org. In “Letters

to the Editor” published in "e New York Times, WCS Field

Veterinarian and GAINS Director William Karesh empha-

sized advances and explained the need for continued vigilance

in tracking avian flu via GAINS even in the absence of major

outbreaks. Building on this success, WCS is campaigning

to expand this global health surveillance program to other

Above: New York City Council Speaker Christine C.

Quinn and Deputy Mayor for Government Affairs

Kevin Sheekey at the grand opening of the sea lion

pool and Astor Court at the Bronx Zoo.


zoonotic diseases in other species of wildlife. Federal legis-

lation to accomplish this has been championed by Senators

Joseph Lieberman (I-CT), Daniel Akaka (D-HI), and Sam

Brownback (R-KS), along with Representatives Rosa DeLauro

(D-CT) and Lowey. >e GAINS team has provided database

demonstrations on Capitol Hill and highlighted successes

such as building capacity among Afghani women to take and

process bird samples. >e legislation is gathering momentum

and awaits a floor vote in the House and committee action in

the Senate.

>is year, WCS was able to increase the operating support

it receives from New York City to approximately $20 million

and raise almost $48.690 million for capital projects at the

Bronx Zoo and the New York Aquarium. >is comes as good

news in a year of many changes at the City Council. As part of

WCS’s City Council Outreach Program, more than 90 WCS

staff volunteered to meet with or contact their council mem-

bers to urge restoration of cultural funding and support for

WCS budget priorities.

>anks to thousands of emails generated by WCS sup-

porters, New York State leaders passed a $250 million budget

for the Environmental Protection Fund (EPF), up 11 percent

from the previous year. As a result, New York’s open spaces,

air, water, biodiversity, endangered species, and environmen-

tal education-based living museums will be protected for an-

other year. An important part of the EPF, the Zoos, Botanical

Gardens and Aquariums (ZBGA) program also received an

increase to $8 million. ZBGA provides operating support to

New York’s zoos, botanical gardens, aquariums, arboretums,

and nature centers, including the Bronx Zoo and New York

Aquarium. WCS received over $2 million in ZBGA funding

this year and expects more in the coming year with the ex-

panded program.

A letter by Living Institutions Senior Vice President Robert

Cook to the editor of the Times Union (Albany) applauded

pending New York State legislation that was passed in Feb-

ruary. >e amendment allows New York State licensed and

board certified physicians to provide medical care, under the

supervision of a licensed veterinarian, to a list of nine species

of non-human primates at the ten premier non-profit zoos ac-

credited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums in cases in

which a veterinary specialist is not available.

Further reinforcing its reputation as a thought leader, WCS

this year expanded its use of op-eds and letters to the editor to

voice its opinions on current topics related to its mission. In

February, President and CEO Steve Sanderson’s opinion edi-

Above: Costume character José the beaver helps open

the Bronx Zooʼs Eco-Restroom at Mitsubishi Riverwalk.

Right: Community Liaison for Environmental and

Immigration Affairs Sidd Sanchez, WCS Public Affairs

Director Jan Kaderly, and Bronx River Alliance Director

Linda Cox participate in a second release of alewife

herring to restore the species to the Bronx River.


torial, “Superbowl Will Be Bad Time For Bonzo,” appeared

in the New York Daily News. >e piece discussed the negative

impacts to conservation resulting from the use of great apes in

advertising, focusing on the consequences of this practice dur-

ing Superbowl commercials, and offered practical alternatives.

In the op-ed “Expanded Bottle Bill Would be a Win-Win

for New York,” which appeared on March 28, 2007 in "e

Journal News (Westchester County), Senior Vice President of

Public Affairs John Calvelli discussed the revitalization of the

Bronx River as evidenced by the appearance of José the bea-

ver, the importance of New York’s Environmental Protection

Fund, and the benefits of the state’s proposed Bigger Better

Bottle Bill. Chairman of the Board David Schiff’s “Misuse of

the World’s Water Supply Puts Future at Risk” appeared in

July in the Chicago Sun Times.

Renowned actress and WCS Trustee Glenn Close discussed

her personal experiences with wildlife in Africa and supported

the critical need for the passage of the Great Cats and Rare

Canids legislation in “We Can’t Afford to Write Off Stars of

the Wild,” which was published in Roll Call, the newspaper of

Capitol Hill.

>is year, the Marketing Department conducted an extensive

search and selected a new advertising agency, Deutsch, Inc., to

assist WCS in maximizing its attendance-driving strategies. An

animated TV campaign supported by print, radio, and online

ads was launched in the spring to entice visitors to the Bronx

Zoo’s “Great Return: Sea Lion Homecoming and Astor Court

Renaissance.” >is campaign represented a significant strategic

departure from prior creative and media strategies.

Capitalizing on the popularity of trading cards with young

people, “Wild Cards” were developed as part of an in-park

marketing strategy to encourage repeat visitation. >e program

created three cards—sea lion, tiger, and python—that featured

fun facts about the cover animal and a discount offer for future

targeted attendance-driving events.

>e Private Events department had a record-breaking year,

generating more than $1 million in gross revenue. Events in-

cluded two major outings for Citigroup, a Valley Health Sys-

tems employee recognition day, a Goldman Sachs company-

family picnic, weddings, and bar/bat mitzvahs.


>e Corporate Partnerships Department launched three

new alliances: ZenSoy, UBS, and Royal Caribbean Internation-

al. Each partner has been actively engaged in environmentally

responsible activities, such as organic farming, carbon emis-

sions reduction, and onboard oceanographic research labs. >e

department is exploring with Royal Caribbean opportunities

on their ships, which include TV programming, children’s edu-

cational workshops, and distribution of Wildlife Conservation

magazine.

>e newly implemented Group Sales programs, aimed at

driving attendance, grew significantly. Tactics included on-line

ticketing for participating corporations, which during the year

increased from about 100 corporations to just over 1,000. >e

number of company outings, catered and non-catered, also

rose significantly as a result of an aggressive outbound market-

ing strategy. More growth is expected, as Group Sales expands

its outreach to local, national, and international travel and

tourism groups.

Prominent among the public events held at the five WCS

wildlife parks this year, “>e Great Return” linked the Bronx

Zoo’s popular sea lion exhibit with the historical and cultural sig-

nificance of the Astor Court restoration. >e thematic approach

linked our communications and marketing strategies for our

public audiences and varied media outlets throughout the spring.

>e month of June incorporated many promotional vehicles and

paid advertising and allowed for momentum to build, with spe-

cific public event programming centered on Astor Court.

Also in June, a press event kicked off the summerlong cel-

ebration of the 50th anniversary of the New York Aquarium at

Coney Island.

Below: WCS Chairman Emeritus David Schiff and New

York City Councilmember Domenic M. Recchia, Jr. at the

New York Aquariumʼs 50th anniversary celebration.


In 2002, WCS and the National Geographic Society (NGS) formed a landmark, five-year media and conservation partnership that has been invaluable in highlighting WCS staff and programs across all of NGS’s media platforms. Premiering in May 2007, The Last Eden was the third film from NGS about WCS’s role in the creation of a national parks system in Gabon. Narrated by WCS Trustee Glenn Close, this latest film featured the work of WCS-Gabon staff and the International Field Veterinary Program. The Last Eden was also broadcast on BBC in England, Canal + in France, and NHK in Japan and will play on international Air Gabon flights to and from Libreville. Production continued in Argentina and Chile for the NGS Special Tierra

del Fuego: Island at the End of the World, to pre-miere on PBS in 2008. And production began on a two-hour NG Channel special The Human

Footprint.

The October 2006 issue of National Geographic magazine spotlighted WCS International Field Vet William Karesh and the deadly Ebola virus. The January 2007 issue of National Geo-

graphic Adventure profiled George Schaller’s 50 years of service to the natural world. Schaller was awarded the magazine’s first Lifetime Achievement Award at the “Adventurer of the Year” celebration.

In March 2007, an article by WCS Senior Conservationist Mike Fay in National Geographic

magazine about the plight of elephants in Chad’s Zakouma National Park directed readers to the WCS website and brought in more than $100,000 to protect this endangered herd. In addition, WCS was one of four conservation organizations selected to share a percentage of the gross domestic box office revenue from the NG Feature Films and Paramount Classics film Arctic Tale.

Five stories about WCS staff and field sites were broadcast on the NGS/PBS series Wild Chronicles, and six WCS staff were interviewed for National Geographic “World Talk” on XM Satellite Radio and National Geographic Weekend on NPR.

Online, WCS received its own category of film clips on the broadband channel NGC Wild and was featured in more than 15 new stories on nationalgeographic.com

WCS and the National Geographic Society recently announced renewal of this important partnership, increased funding for Global Conservation programs, and committed to produce high-profile media with a strong conservation message.


Financial

>e Wildlife Conservation Society ended Fiscal Year 2007

in a strong financial position. Operating revenue and sup-

port exceeded expenditures by $1.8 million—the fourth

year in a row of operating surpluses. >is positive result

was achieved through strong private contributions and

government grant support and as well as sustained visi-

tor and related earned revenue at our wildlife parks. To-

tal WCS assets reached $883.8 million, as investment

funds and donor commitments increased substantially.

Operating revenue and support posted an aggregate 13

percent increase to a new high of $186.3 million. Private con-

tributions, federal, state, and other non-governmental grants

grew an impressive 18 percent to $73.6 million. Federal grant

support for the Global Conservation program through the

United States Agency for International Development, the U.S.

Fish and Wildlife Service, and other agencies is at a record level.

Attendance at the zoos and aquarium broke the four million-

visitor mark again this year. Audience-driven revenues—

income from gate and exhibit admissions and from visitor

services (food, merchandising, and parking)—totaled $48.7

million, a 10 percent increase and another record high. Rev-

enues from the membership program provided $9.6 million

for operations, growing 15 percent from the previous year. >e

City of New York provided $27.7 million for park operations

through the Department of Cultural Affairs and the Depart-

ment of Parks and Recreation. Investment income for opera-

tions totaled $20.1 million, a rise of $2.7 million or 15 percent,

thanks to strong investment returns over the past several years.

Operating expenditures totaled $184.6 million. Pro-

gram services expenditures and on-site visitor related costs

were $156.2 million, an increase of nearly 13 percent.

>is growth was driven by a 23 percent increase in expen-

ditures for Global Conservation, which totaled $62 mil-

lion. Expenditures in Living Institutions—the Bronx

Zoo, the New York Aquarium, and the City Zoos—were

$79.5 million, 6 percent higher than the prior year.

WCS is a labor-intensive organization and continues

to absorb increases in staff costs, most notably higher re-

quired pension contributions and other retiree benefits

and health insurance costs. Non-personnel expenses rose as

well, driven by spending on repairs and maintenance in our

parks and higher prices for goods and services. Administra-

tive and support services, including fundraising and mem-

bership, grew modestly and totaled $23.5 million. Support

services make up a lean 13 percent of the expense base.

In FY2002, WCS began to set aside a portion of unre-

stricted income in a facilities renewal fund to support with

recurring revenues a portion of the infrastructure, equip-

ment, and technology needs of our aging facilities. In

2007, $4.9 million was earmarked for these purposes.

Capital expenditures totaled $29 million, as WCS con-

tinues to make progress on its capital construction program,

2007 Operating Revenue$186.3 Million

Gifts and Grants

City of New York

Federal Agencies

Gate and Exhibit Admissions

Visitor Services

Memberships

InvestmentIncome

Other Income

3%

11%

5%

11%

15%

9%

15%

31%

2007 Operating Expenses and Plant Renewal Funding$184.6 Million

Living InstitutionsVisitor Services

Plant Renewal Funding (3%)

GlobalPrograms

Fundraising andMembership

Managementand General

Other Programs (1%)

3%4%

9%

7%

1%

33%

43%


which provides exhibit improvements, visitor amenities, and

supporting facilities infrastructure. On the Bronx Zoo cam-

pus, construction commenced on the José E. Serrano Center

for Global Conservation, which is the first phase of the C.V.

Starr Science Campus. >is new 43,000-square-foot facil-

ity will house the Global Conservation program and much

needed conference and meeting facilities. >e building was

designed to demonstrate both WCS’s leadership in conser-

vation and commitment to sustainable practices through

the incorporation of “green” architectural design and en-

vironmentally responsible operations. Restoration of the

historic Lion House and Astor Court continued, financed

by a combination of New York City and WCS funds.

Design work proceeded for improvements to the New

York Aquarium’s Main Hall and planned new shark ex-

hibit, as well as on new big cat exhibits slated for con-

struction at the three City Zoos—Central Park, Pros-

pect Park, and Queens. And to support its activities

around the world, WCS continued to make investments

in telecommunications and information systems.

WCS has a strong balance sheet, with total assets of $884 mil-

lion at the end of FY2007. Investment assets and donor pledges

of future support increased substantially. Pledges and federal

grant receivables exceeded $97 million, increasing 51 percent

from the previous year. Investment assets

rose by $74 million to a market value of

$536 million, including the WCS endow-

ment, which reached $469 million at the

end of the fiscal year. >e growth in total in-

vestment assets is driven by positive invest-

ment return, new gifts to endowment, and

the receipt of more private funds support-

ing WCS programs and capital projects.

>ese funds are invested in a well-diversi-

fied portfolio and produced a total return

of 17.1 percent for the fiscal year, beating

returns in major investment indexes.

Fiscal Year 2007 was a very success-

ful one for the Wildlife Conservation

Society. >e wildlife parks, Global Con-

servation activities, and Education pro-

grams continue to enjoy critical success

and record levels of donor support. At

the same time, WCS has strengthened its financial footing by

balancing operating and capital budgets and making substan-

tial improvements to the physical plant. Our partnership with

New York City is one of our most important and enduring as-

sets, and it has been an important contributor to this success.

WCS’s financial outlook is both exciting and challeng-

ing. Over the next several years, the organization will be clos-

ing out an ambitious capital construction program totaling

$326 million. WCS will have restored the historic heart of

the Bronx Zoo—Astor Court and the Lion House—adding

exhibits and visitor amenities; created the Center for Global

Conservation, a new and permanent home for our global pro-

grams; and dealt with pressing deferred maintenance needs.

All of these efforts, in combination with enhanced market-

ing and an improved guest services operation, should bol-

ster zoo and aquarium attendance and core revenues.

Since FY2000, WCS’s global conservation program has

nearly quadrupled in size—from $17 million then to $62

million in 2007. >is growth has been supported by private

contributions and federal grants. As WCS looks ahead, renew-

ing and increasing support for Global Conservation pro-

grams presents our most crucial fundraising challenge. >e

Gateways to Conservation Campaign supports these initia-

tives, and WCS looks forward to its continued success.

Growth in Expenditures for Global Conservation Activities

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REVENUE 2007 THOUSANDS 2006

Contributed $43,353 $42,682

Membership dues 9,684 8,253

Investment income 20,120 17,450

City of New York 27,746 26,831

New York State 3,476 2,413

Federal agencies 17,332 11,630

Non governmental organization grants 9,425 5,381

Gate and exhibit admissions 28,284 25,202

Visitor services 20,467 19,290

Education programs 1,478 1,734

Sponsorship, licensing, and royalties 3,621 2,473

Other 1,337 2,176

Total Revenue $186,323 $165,515

EXPENDITURES

Program Services

Bronx Zoo 50,006 47,735

New York Aquarium 13,352 11,829

City Zoos 16,162 15,253

Global Programs 62,007 50,271

Wildlife Conservation Magazine 1,106 1,169

Lower Bronx River Habitat Conservation 1,164 545

Total program services $143,797 $126,802

Visitor Services 12,401 11,801

Supporting Services

Management and general 16,554 16,268

Membership 2,449 2,503

Fundraising 4,470 4,545

Total supporting services $23,473 $23,316

PLANT RENEWAL FUNDING 4,900 2,700

TOTAL EXPENSES AND PLANT RENEWAL FUNDING $184,571 $164,619

Excess of Revenues Over

Expenses and Plant Renewal Funding $1,752 $896

A copy of the audited financial statement is available upon request.


ASSETS 2007 THOUSANDS 2006

Cash and cash equivalents 21,990 17,250

Accounts receivable 2,431 2,943

Receivable from the City of New York 7,084 4,739

Receivable from the State of New York 6,516 3,824

Receivable from Federal sources 40,064 35,430

Grants and pledges receivable 57,117 28,600

Inventories 1,396 1,430

Prepaid expenses and deferred charges 5,841 6,968

Investments 536,525 462,776

Amounts held in trust by others 2,072 1,984

Funds held by Bond Trustee 13,362 28,327

Property and equipment 189,373 174,473

Total Assets $883,771 $768,744

LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS

Accounts payable and accrued expenses 26,419 18,483

Annuity liability 2,741 2,719

Bonds payable 66,704 66,745

Post retirement benefit obligation 33,443 38,013

Total Liabilities $129,307 $125,960

Net Assets

Unrestricted:

Designated for long-term investment 224,999 168,623

Investment in property and equipment 136,994 136,055

Total unrestricted 361,993 304,678

Temporarily restricted 186,785 132,847

Permanently restricted 205,686 205,259

Total net assets $754,464 $642,784

TOTAL LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS $883,771 $768,744

A copy of the audited financial statement is available upon request.


Wildlife Conservation SAFARI!

Katharina Otto-Bernstein and Nathan

Bernstein, Darlene and Brian Heidtke, Allison

and Leonard Stern, Ann and Andrew Tisch,

Ann and Thomas Unterberg, and Priscilla

and Ward Woods co-chaired WCSʼs annual

spring gala—Wildlife Conservation SAFARI!

Madagascar—which was held on May 17 at

Central Park Zoo. Guests enjoyed cocktails

around the sea lion pool before dining

in two Madagascar-themed tents—Spiny

Deserts and Tsingy Cliffs. Christieʼs Inc.

auctioneer Richard Brierley presented this

yearʼs successful silent auction, featuring two

Malagasy crocodiles.


Opposite page, clockwise from top left: WCS Trustee and Gala

Co-Chair Andrew Tisch, WCS President and CEO Steve Sanderson,

and Gala Co-Chair Ann Tisch; Ashley Schiff, WCS Chairman Emeritus

David T. Schiff, and Lisa Schiff; Jane Alexander and WCS Trustee

and Gala Co-Chair Ann Unterberg; WCS Trustee and Gala Co-Chair

Allison Stern and Gala Co-Chair Leonard Stern.

This page, clockwise from top left: Gordon Pattee, WCS Trustee

Dailey Pattee, WCS Trustee Howard Phipps, Jr., and Mary Phipps;

WCS Trustee Barbara Zucker and Donald Zucker; WCS Trustee Anita

Keefe and Luke McCarthy; Deborah Norville and WCS Trustee and

Gala Co-Chair Katharina Otto-Bernstein; Ambassador of Madagascar

to the U.N. Zina Andrianarivelo-Razafy, Elise Andrianarivelo-Razafy,

and WCS Chair of the Board and Gala Co-Chair Ward W. Woods.


An Evening at the

An Evening at the Central Park Zoo was co-chaired

by WCS Junior Committee members Christopher

Manice, Mary Dailey Pattee, and Diana Townsend-

Butterworth. This lively Madagascar-themed event was

held on May 17. The Conservation Council welcomed

more than 1,000 guests who were found sampling the

exotic fare, dancing to music provided by DJ Tom Finn

in the Masoala tent, and enjoying cocktails by the sea

lion pool.

Clockwise from top left: Sylvana Soto-Ward

and Luisana Mendoza; Christie Schiff and Jack

Fennebresque; Devon Rodonets, Emily Broeman, and

Ashley Knowlton; Anya Assante, Olga Eva Baczynska,

Charlotte Bocly, Philip Gaucher, Darcy Jones, and

Alixe Laughlin.


The Explorersʼ Party, held on May 23 at Central Park Zoo, was

co-chaired by Faith Coolidge and Juliette Janssens, who welcomed

Uma Thurman as Honorary Chair. More than 250 families joined

the festivities. Many thanks to the Grandparents Committee—Louise

and Edgar Cullman, Lucy and Mike Danziger, Lisa and David

Schiff, and Judy and Michael Steinhardt—who underwrote this

important event to support WCSʼs education programs.

Clockwise from top left: Explorersʼ Party Co-Chair Juliette

Janssens, Explorersʼ Party Honorary Chair Uma Thurman, and

Explorersʼ Party Co-Chair Faith Coolidge; Jessica Lowrey-Habib,

Whitney Gaeta, Crosby Gaeta, Maggie Habib, Piper Habib;

Kelly and Maddie Mallon; Grandparents Committee Member

Lucy Danziger, Grandparents Committee Member Edgar Cullman,

Sameena Danziger, Uma Thurman, Jim Breheny, WCS Life Trustee

and Grandparents Committee Member Louise Cullman, Sheena

Danziger, and Sunaina Danziger.

Explorers’


Dinner by the

At Dinner by the Sea, held on September

20 at the Water Club in New York City,

Paramount Classics received the 2007

Conservation Award for releasing Arctic

Tale, an epic wildlife adventure that explores

the vast world of the Great North. The

Wildlife Conservation Society is one of four

groups receiving a percentage of the filmʼs

lifetime domestic box office revenue. Two-

hundred guests attended the benefit for the

New York Aquarium, and enjoyed cocktails,

dinner, and a silent auction.

Clockwise from top left: Darlene Heidtke,

WCS Chair of the Board Ward W. Woods,

WCS Trustee Coty Sidnam, WCS Trustee and

Dinner by the Sea Committee Chair Brian

Heidtke, and WCS President and CEO Steve

Sanderson; Dinner by the Sea Committee

Member Terry Mitchell and Terri Spencer

Mitchell; WCS Senior Vice President of

Public Affairs John Calvelli, Lindsay Frank

accepting honorary award for Paramount

Classics, Steve Sanderson, WCS Senior Vice

President and General Director of Living

Institutions Robert Cook, WCS Curator of

Aquatic Health Sciences and Living Systems

Kate McClave; Vivian and Stanley Picheny.


Conservation Patrons provide vital support for the Wildlife

Conservation Societyʼs work to save wildlife and wild places

around the world. In recognition of annual gifts of $1,500

or more, Conservation Patrons enjoy exclusive access to our

facilities and programs, expert-led tours of our zoos and

aquarium, and special events with our curators, scientists,

and program specialists. This year, the Conservation Patrons

Program hosted four special events: An African Morning,

highlighting the Bronx Zooʼs African Wild Dogs and Congo

Gorilla Forest exhibits; Penguins, Polar Bears and Pinnipeds, at

the Central Park Zoo; WCS at Work: Karukinka and Beyond,

which focused on our conservation work in Tierra del Fuego and

Patagonia; and Sea Lions Rock!, celebrating our beloved sea

lionsʼ return to the Bronx Zooʼs newly-renovated Astor Court.

Above: WCS field scientists Graham Harris, Barbara

Saavedra, and Marcella Uhart—the featured speakers at WCS

at Work: Karukinka and Beyond—along with WCS President and

CEO Steve Sanderson. Right: Conservation Patrons Susan and

Horace Crary, Jr. and family listen to a keeper chat during An

African Morning at the Bronx Zoo.

Conservation


Annual

In March 2006, WCS launched a new

annual stakeholders meeting at Rockefeller

University with “Gateways to Conservation

2006: Global Strategy Session.” Through this

new public meeting, WCS aims to engage its

audience in the most pressing conservation-

related issues of the day, from global

conservation to science education in New

York City.

WCS continued this model with “Gateways

to Conservation 2007: The Future of

Conservation.” Discussions centered on

issues from global wildlife health surveillance

to the impact of climate change on wildlife

conservation, and from the connection

between zoo collections and the wild to

scenarios of conservation in the future.

WCS will continue to engage the public in

these critically important issues. Planning is

already well under way for “Gateways to

Conservation 2008: The State of the Wild,”

to be held in April 2008.

Ultimately, the goal of the WCS annual

meeting is to create a strategic dialogue with

our public, which will lead to envisioning

a future in which humans and wildlife live

together sustainably.

Pictured (top to bottom): Bob Cook, Joan

Oestreich, Coty Sidnam, Emma Pucci; David

Schiff, Isabella Rosselini, Ward Woods; Steve

Sanderson, Liz Bennett, Glenn Close, John

Robinson.


The Wildlife Conservation Society Institute is the WCS think tank for conservation strategies. This

year, the Futures Group scenario planning exercise explored how social, climate, and technological

changes could impact the WCS mission in the next 20 years. WCS staff and consultants from Bio-

era, a private research and advisory firm, developed six scenarios for possible WCS responses to

potential global situations. These were presented to staff and trustees at the April 2007 Gateways

to Conservation event and are published online, at www.wcs.org/sw-our_mission/164912.

The American Bison Society (ABS), a cross-institutional project, continues to support the

ecological restoration of bison from Alaska to Chihuahua, Mexico, and to build momentum through

a growing network of public and private stakeholders. This year, ABS worked on several projects

with a broad range of partners to resolve constraints to bison restoration and laid the groundwork for restoration

site identification and public awareness campaigns.

The Institute identifies challenges to conservation and coordinates a WCS response. Protected areas and human

livelihoods is such an issue, and the Institute held the second workshop on this subject with 20 international

experts. Proceedings of the first workshop, Protected Areas and Human Displacement: A Conservation

Perspective, are available at www.wcs.org/wcspubs/science.

This year, the WCS Public Research and Evaluation Program analyzed the human dimensions of conservation

work. The group studied why people visit zoos, evaluated the effectiveness of the educational Jaguars Forever

program, and worked closely with WCS Public Affairs and Education.

WCS

Th


($1 MILLION AND ABOVE)

INDIVIDUALS Mr. and Mrs. Rand V. Araskog

Mrs. Vincent Astor*

George F. Baker III*

Mr. and Mrs. Frederick W. Beinecke

Eleanor Briggs

Guy Cary*

C. Diane Christensen and Jean Pierret

Liz Claiborne* and Art Ortenberg

Mr. and Mrs. J. Michael Cline

Left: WCS Life Trustee

Joan Tweedy and WCS

Trustee Brad Goldberg

With deep appreciation, the Wildlife Conservation Society acknowledges the extraordinary support of the following donors. The cumulative total contributed by each of these individuals, foundations, and corporations has significantly strengthened our efforts to save wildlife and wild places. We are enormously grateful for their enlightened and inspiring generosity.

Jonathan L. Cohen

Mr. and Mrs. Edgar M. Cullman

Mrs. Charles A. Dana, Jr.

Mr.* and Mrs.* John Elliott, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Gary C. Fink

William E. Flaherty

Valerie Gates

Mr. and Mrs. Bradley L. Goldberg

Enid A. Haupt*

John R. Hearst, Jr.

Darlene and Brian Heidtke

Estate of Jack R. Howard

>e Irwin Family

Betty Wold Johnson and Douglas F. Bushnell

Daphne and >omas Kaplan and the Lillian Jean Kaplan Foundation

Anita and Harry* KeefeMr.* and Mrs. Frank Y. LarkinMr. and Mrs. Martin LiptonWilliam B. LloydEdith McBeanAmbrose MonellGordon and Betty MooreDrs. Martin Nash and Jack Hennigan

>e Nichols FamilyMr. and Mrs. Gordon B. PatteeMrs. Milton Petrie>e Perkin FamilyJosie and Julian RobertsonLaurance S. Rockefeller*Susan and Jack RudinKatherine T. Ruttenberg>e Schiff FamilyVirginia and Warren SchwerinCaroline N. Sidnam Mr. and Mrs. Michael SteinhardtAllison and Leonard SternDr. Judith P. SulzbergerPamela M. >ye >e Families of Laurence A. and Preston R. Tisch

Joan O. L. TweedyMr. and Mrs. >omas UnterbergSue Erpf Van de BovenkampRobert W. WilsonEstate of Martha Daly WolfsonWard W. and Priscilla B. WoodsBarbara and Donald ZuckerSix anonymous donors

FOUNDATIONSBlue Moon Fund>e Bodman Foundation>e Christensen FundLiz Claiborne/Art Ortenberg Foundation

Conservation InternationalConservation International-Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund

>e Cleveland H. Dodge Foundation, Inc.

>e Doris Duke Charitable Foundation

Horace W. Goldsmith FoundationCharles Hayden FoundationWilliam Randolph Hearst Foundation


>e Heckscher Foundation for Children

Homeland Foundation, Inc./E. Lisk Wyckoff, Jr.

Robert Wood Johnson Jr. Charitable Trust

>e John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and ExxonMobil Save >e Tiger Fund

National Geographic SocietyStavros S. Niarchos FoundationEdward John Noble Foundation, Inc.

>e David and Lucile Packard Foundation

Panthera, supported by J. Michael and Pamela Cline and the Family of >omas S. Kaplan

Pattee Charitable Lead Trust>e Howard Phipps Foundation>e Jay Pritzker Foundation>e Prospect Hill Foundation, Inc.Robertson FoundationDerald H. Ruttenberg Foundation>e Starr Foundation

CORPORATIONS Bristol-Myers Squibb CompanyConsolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc.

Goldman Sachs Charitable FundShell Exploration & Production Company

>e Walt Disney Company Foundation

($250,000 TO $999,000)

INDIVIDUALS Mr.* and Mrs. Russell B. AitkenMr. and Mrs. Jeffrey R. AndersonEstate of Ruth C. ArpsJason* and Susannah BergerHarry BettisLaurie F. Michaels and David Bonderman

Harvey and Heidi BookmanColeman P. BurkeGilbert Butler Stanley and Pamela ChaisKatherine L. and Peter R. DolanMr. and Mrs. C. Sims FarrCandice and John FrawleyElizabeth Freed/>e Freed Foundation

Dr.* and Mrs. Henry Clay Frick II

*deceased

>e Ford Foundation

Regina Bauer Frankenberg Foundation

>e Helen Clay Frick Foundation

Francis Goelet Charitable Trust

Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund

>e Marc Haas Foundation

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

>e Jeniam Foundation

>e Jeffery Trust

Kerzner Marine Foundation

Lady Kinnoull’s Trusts

F.M. Kirby Foundation, Inc.

Leon Lowenstein Foundation, Inc.

>e Henry Luce Foundation, Inc.

Margot Marsh Biodiversity Foundation

McBean Family Foundation

Richard King Mellon Foundation

>e Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

William T. Morris Foundation, Inc.

Henry and Lucy Moses Fund, Inc.

M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust

>e New York Community Trust

>e New York Community Trust-Nancy G. and C. Richard MacGrath Fund

Oak Foundation USA

>e Overbrook Foundation

>e Pew Charitable Trusts

>e Pew Fellows Program in Marine Conservation

>e Picower Foundation

>e Roe Foundation, Inc.

May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, Inc.

Sally and Julius Smolen Foundation, Inc.

>e Sperry Fund

>e Summit Foundation

Surdna Foundation

Eugene V. and Clare E. >aw Charitable Trust

>e Tinker Foundation, Inc.

Trust For Mutual Understanding

Turner Foundation, Inc.

Wallace Global Fund

Wilburforce Foundation

Norman and Rosita Winston Foundation, Inc.

World Wildlife Fund

Zoo Zürich

Two anonymous donors

CORPORATIONS BP International

Citigroup Foundation

Liz Claiborne Foundation

Ernst & Young LLP

Independence Community Foundation

Merrill Lynch & Co.Mitsubishi Corporation Foundation for the Americas

Morgan Stanley>e New York Times Company Foundation

>e Pfizer FoundationRockefeller Group International, Inc.

>e Tiffany & Co. Foundation

The Wildlife Conservation Society thanks the following donors for their generous contributions made between July 1, 2006 and June 30, 2007. These gifts provided vital funding for the programs and activities —in New York City, across the United States, and around the world—that support our mission to save wildlife and wild places.

$100,000 AND ABOVEMr. and Mrs. Jeffrey R. AndersonMr. and Mrs. Frederick W. Beinecke

Blue Moon FundLaurie F. Michaels and David Bonderman

Harvey and Heidi BookmanEleanor Briggs>e Howard G. Buffett FoundationButler Conservation FoundationC. Diane Christensen and Jean Pierret

Liz Claiborne/Art Ortenberg Foundation

J. Michael and Pamela ClineJonathan L. CohenConservation InternationalConservation International-Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund

Conservation International-Global Conservation Fund

Estate of Norma E. CosseyMr. and Mrs. Edgar M. CullmanLucy C. DanzigerSarah K. de Coizart Article TENTH Perpetual Charitable Trust

>e Doris Duke Charitable Foundation

Earth Share/Environmental Federation of America

Estate of Eleanor T. ElliottWilliam E. Flaherty

Edwin F. Gamble Charitable Lead Trust

Mrs. Roswell Gilpatric*

Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Goelet

Paul A. Gould

Kathy and Alan Greenberg

Mr. and Mrs. Alexander S. Haig

Judith Hamilton

Estate of Erwin Herzog

Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Kean, Jr.

Elyssa Kellerman

Monica M. Krick

Estate of Dr. Ezra Kulko

Dana and Lawrence Linden

Teresa E. and Robert D. Lindsay

Susan Lyall

Estate of Marie E. Markus

Mr. and Mrs. Roman Martinez IV

Estate of Ann Luana Martinez

Ida Rossi di Montelera

Mr. and Mrs. George K. Moss

Carl A. Navarre

Katharina Otto-Bernstein

Wendy and Henry M. Paulson, Jr.

Jonathan Rinehart

Guy G. Rutherfurd

Agnes Scholl Credit Shelter Trust

Walter and Jeanne Sedgwick

Mr. and Mrs. Binkley C. Shorts

Mary John Siphron

Estate of Everett S. Steinmetz

Mr. and Mrs. Eugene V. >aw

Daniel K. >orne

Hans P. Utsch

Jonathan P. Vannini

Mr. and Mrs. Alan N. Weeden

Estate of Edwin L. Weyer

Mr. and Mrs. Samuel H. Wolcott, III

Estate of Martha Daly Wolfson

Four anonymous donors

FOUNDATIONS21st Century Tiger

Alexander Abraham Foundation

>e Barker Welfare Foundation

>e >eodore H. Barth Foundation, Inc.

>e Bay and Paul Foundations

Booth Ferris Foundation

>e Howard G. Buffett Foundation

Mary Livingston Griggs and Mary Griggs Burke Foundation

>e Louis Calder Foundation

Conservation International-Global Conservation Fund

Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation

Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation

Flora Family Foundation


Dr.* and Mrs. Henry Clay Frick IIMelinda B. FrostValerie GatesMr. and Mrs. Robert G. GoeletFrancis Goelet Charitable TrustRichard and Rhoda Goldman Fund Judith HamiltonJohn R. Hearst, Jr.Darlene and Brian HeidtkeHomeland Foundation, Inc./E. Lisk Wyckoff, Jr.

>e Irwin FamilyDaphne and >omas Kaplan and the Lillian Jean Kaplan Foundation

Elyssa KellermanKerzner Marine Foundation>e John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. Darryl MallahEstate of Marie E. MarkusEdith McBeanWendy P. McCaw FoundationMr. and Mrs. Eugene R. McGrath>e Ambrose Monell FoundationGordon and Betty Moore Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. George K. MossNational Fish and Wildlife Foundation

National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and ExxonMobile Save >e Tiger Fund

National Geographic Society>e New York Community Trust>e New York Community Trust-Nancy G. and C. Richard MacGrath Fund

Katharina Otto-Bernstein>e David and Lucile Packard Foundation

>e Howard Phipps Foundation>e Jay Pritzker FoundationJosie and Julian RobertsonSusan and Jack RudinKatherine T. Ruttenberg/>e Ruttenberg Family

Roger and Vicki Sant/>e Summit Foundation

>e Schiff FamilyWalter and Jeanne SedgwickCaroline N. Sidnam>e Starr FoundationEstate of Everett S. SteinmetzAllison and Leonard SternDr. Judith P. SulzbergerPamela M. >ye>e Families of Laurence A. & Preston R. Tisch

Andrew H. and Ann R. Tisch Foundation

Wilburforce Foundation

Robert W. WilsonKen Wollenberg* and Barbara Lee Ebs

Estate of Martha Daly WolfsonWard W. and Priscilla B. WoodsWorld Wildlife FundZoo ZürichBarbara and Donald Zucker Foundation

Two anonymous donors

$25,000 TO $99,99921st Century TigerNancy Abraham and Arnold MossEllen Adams and Jonathan SheerAmerican Museum of Natural History, Center for Biodiversity and Conservation

Arcus FoundationElinor Patterson Baker TrustJohn Banovich>e Bay and Paul FoundationsCynthia and Ronald BeckSusanna BergerBobolink FoundationRon and Susan Briggs>e Bromley Charitable Trust>e Bullitt FoundationMr. and Mrs. Coleman P. BurkeChais Family Foundation>e Chicago Zoological SocietyGlenn CloseColumbus Zoological Park Association, Inc.

Conservation International-Center for Applied Biodiversity Science

Estate of Leonard CossackCoypu FoundationKatherine L. and Peter R. DolanHarold and Esther Edgerton Family Foundation

>e Eppley Foundation For Research

Judith and David EpsteinArmand G. Erpf FundFlora Family Foundation>e Fludzinski FoundationJane Fraser Fulcher>e Freed Foundation, Inc.Charles Fritz IIIEdwin F. Gamble Charitable Lead Trust

Mark and Joshua Ginsberg for the Estate of William R. Ginsberg

Alexandra Gardiner GoeletMr. and Mrs. Bradley L. GoldbergHorace W. Goldsmith Foundation

>e Marc Haas FoundationHagedorn FundMr. and Mrs. William H. Hamm III

Albert and Didy HartogCharles Hayden FoundationEstate of Maxine HofferHudson River Foundation for Science and Environmental Research, Inc.

Indianapolis Zoological Society, Inc.JJJ Charitable Foundation>e Jeniam FoundationBetty Wold Johnson and Douglas F. Bushnell

Mr. and Mrs. Paul T. Jones IIHenry P. Kendall FoundationBert G. KerstetterMonica M. KrickLady Kinnoull’s TrustsMr. and Mrs. James M. Large, Jr.Mark Laxer and Sara LourieBokara LegendreLinden Trust for Conservation>e Lipton FoundationWilliam B. LloydMr. and Mrs. Donald ManocherianMargot Marsh Biodiversity Foundation

Estate of Ann Luana MartinezZara McDonaldJohn D. Mitchell>e Moriah FundMr. and Mrs. Lester S. Morse, Jr.Henry and Lucy Moses Fund, Inc.>e Curtis & Edith Munson Foundation

>e Nature ConservancyEdward John Noble Foundation, Inc.

Oak Foundation USAEstate of Erin M. O’BrienDiane and David O’BrienOcean Park Conservation Foundation

>e Overbrook FoundationMr. and Mrs. Gordon B. PatteePhiladelphia Zoo>omas and Zaharo Plant>e Christopher Reynolds Foundation

Jonathan RinehartMr. and Mrs. E. John Rosenwald, Jr.Shikar Safari Club International Foundation

Sally & Julius Smolen Foundation Inc.

Daniel K. >orneKate Hagerman->ye and John F. >ye

>e Tinker Foundation, Inc.>e Frances K. Trees TrustTrust For Mutual UnderstandingTurner Foundation, Inc.

Mr. and Mrs. >omas UnterbergVan Tienhoven Foundation for International Nature Protection

>e G. Unger Vetleson FoundationWallace Global FundMr. and Mrs. Alan N. WeedenWoodland Park Zoological SocietyZoological Society of LondonSix anonymous donors

$10,000 TO $24,999American Society of Primatologists American Zoo and Aquarium Association, Conservation Endowment Fund

Carl B. Anderson III Dr. Amy I. Attas and

Avocet Charitable Lead Unitrust

>e >eodore H. Barth Foundation, Inc.

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bendheim

Alyse B. Bogert

Reverend and Mrs. C.

Catherine Cahill and William Bernhard

Dr. Irene Cannon-Geary

Cleveland MetroparksGladys G. Cofrin FundMadeleine and Jerry Cohen

Carlos A. CordeiroMr. and Mrs. Arthur CourtAndrew Currie Dallas Zoological SocietyMrs. Charles A. Dana, Jr.Sarah K. de Coizart Article TENTH Charitable Trust

>e Deshpande Foundation>e Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation Inc.

>e Caleb C. and Julia W. Dula Educational and Charitable Foundation

>e Emerald FoundationJane V. Engel

Katharine G. Frase and

Global Heritage FundRobert Gardiner Goelet>e Stewart & Constance


Dr. Joyce Griffin-Sobel

Mary Livingston Griggs and Mary Griggs Burke Foundation

Caroline H. HallMary W. Harriman FoundationGladys and Roland Harriman Foundation

Karen Haycox>e Henry Foundation, Inc.

Mr. and Mrs. Tim HixonHosford Family FoundationInternational Elephant Foundation

Estate of Reintraut E. Jonsson

Anita L. Keefe>e John R. Kennedy FoundationRichard P. Krasnow and

Estate of Virginia G. Lecount

>e Lincoln Park Zoological SocietyCarolyn Lloyd-CohenGeorge C. and Jennifer West LodgeJames J. and Marianne B. Lowrey Foundation

Marine Ventures Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Roman Martinez IVJudith McBeanWilliam B. McClatchy

Morgan Family FoundationNatural History Museum of the Adirondacks

Mr. and Mrs. Carl A. Navarre, Jr.New York City Environmental Fund of the Hudson River Foundation

Nichols Foundation, Inc., in memory of Charles W. Nichols

Heidi NitzeNorth of England Zoological Society

Dr. and Mrs. Fernando Nottebohm

Olympic Regional Development Authority

Open Space Institute Inc.

Overhills FoundationPanaphil FoundationPKD TrustGeneroso Pope Foundation

Hilary Geary Ross and Wilbur Ross, Jr.

Speckhard-Knight Charitable Foundation

>e Seth Sprague Educational and Charitable Foundation

>e Stebbins Fund

John M. StephensonSurdna FoundationTapeats Foundation

Turtle Survival Alliance FoundationHank Uberoi and Angela

Richard and Virginia Voell Family Fund

Alexander H. Watson

W. Larry WestbrookWestlake Foundation

Wildlife Advocacy Project

Mr. and Mrs. Samuel H.

Wolcott, III

Wyss Foundation

Six anonymous donors

$5,000 TO $9,999>e Adirondack Forty-Sixers, Inc.

Jane Alexander and Edwin Sherin

Audubon International

Kathleen C. Barclay

Jeffrey L. Berenson

Vani and Jayaram Bhat

Mary S. Boardman

Mr.* and Mrs. Simon Poyta

Jack & Pearl Resnick Charitable Trust No. >ree

Todd A. Robinson

Mr. and Mrs. >eodore

>e William P. and Gertrude

Virginia and Warren Schwerin

Shared Earth Foundation

>e Peter Jay Sharp Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. Binkley C. Shorts

>e Sidney, Milton and Leoma Simon Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Siphron

Laurie M. Smith and Stephen C. Pratt

*deceased


Brevard Zoo

Ambassador and Mrs. W.

Canyon Creek Foundation>e Carter FundYvon ChouinardMr. and Mrs. Kenneth K. CoeAbigail Congdon and Joseph Azrack

>e Cowles Charitable TrustBobbie CrosbyMr. and Mrs. Roderick

Mr. and Mrs. Edward V. DardaniDenver Zoological Foundation

>e Cleveland H. Dodge Foundation, Inc.

Strachan Donnelley, Ph.D.

Mr. and Mrs. Robert EsnardEstate of Diane J. Evans

Joseph F. FeakMr. and Mrs. Richard Flintoft

>e Jane Goodall Institute for Wildlife Research

>e Grodzins Fund

Hoch 2003 Charitable Lead Trust

Deirdre and Christopher HockettJanice M. Holsbo and Marlene Constance

Dr. Leora Horwitz and

Ruth Grace Jervis>e JM Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Kean, Jr.

Kate Kelly and George SchweitzerF.M. Kirby Foundation, Inc.Joan E. Kirkpatrick

Mr. and Mrs. Werner

Lang Family Foundation

Michael Lindley

>e Michael R. Lynch and

Donald B. and Catherine

Mr. and Mrs. Howard

Steven Meyer and Carol Sze

Drs. Martin Nash and

Network for Good

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Nives>e Norcross Wildlife Foundation, Inc.

Friends of Oakland ZooD. Barry O’Connor

Mr. and Mrs. George D. PhippsM. Piuze Foundation>e Remington FoundationChristopher Cutler Rich Memorial Trust

Isabella RosselliniMary A. H. Rumsey Foundation

Steven and Rosalie SandersonEstate of Judith Ann Schmidt

Sedgwick County Zoological Society

Estate of Leland ShaferSusan H. Shane Trust

Ruth Smart FoundationMarybeth Sollins

Mr. and Mrs. John G. Stevenson

Sylvanus Charitable Trust

Michael F. Teitler and

Nathan C. and Margaret Y. >orne Charitable Gift Fund of the Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

>e Toronto ZooJohn and Evelyn Trevor Charitable Foundation

Dr. Lucy R. Waletzky

Winslow FoundationRobert and Susan WilderZoological Society of San DiegoEleven anonymous donors

$2,500 TO $4,999

American Conservation AssociationJosiah and Valer AustinTracy Austin

Mr. and Mrs. Richard BastoniBay Ridge Parks & Waterfront Council Inc.

>e Howard Bayne FundSteven B. Beasley and

Matthew F. Bostock

Mr. and Mrs. John BriedisMr.* and Mrs. Garrison

Patricia Calabrese and

Rebecca and Sam Campbell

Julia CarpenterDrs. Tylis Y. Chang and

Mr. and Mrs. William B.

Cincinnati Zoological & Botanical Gardens

Elena Citkowitz and

>e Alan B. Cox Charitable Lead Unitrust

Mr. and Mrs. Paul L. Davies III

Estate of Samuel and Hilda Duff>e Robert G. and Jane V. Engel Foundation, Inc.

Lorin Le Grant and Howard Finkelstein

Sarah A. Gillman and

Mrs. Jean-Paul GimonLinda E. Gladstone

Joseph W. Hammer

Donna M. Uher and Arthur E. Imperatore

>e Edith B. and Lee V. Jacobs Fund No. 1

Jeanette K. Gamble Charitable Trust

Yukako Kawata and

Elaine S. Kirschenblatt

Ron LakeMr. and Mrs. Benjamin

Christine Larchian and

Robert J. Laskowski

Leon Levy Foundation>e Betty R. Lindner Foundation

Henry A. Lowenstein

Janice MacAvoy and


Sandra L. Manzella and Richard Karoff

Mr. and Mrs. Frank McGinnisA donor-advised grant from the McKenzie River Gathering Foundation, directed by an anonymous donor

Messengers of Healing Winds Foundation

Elizabeth P. Munson and

Drs. Ralph and Jadviga

>eresa Perenich

Reid Park ZooSusan and Norman Reid>e Reserve Management Corporation

Rocky Mountain Chapter of the American Association of Zoo Keepers, Inc.

Carmiña and Ralph Roth

Alta Thorne and WCS Trustee Daniel K. Thorne

Hiram Samel

Mr. and Mrs. Scott Shaw

Peter J. Sherwin

Maria Montgomery and

Swedish Defend the Elephants Society

Laura Tiberti

Toledo Zoo Chapter of the American Association of Zoo Keepers, Inc.

Michael Tuch Foundation, Inc.

Estate of William T. Warnock

Mr. and Mrs. Christopher

Estate of Edwin and Margaret Weyer

Betty Whelchel and

Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Winthrop, Jr.

Ten anonymous donors

$1,500 TO $2,499

*deceased


Jean-Marc Berteaux

>e Cornelius N. Bliss

Christopher Wilson

>e Burgess Family

CAL Foundation, Inc.

Naples Zoo at Caribbean Gardens

David Cohen and

Janet Cohen and Daniel

Commonwealth Zoological Corporation

Isabella Rosellini and WCS Trustee and Gala Co-Chair Allison Stern

Rosalie R. Cuculo and

Marie G. Dennett Foundation

>e Deo Gratias Foundation

>e Ralph and Laura

Alexandra F. Edwards

Tom and Kathy Ewald

Georges Felten

Freefam Foundation

Laura Palma French and

Mr. and Mrs. Peter L. Getz


Mr. and Mrs. Joseph

Spenger Glendon and Lisa Tung

Goldman Environmental Foundation

Lawrence, Nancy, and

Christine Williamson

Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. HallowellDr. and Mrs. Alan Harley

Margo A. Hassan and John P.

Joy and Harry* Henschel

Brad and Beth Hildt

Mr. and Mrs. Geoffrey G. Jervis

Diane and Donald Kendall, Jr.

Charles KnowlesAnna Kramarsky and

Robert S. Kruger and

Kathleen LaMattina and

Drs. William K. Main and

Maryland Zoological Society

Melanie H. and James

Mr. and Mrs. John F.

Heidi A. Muschick and

Liz Neumark and Chaim

Elizabeth O’Connell and

Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas D. Osborne

Peco Foundation

Emma Pucci

Kent H. Redford and

Rockefeller Brothers FundJamie and Leila Rome

Mark RossRichard W. RossGail Rothman and

Sannikov Russian

Lance Shoemaker and James Williams

Fredric A. Silberman and

Jessica Platt and Christopher

Alfred T. Stanley Foundation

Mrs. Deborah P. SterlingMr. and Mrs. William

Sidney Stern Memorial Trust

Nancy Taubenslag and

John M.P. >atcher IV

Patrick J. >omas and

Walter G. >ompsonMargaret and Bjorn

Toledo Zoological SocietyKenneth L. Smith

>e >omas J. Watson FoundationCharles E. and Leslie D. Webster

Colleen West

Estate of Hazel L. WilburNatalie W. Williams

Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Wilson III

Martha Wolfgang and

Sixteen anonymous donors

*deceased

$50,000 AND ABOVEAEA Investors, Inc.

Boies, Schiller & Flexner, LLP

Charles B. Wang Foundation

Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc.

William E. Flaherty

Darlene and Brian Heidtke

>e Hess Foundation, Inc.

J.C. Flowers & Co.

William T. Morris Foundation, Inc.

>e Howard Phipps Foundation

Schering-Plough Corporation

>e Starr Foundation

Allison and Leonard Stern

Mr. and Mrs. Renke >ye

>e Families of Laurence A. & Preston R. Tisch

Andrew H. and Ann R. Tisch Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. >omas Unterberg

Ward W. and Priscilla B. Woods

Barbara and Donald Zucker Foundation

$25,000 TO $49,999Bristol-Myers Squibb Company

Patricia D. Cayne

Mr. and Mrs. J. Michael Cline

Jonathan L. Cohen

Abigail Congdon and Joseph Azrack

Mr. and Mrs. Edgar M. Cullman

Mrs. Charles A. Dana, Jr.

Steven A. Denning

Katherine L. and Peter R. Dolan

Ernst & Young, LLP

M. Jessica Ewing and Steven Silpe

Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Goelet

Goldman, Sachs & Co.

Jonathan D. Green

*deceased


Newman’s Own, Inc.Katharina Otto-Bernstein and Nathan Bernstein

Hilary and Wilbur RossMr. and Mrs. David T. SchiffJerry I. SpeyerJohn M. Stephenson

$10,000 TO $24,999BloombergDahlia and Dominic A. CapolongoLiz Claiborne /Art Ortenberg Foundation

Glenn CloseCredit Suisse>e Walt Disney CompanyForest City RatnerSidney GoldMr. and Mrs. Bradley L. Goldberg>e Irwin FamilyKanbar Philanthropic FundAnita L. KeefeElyssa KellermanJohn and Mary LaMattinaCarolyn Lloyd-Cohen and Patrick Turbett

Cynthia and Dan LufkinEdith McBeanLarry P. MedvinskyMr. and Mrs. Gordon B. PatteePatterson, Belknap, Webb & TylerHeather and Merritt PaulsonPrudential SecuritiesVirginia and Warren SchwerinCaroline N. SidnamMr. and Mrs. Michael SteinhardtEdward Stern and Stephanie ReinEmanuel and Elizabeth Stern>e Summit FoundationMr. and Mrs. Daniel K. >ornePamela M. >ye>e Weill Family FundMrs. John L. WeinbergYale University

$5,000 TO $9,999Mr. Rodney B. BerensMr. and Mrs. Leon D. BlackDevon and Peter BrigerMr. and Mrs. Steven A. CohenFaith and Peter CoolidgeNancy Louise CorzineLucy C. DanzigerSharon S. and Christopher C. Davis

Blair A. England and Peter H. Carlin

Fairfield Greenwich GroupFxFowle Architects, PCJames J. and Marianne B. Lowrey Foundation

Alexandra Gardiner GoeletRobert Gardiner GoeletAllen J. GrubmanHSBC Bank USACarl C. Icahn FoundationDonna M. Uher and Arthur E. Imperatore

Karen A. and Kevin W. Kennedy Foundation

Barbara and Michael KowalskiMr. and Mrs. Benjamin V. LambertDamon P. MezzacappaDavid T. MichaelsTerence MitchellElizabeth P. Munson and Robert L. von Stade

Muriel McBrien Kauffman Foundation/Julia Power Weld

New York Presbyterian HospitalVivian and Stanley PichenyRobert RechnitzMr. and Mrs. Peter G. SchiffMr. and Mrs. Eric P. SheinbergPaul ShiverickStuntz Family FoundationWachovia Insurance ServicesWeill Medical College & Graduate School of Medical Sciences

Guy WildensteinMr. and Mrs. Samuel H. Wolcott IIIOne anonymous donor

$1,000 TO $4,999Lorie and Paul AdamsCatherine G. AdlerJane Alexander and Edwin SherinAmerican GirlJeanne and Gerhard AndlingerMuffie Potter Aston and Dr. Sherrell J. Aston

Astroland Kiddie Park Inc.Mr. and Mrs. David M. BaldwinJohn Barman and Kelly GrahamElizabeth E. BartlettDennis Basso and Michael Cominotto

Elizabeth BelferGarrick D. BernsteinCeleste and P. Cornelis BoeleYamilee Bongo-AstierStephanie E. K. BorynackMr. and Mrs. Henry R. BreckRosemary and Charles BrennanBrighton DevelopmentMr. and Mrs. Garrison W. BrintonBrooklyn CyclonesDiane and Charles BrushMelva Bucksbaum and Raymond Learsy

Mr. and Mrs. George H. Bullen

Miriam CahnAnn Marie CarrJohn K. CastleAna CentolaBonnie and Clive ChajetElizabeth and James ChandlerCheryl K. ChipJohn Ciaffone and Gina Argento Ciaffone

Ann and Geoffrey ColeyCommunity Mayors, Inc.Ursula and Kevin CorganAce and Susan CraryCrum and Forester Gila and Paul DaitzMary Beth and Stephen DanielRobert de RothschildMr. and Mrs. >ompson DeanMr. and Mrs. Donald DeFordMr. and Mrs. Sam M. DeRosa-Farag

Nancy and Hugh Devlin>e Cleveland H. Dodge Foundation, Inc.

Kathy and Craig DrillStephanie and David EngstromRobert and Margaret FagensonCelia A. Felsher and John L. CecilKaren and Andrew FifeJodie and Andrew FinkDiane and Jerry FishmanDr. Charlotte K. FrankGAB Robins North America, Inc.Christopher GeorgeCarolyn M. GouldRebecca and Laurence GrafsteinGrayson Family Foundation, Inc.Greater New York Hospital Association

Jamee and Peter GregoryDr. Joyce P. Griffin-SobelAntonia M. GrumbachAgnes Gund FoundationJeffrey GuralGaines Gwathmey and Rose Harvey

Anneliese HarstickMr. and Mrs. Edward W. HayesGillian Hearst-ShawMarlene Hess and James H. ZirinCaroline Hirsch and Andrew FoxHilary and Steven HirschRichard L. HirschJane and Michael HoffmanJuliette and Mark Janssens>erese JoslinElizabeth and William KahaneDayssi and Paul KanavosElizabeth and Dan KeeganBicky and George Kellner

KeySpanJay KimGloria KischElaine Kloss and Ronald AdeeWerner H. and Sarah-Ann Kramarsky

>omas F. KranzChristine Kuehbeck and Carl Bernstein

Ronald A. Lake and Frederick C. Lake

Margo M. LangenbergMr. and Mrs. James M. Large, Jr.Brooke and David W. Laughlin>e Lautenberg FoundationM.J. and Caral LebworthHarrison T. LeFrakKaren and Richard LeFrakJean and Armand LindenbaumMr. and Mrs. Robert D. Lindsay and Family

Gail McDonnell Lobkowicz and Phillip Lobkowicz

Lostand Foundation, Inc.Marguerite LoucasWilliam B. LoweSusan LyallGrace Lyu VolckhausenManatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLPChristopher H. ManiceMr. and Mrs. Roman Martinez IVDiahn and Tom McGrathRonay and Richard MenschelMr. and Mrs. Robert B. MillardMary and Sam MillerMrs. Stanley R. MillerGillian and Sylvester MiniterRichard and Marcia MishaanHee-Jung and John Moon>e Moore Charitable FoundationHeidi Muschick and Barry DiBernardo

Valia and Metin NegrinNew York Stock Exchange Foundation, Inc.

New York YankeesHeidi NitzeDrs. Ralph and Jadviga da Costa Nuñez

Mr. and Mrs. Richard NyeD. Barry O’ConnorLisa and Ciaran O’KellyPatricia and Jeffrey PattersonJessie and >omas PaulRobin and Matthew E. PerkinsCarroll PetrieYesim and Dusty PhilipJoanne and Paul B. PragerKimberly and Jean PutzerLewis RabinowitzDenise Rich


Robeco USA, Inc.Elizabeth and Bradley RobinsLinda Gosden Robinson and James D. Robinson III

David RockefellerIsabella RosselliniDr. Jeffrey A. SachsCarla Sacks and John MorrisDanielle Sapse and Anne-Marie Sapse

Drew and Karenna SchiffMort SchraderHeidi SchusterKristen Siebecker and Alex Robinson

Ann L. and Herbert J. Siegel Philanthropic Fund

Alan B. Slifka Foundation, Inc.Andrea SternRaymond M. SteuertDana Hammond Stubgen and Dr. Patrick Stubgen

Dr. Judith P. SulzbergerMatt and Joan TaylorMr. and Mrs. Andrew >omasBarbara and Donald ToberMary Margaret and John Trousdale>e G. Unger Vetleson FoundationMr. and Mrs. John J. VeronisMr. and Mrs. Gianluigi VittadiniErica von StudnitzBruce and Claude WassersteinSharon Wee and Tracy FuLaurie and David I. WeinerHarriett and Ronald WeintraubKarl Wellner and Deborah NorvilleMr. and Mrs. Phillip WinegarRogih Yazgi Natasha and Dirk ZiffZurich American Insurance Company

>ree anonymous donors

$50,000 AND ABOVEBP InternationalBristol-Myers Squibb CompanyCargill, Inc.CitiConsolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc.

Disney Wildlife Conservation FundEnduro IndiaExxon Mobil FoundationGoldman, Sachs & Co.Mitsubishi Corporation Foundation for the Americas

>e New York Times Company Foundation

Nordstrom

>e Pfizer FoundationShell Exploration & Production Company

>e Tiffany & Co. FoundationTyco InternationalUnocal Foundation

$25,000 TO $49,999Liz Claiborne Inc.Credit Suisse>e Walt Disney CompanyIndependence Community Foundation

JPMorgan ChaseMorgan StanleySeaWorld & Busch Gardens Conservation Fund

Sovereign Bank

$10,000 TO $24,999Altria Group, Inc.American Express CompanyAnson Energy CorporationAutomatic Data Processing, Inc.AXA Foundation, Inc.>e Bank of New YorkBloombergColgate-Palmolive CompanyErnst & Young, LLP>e Guardian Life Insurance Company

>e H.W. Wilson FoundationHSBC Bank USAINGKeefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc.Merrill Lynch & Co.MetLifeMoody’s FoundationBenjamin Moore & Co.New England Biolabs FoundationNew York Power AuthorityPzena Investment Management, LLC

>e Rockefeller Group, Inc.Sony Corporation of AmericaTime Warner, Inc.Toshiba America Foundation

$6,000 TO $9,999Fidelity Investment CorporationMcGraw-Hill CompaniesTIAA-CREFUniverse Kogaku America

$3,000 TO $5,999Berry & Berry>e Bloomingdale’s Fund of the Federated Department Stores Foundation

Chevron Research and Technology Company

Happy Hollow CorporationHenry Schein, Inc.

Stop & Stor Charitable FundVestar Capital PartnersW. P. Carey & Co.Wilder Property Companies, Inc.

$1,000 TO $2,999American International GroupAmgen FoundationGood Tree LLCKings Plaza Shopping Center and Marina

LoweproMoritz Cadillac, Inc.Newman’s Own, Inc.Newmark & Company Real Estate, Inc.

Reserve Management CorporationSan Juan Hand >erapySchroder Investment Management North America Inc.

St. Augustine Alligator Farm Inc.Sullivan, Hayes & QuinnVeterinary Oncology and Hematology Center, LLC

One anonymous donor

Astroland Amusement ParkBaby PlanetBank of AmericaCafé ImportsCare2.comConsolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc.

Coors Brewing Co.Delta Air LinesDenos WonderWheelEaglemont PressFisher-PriceFuji Photo Film USA, Inc.Hess CorporationJeepManhattan Beer DistributorsMontefiore Medical Center>e New York Daily NewsPepsiCo, Inc.Pepsi-Cola Bottling of New York, Inc.

Royal Caribbean International Snapple Beverages SONY Pictures StarbucksUBSWendy’s InternationalYellow BookZenSoy

American Girl Astroland Amusement Park

Barbara’s Bakery, Inc.

Birthdaybakers Partymakers

Bottlenotes

Bradford Renaissance

Brooklyn Brewery

Build-A-Bear Workshop®

Castle Brands, Inc.

Champion Stamp Co., Inc.

Classic Harbor Line

Faith and Peter Coolidge

Crayon, Inc.

Deno’s Wonder Wheel

Donnellascloset.com

Draycott Hotel

Eos Airlines

>e Fishman Organization

FIZZ

Folkmanis

Forest City Ratner Companies

Fox Entertainment Group

Gervais Arts

Glorious Food

Italian Wine Merchants

IZZE Beverage Company

Jacadi

JetBlue Airways

K & M International

KeySpan Energy

Kid O

London Zoo

Mad Imports

Manhattan >eatre Club

Mapping the World by Heart

MCC >eater

Medical Imaging of Manhattan

Northern Focus Optical, Inc.

On >e Line Productions LTD

PepsiCo, Inc.

Placid Boatworks

Putumayo World Music

Ralph Lauren

Riverhouse

Sharp Electronics Corporation

Skin >eraP

So Cozy Haircare For Children

Sovereign Bank

Sweet Zoe Scents

Victoria Hansen

Rachel and Janet Vinyard

Vivolo

Wyland

Zoocchini

*deceased


Norma J. AbeleEthel AdlerEdwina P. AhenkoraDorothy L. AsendorfBetty Jane BaerBetty L. BarryRhoda Lee BauchBeverly BenderMrs. Hilda A. BenderAnnette BenedictHelen BenjaminIrmgard BennettJoan BensonLucy Wilson BensonMr. and Mrs. Robert O. BensonSusanna BergerAnn BerkmanGisela and Daniel BerksonPriscilla BlakemoreLouis H. BlumengartenHarvey and Heidi BookmanMargaret A. BorgstrandRichard H. BoseMaggie and Walt BoyerRon and Susan BriggsRandy BrookMarlene BrydaDrs. Cynthia and Robert BurnsWalter and Sylvia ButtonJoseph A. CalderoneMichael CampbellWilliam H. CanfieldDr. Irene Cannon-GearyPeggy CatalaneCaroline and Dominick CelliDorothy Babcock ChapinC. Diane Christensen and Jean Pierret

Marie CiaiolaAnn CioffiEmily CliftonJonathan L. CohenLouise G. CollinsDr. and Mrs. William G. ConwayMargery CornwellRhonda CoulstonDr. Susan CropperMrs. Edgar M. CullmanRobert CusickMrs. Charles A. Dana, Jr.Joy DarlingtonCountess Emilie de Rohan-Chandor

Margaret Della Cioppa

The Wildlife Conservation Society is pleased to recognize the members of the Wildlife Heritage Circle, who have demonstrated their commitment to our mission by including WCS in their estate plans or establishing life income gifts. We are grateful for their contributions, which will provide important future support for our efforts to save wildlife and wild places.

Janet and Fred HitschlerCarroll Ann HodgesAugusta HookMargaret Rose HopeRobin HuffmanWilliam HughesMr. and Mrs. Edgar E. JacksonMr. and Mrs. Howard JacobsCav. Dr. Irma B. JaffeSonya JensenJoan and Edward KaplanMr. and Mrs. John E. KarlinYvonne P. KennyLisette KirchnerEdith KopeckyNicholas and Linda KordesSimah KrausNeil W. KurtzHenry LeferGrace LeightSuzi LeonardDr. Richard W. LevyLucy D. LieberfeldMichael LindleyKathleen LingoHarvey LitwinWilliam B. LloydCatherine LomuscioDorcas MacClintockAndrew J. MainPatricia MalkinMr. and Mrs. James P. Marion, Jr.Elizabeth S. MarkMr. and Mrs. George J. MarraEdith McBeanLinda McCauleyMegan M. McCormickMr. and Mrs. David Herron MeeseCharles W. MerrelsMr. and Mrs. Richard A. MillerStella MillerJames F. Minter and David J. Schnabel

Max MoneyRichard MontgomeryDan and Shirley MoreinesAnne Marie MorrisAmy J. MunichDrs. Martin A. Nash and Jack Hennigan

Murray L. NathanClaire K. NeckerLarry NessMrs. Dorothy NewshanMr. and Mrs. Fred NivesRonald Nullet

Marilyn O’BrienMr. and Mrs. David ObedzinskiDoris OhlsenAustin Okie>eresa and Leonard OrnsteinPKD TrustMr. and Mrs. Stuart PalkovitzAntoinette PanicoJacqueline PearlmanTerry PelsterStacey PetersMartha PezrowLauren PollackJane Cox PontyMrs. Simon PoytaRobert M. PreissnerLauretta PresteraPhil and Irene PullenRobert Ramir

Right: Claudio Campagna directs the WCS Sea and

Sky program to protect biodiversity in the southwest-

ern Atlantic. He has studied southern elephant seals in

Patagonia since the late 1970s.

Annette DeLucaRobert and Rosemarie DiedaHeather-Mary DixonAndre and Molly DonikianChristopher DursoBarbara DzubakMarie June Eger and Mary Jane Osborne

Dr. Joan EliasophWilliam T. FarrarJoan L. FaustBonnie FisherTaryn and Howard FisherRobert and Judith FoesterConnie C. FrazierChristopher and Desly Movius Fryer

Gail GabrelianMargaret GarlandLois GartlirEvadne GerrardNadine and Scott GoetzDoris GolderosFred GoodBarbara GrahamMargaret and Floyd GraveCarolyn GreeneSharon Grelsamer>omas M. GriffingDr. James F. GrilloKatharine GrossCynthia E. GubernickTatjana E. GusoffMargaret L. HagenLeo Carl HalpernLinda HammondMary HarknessNancy Kay HarrisLinda D. and Albert M. HartigGregory F. HauserPeg HeathRaisa HebraDrs. David and Deirdre HensenDr. Joseph Q. HeplarEleanor HermanAmy HershJoan Hesterberg


Kathleen RitchAnthony RohrAnn RoscheMr. and Mrs. Daniel RoseLynn RosenfeldBarbara RosenthalJacqueline RossiLinda RothsteinNorma E. RuggDorothy K. RuppLoretta RussoSteven E. SandersonJames E. ScarffPeter SchafferJoan ScheierKarin and Patrick SchiavoneChristine Schiavone-McKeonJoanne SchillerRena Schilsky

Marilyn G. SchroederPatricia ScimecaDot Selinger and Michael MoskovisHolly ShaferBarry A. ShapiroNorma Gudin ShawBinkley and Paula ShortsSheila Siderman and Jerry PalinFred SiemerSharon Kim Siegfriedt and Fredric A. Silberman

Kenneth L. Smith and Lucia Christopher

Greta SmithElissa SommerFerne SpielerAdrienne StatfeldMarilyn SteeleC. Streno

Marie StrenoPhyllis StricklerPatricia StrykerDave StuteySusanne Suba-BlochAudrey J. SuttonKaren J. SwopeJohn J. SymanskyPeggy J. TalehoFran >omas and Harry FriedmanDavid B. and Muriel B. TischlerMercele TrudeauxJohn H. Tyler, Ph.D.Lorraine UmekJean van BuurenDr. Hansa van HoveDr. and Mrs. Christopher Vasillopulos

Charles O. Vellone

Teresa L. VincentJohn and Victoria WalkerMarjory S. WaltersFanny E. WarburgMary E. WartersMr. and Mrs. Douglas P. WarwickMarshall WeinbergMr. and Mrs. Robert E. WeissMiriam WeissblumJoel WeisvogelLucille WerlinichChristine WesterhoffAdrienne P. WickershamMr. and Mrs. Phillip M. WinegarBetty WinklerWard W. Woods, Jr.Elizabeth M. ZappMonica E. Zullo>irty anonymous donors


DINNER BY THE SEA COMMITTEEBrian J. Heidtke, ChairRon AdeeMarina Belessis-CasoriaBruce BenderDominic A. CapolongoTrudy DolleyPeter EmersonDiane FishmanJerry FishmanSid GoldJohn R. Hearst, Jr.Amy KleinTerence J. MitchellJoshua L. MussHoward Phipps, Jr.Charles RussellDavid T. Schiff, ex officioPeter G. SchiffVictor E. VientosWard W. Woods

CONSERVATION COUNCILChristopher Manice, Co-ChairMary Dailey Pattee, Co-ChairDiana Townsend-Butterworth, Co-Chair

John AchenbachCristina AlgerHalsey AndersonLindsey AndrewsAnne and George F. Baker IVElizabeth BelferMelissa BerkelhammerGabriela BockhausStephanie E. K. BorynackLisa BottomleyCamilla K. BradleyCharles R. Carson, Jr.Nicholas CoxBenjamin C. de MenilCassin DonnCarolina DorsonW. Malcolm DorsonChristine EliaMolly B. FahnerFernanda K. GilliganColin Haynes GreensponMerrill HanleyNicole HanleyVictoria HansenAmanda HearstGillian Hearst-ShawLydia Hearst-ShawElisabeth Kieselstein-CordLauren Leigh KisnerGillian KoenigHarrison LeFrakHelena C. MartinezAlexander Mears

Amanda MeigherBlair MetraillerAlix PeckSarah PendergastElizabeth PyneLauren SbordoneGeorgina SchaefferTeddy SchiffMontserrat Serra-JannerDavid SlavenMargot Streeter Jud TraphagenTaylor TrautR. Scott Zenko

EXPLORERSʼ PARTY COMMITTEEFaith Coolidge, Co-ChairJuliette Janssens, Co-ChairLorie and Paul AdamsChristina and Anthony AddisonJackie and Jean Francois AstierRhonda and Robbie BankerBarbara and Jude BarberaMary and John BettisCeleste and P. Cornelis BoelePamela and Scott BowmanDevon and Peter BrigerNoreen and Ken BuckfirePeri and David Clark, Jr.Ann and Geoffrey ColeyFaith and Peter CoolidgeElena and John CoumantarosIde and David DangoorAndrea de Cholnoky and Scott C. Wilson

Karen and Marc de Saint PhalleLiete and Mark EichornChrissie and Tolomy ErpfKristen and Stephen FealyLibby and Terry FitzgeraldLala and Porter FlemingCozy and Joseph FriedmanLinda and Charles GarnettBlakely and Trey GriggsAlex Wolf Hamblett and Mark Hamblett

Paige and Tripp HardyAnn and John HeidenreichJackie and Keith HennesseyRitchey and David HoweSharon and William JacobJuliette and Mark JanssensAmanda and Glad JonesDayssi and Paul KanavosSandy and Jim KatzmanBeth and Clarke KeoughSerena and William LeseTamara and Josh LeuchtenburgStacey and Keith LockerLeslie and >omas MaherasJoy and Charles McLendon, Jr.Valerie and Stuart MogulHee-Jung and John Moon

*deceased

Right: Malagasy environmentalist and recording artist

Sarovy writes, sings, and teaches songs about the

environment to village youngsters in the rainforests of

Masoala and Makira, both WCS field sites.

Whitney and Clarke MurphyEllen Niven and Tristram DeeryVanessa and Jeremy O’FrielSuzanne and Craig PackerBetsy and Rob PittsMimi and Lorin ReisnerAmy and Hartley RogersCharlotte and Ottavio SerenaKatherine and Dhiren Shah Mary Alice and M. David SherrillNancy and John SippKathleen and Andrew >omasMary Margaret and John TrousdaleKathryn and Bill TyreeMargie and William Ughetta, Jr.Alexis and John WallerLiz and Steve WeinsteinAlison and Dan WeiskopfElizabeth and Philip B. Weymouth III

Charlotte and John WickhamSuzy Wolden and Jon HorowitzAdina and Woody YoungAnnette and John Younger

NEW ENGLAND COUNCILCaroline H. Hall, Co-ChairJodie D. Stevenson, Co-ChairJean-Marc BerteauxMr. and Mrs. Michael L. BrownAlexandra F. EdwardsElizabeth T. GrayMrs. Benjamin A. GrovesMr. and Mrs. Frank J. HallowellElizabeth and Dan HarriganBrad and Beth HildtMr. and Mrs. Steven HochRonnie KanarekJennifer West LodgeSandra L. Manzella and Richard Karoff

Mr. and Mrs. E. Lee PerryMr. and Mrs. J. Stanley ReeveMr. and Mrs. J. Carry RichMr. and Mrs. Jamie RomeMr. and Mrs. Robert G. ScottBinkley C. ShortsJohn G. StevensonWalter G. >ompsonNatalie W. WilliamsFrederic Winthrop, Jr.

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA COUNCILJudith Hamilton, Co-ChairChristopher Hockett, Co-ChairJohn D. Goldman, Honorary ChairMr. and Mrs. Richard BastoniMichael W. BealmearJayaram BhatRon and Susan BriggsMary S. BoardmanMr. and Mrs. William N. Bucklin III

Mr. and Mrs. Robert BurgessC. Diane ChristensenMadeleine and Jerry CohenMr. and Mrs. Stephen DowStephanie A. EvansAstrid FloodLinda E. GladstoneMrs. William H. Hamm IIIDr. and Mrs. Alan HarleyKathryn W. HolmesCharles KnowlesMonica M. KrickWilliam B. McClatchyZara McDonaldPatricia McGinnisJeff MorganMr. and Mrs. Nicholas D. OsborneAnne L. PatteeGeorge D. PhippsRichard W. RossWalter C. SedgwickLance Shoemaker and James Williams

Laurie M. Smith and Stephen C. Pratt

Dr. Marjorie SmithBeverly Spector

SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT COUNCILHeather Jervis, Co-Chair Lucinda B. Watson, Co-ChairTom and Kathy EwaldMr.and Mrs. Carl S. Forsythe IIIMr. and Mrs. Peter L. GetzMrs. Jean-Paul GimonMr. and Mrs. Geoffrey G. JervisRuth Grace JervisWayne Jervis IIID. Barry O’ConnorCarmiña and Ralph RothMrs. Deborah P. SterlingJohn M.P. >atcher, III*John M.P. >atcher, IV



WCS Staff

Steven E. Sanderson, President and Chief Executive Officer

Gail Sheldon, Chief of Staff

Kent H. Redford, Vice President and Director

Eva Fearn, Assistant DirectorJohn Fraser, Director, Public Research and Evaluation Program

Margaret Kinnaird, Senior Conservation Ecologist

Jessica Sickler, Research AssociateCatherine Grippo, Program Assistant

LIVING INSTITUTIONS ADMINISTRATIONRobert A. Cook, Senior Vice President and General Director

James J. Breheny, Vice President and Director, Bronx Zoo

John A. Gwynne, Vice President and Chief Creative Officer

Denise McClean, Assistant Director, Administration of City Zoos

Marion Merlino, Executive Assistant

Michelle Midea, Beverly Moss, Secretaries

Project Development>ea Feldman, Creative Writer

Bronx Zoo LibrarySteve Johnson, ManagerRobert Olley, Information Services Librarian

WILDLIFE HEALTH SCIENCESPaul Calle, Acting Director, Zoological Health Programs

Joanne Valletta, Office ManagerSusan Cardillo, Lisa Eidlin, Hospital Supervisors

Deborah F. Harris, Pathology & Clinical Records Secretary

Clinical CarePaul Calle, Stephanie B. James, Bonnie Raphael, Senior Veterinarians

Robert Moore, Associate Clinical Veterinarian

Heidi Zurawka, WCS Clinical Resident

Tim Georoff, WCS/Cornell Clinical Resident

Pamela Manning Torres, Veterinary Technician Supervisor

Karen Ingerman, Justin X. Nowowiejski, Donna Stringer, Veterinary Technicians

Dolores Sanginito, Clinical Secretary

PathologyD McAloose, Department HeadCarlos E. Rodriguez, Julie White, Associate Pathologists

Alfred Ngbokoli, Laboratory Supervisor

Daniel Friedman, HistotechnicianPatricia Walsh, Pathology Technician

Melissa Czajikowski, WCS/Cornell Resident

Field Veterinary ProgramWilliam Karesh, Director and Chief of Party of GAINS

Angela Yang, Program ManagerColin Woodward, Technician/Logistics Coordinator

Helen Lee, Program CoordinatorErika Alandia, Erik Eulert, Community Outreach Veterinarians

Africa: Ken Cameron, Alain Ondzie, Field Veterinarians; Michael D. Kock, Associate Field Veterinarian; Patricia E. Reed, Assistant Field Veterinarian; Baudelaire Zorine Nkouantsi, Wildlife Health Specialist; Issa Bedjabaga, Lab Technician

Asia: Martin Gilbert, Assistant Field Veterinarian, Stephane Ostrowksi, Ecosystem Health Manager

Latin America: Carolina Marull, Wildlife Health Fellow; Rodolfo Nallar Gutierrez, Marcela M. Uhart, Field Veterinarians

Scott Newman, Wildlife Health Advisor, UN FAO

Steven Osofsky, Senior Policy Advisor, Wildlife Health

Damien Joly, Senior Science Advisor, Epidemiology

GAINS: Kristine Smith, Field Veterinarian; Barbara Perez-Reid, Program Assistant; Eric Hively, GIS/Data Coordinator; Miklos Takacs, Website Coordinator; Jessica Grillo, Program Manager; Darin Collins, Asia Field Veterinarian; Robert >omson, Asia Bird Specialist

EXHIBITION DESIGN AND GRAPHIC ARTS (EGAD)John Gwynne, Vice President and Chief Creative Officer

Susan Chin, Director, Planning and Design

Eileen Cruz-Minnis, Assistant Director, EGAD Administration

Rumit Mehta, Program Administrator

Patricia White, Executive AssistantAnne Rice, Project AssistantDenise Delgado, Department Assistant

Matilda Mora, Office Clerk

Architecture, Exhibit Design Production

Dex Ott, Director, Design Management

Walter Deichmann, Creative Director, Exhibits

Shane LeClair, Senior Project Designer

Nanette Gran, E. Stephen Melley, Brian Morrissey, Project Managers

Sara Tsiropinas, Junior Architectural Designer

Tonya Edwards, Jennifer Lee, Senior Landscape Designers

Exhibit ProductionGary Smith, Assistant DirectorMatthew Aarvold, Assistant Supervisor

Derek Haffar, Senior Exhibit Specialist

Lauren Anker, Christian John Dallett, Brian Donnelly, Carolyn Fuchs, Katherine McLeod, Deborah Simon, Exhibit Specialists

Ruth Marshall, Exhibit Sculptor

Interpretive ProgramsSonal Bhatt, Assistant DirectorJessica Bicknell, Exhibit Developer Sarah Werner, Media Coordinator & Exhibit Developer

Graphic Design and ProductionSarah Hezel, Assistant DirectorZipora Fried, Kimio Honda, Sharon Kramer Loew, Creative Directors, Graphics

Richard Orlosky, Senior Graphic Designer

Nancy Fischer, Vanah Harris, Adi Mendler, Joshua Weitzman, Graphic Designers

Andrae Cezair, Sue Cha, Jennifer Dolland, Junior Graphic Designers

Paul Heyer, Manager, Exhibit Production

Nelson >en, Manager, Graphic Production and Computer Systems

Kim Wagner, Production Coordinator

Christopher Maune, Supervisor, Graphic Production

George Oberhofer, William Rios, Graphic Specialists

Global DesignKatherine Lemcke, Project Coordinator

BRONX ZOOJames J. Breheny, Vice President and Director

Linda Wied, Executive AssistantBronx Zoo Animal ProgramsPatrick R. >omas, General Curator

MammalogyColleen McCann, Curator, Primates

David Powell, Assistant Curator, Hoofstock

Rebecca Chapnick, Office ManagerMarietta Kalk, Claudia Wilson, Collection Managers

Bryan Robidas, SupervisorGlenn Fergason, Michael Gormaley, Brenda Kramer, Nicole Rella, Jason Rowe, Assistant Supervisors

Robert Terracuso, Kris >eis, Primary Wild Animal Keepers

Ralph Aversa, Michelle Blatz, Kitty Dolan, Gilbert Gordian, Jr., Loraine Hershonik, Vanessa Jones, Florence Klecha, Kathleen MacLaughlin, Douglas Mase, Joan McCabe-Parodi, Jeffrey Munson, Karen Napolitano, Phillip Reiser, Gerard Stark, Jose Vasquez, Martin Zybura, Senior Wild Animal Keepers

Avril Armstrong, Adele Barone, Anthony Buffill, Wendy Canino, Lacy Clifford, Katherine D’Andrea, Emily Davidson, Dawn Davis, Robert Dempsey, Brian DiGirolamo, Juliet Elkins, David Fernandez, Carlos Flores, Joel Forgione, Mary Gentile, Amy Golden, Mary Gremler, Daphne Guzman, Carol Henger, Danielle Hessel, Lauren Hinson, Cindy Maur, Joanne McGillycuddy, Kate McMahon, Michelle Medina, Elizabeth Metzger, Elizabeth Mills, Katie Mokkosian, Brandon Moore, Douglas Morea, Keri Nugent, Rebecca Pearce, Jonathan Perez, Noel Perriello, Hope Pinckney, Brian Putman, Nancy Rogers, Amy Ryan, Chris Salemi, Sabrina Squillari, Monika Stroeber, Anneke van Renesse, Heather Tassler, Nate >ompson, Patricia-Ann Vierling, Cathy Vitale, Kelly Wallis, Mike Wrubel, Rebecca Zenowich, Wild Animal Keepers

Matthew Vara, Supervising Park Maintainer

James Musano, Park Maintainer

OrnithologyChristine Sheppard, CuratorNancy Clum, Assistant CuratorMary Evans, Departmental Assistant

Marcia Arland, Collection ManagerMark Hofling, Mary Iorizzo, Assistant Supervisors

Chad Seewagen, Ornithology Intern

Patricia Cooper, Gigi Giacomara, Nancy Gonzalez, Susan Leiter, Alana O’Sullivan, Yvetta Pokorny, Jeremy Sanders, Emily Stevinson, Brian Tierney, Paul Zabarauskas, Senior Wild Animal Keepers

Alisa Behar, Kristi Bruce, Jeannine Correa, Margaret Deeney, Myra Dremeaux, James, Gottleib, Shanna Hall, Tasha Hook, Michael Houlihan, Ken Huth,


Tim Mohl, Trina Puglia, Juan Romero, Ramsay >om, Debra Wolfe, Beth Wetherhold, Wild Animal Keepers

HerpetologyJennifer Pramuk, CuratorGail Bonsignore, Supervising Secretary

William Holmstrom, Collection Manager

Paul Kmiotek, Senior Wild Animal Keeper

Joseph Abene, Alyssa Borek, Brandon Casey, Melissa Mohring, Wild Animal Keepers

Special Animal Exhibits: Childrenʼs Zoo, Butterfly Garden, Animal Rides, Tractable AnimalsCraig Gibbs, Curatorial Science Fellow

John Scarola, Operations SupervisorRuth Iannuzzi, Diana Tancredi, Supervisors

Diana Belich, James Dauterman, Stephanie Derkasch, Shakira Paula, Assistant Supervisors

Mary Bynon, Margaret Deeny, Melanie Lumba, Jennifer Oi,

Patricia Ortiz, Kim Smith, Luke Torres, Wild Animal Keepers

Animal Management ServicesNilda Ferrer, Curator and RegistrarHelen Basic, Anne Rockmore, Animal Records Specialists

Mariluz Vazquez, Data and Technical Support Assistant

Carmen Guzman, Animal Shipping Coordinator

Pest ControlAnthony Boodoo, Manager, Pest Control

Azaad Gaffar, Pest Control Assistant Manager

Sergio Rivera, Joseph White, Pest Control Applicator

Animal CommissaryJoseph Briller, ManagerMoruf Egbo, Michael Marano, Senior Wild Animal Keepers

Alfredo Hernandez, Michael Cruz, Wild Animal Keepers

John Andrew King, Park Maintainer

Quincy Banks, Guillermo Guzzman, Assistant Park Maintainers

Jennifer Pramuk was named Curator of Herpetology

at the Bronx Zoo. Her specialty is amphibians, particu-

larly Latin American frogs.

Bronx Zoo SecurityEdward Cooney, Manager, SecurityRaynor Mattson, Assistant ManagerJeff Grahn, Kennedy Samuels, Supervisors

Luis Barreto, Steven Carr, Steven Pippa, Gregory Upshaw, James Williams, Park Maintainers

Haseeb Baksh, Jimmy Barreto, Ivonne Collazo, Weston Hill, Barbara Laureano, Noel Martinez, Ceaser Montenegro, Bernardo Nelson, Jesus Padilla, Maribel Perez, Robert Rosario, Donald >ompson, Alexandre Vazquez, Ralph Zamboli, Assistant Park Maintainers

ConstructionKenneth Hutchinson, DirectorJon Dohlin, Paul Skarbowski, Project Managers

Nora Ramos, Operations Administrator

OperationsJohn Duke, Assistant DirectorMichael Santomaso, ManagerLaurel Toscano, Administrative Assistant, Operations Shops

Parmanand Kesraj, Anthony Laino, >omas Reilly, Louis Scandole, Michael Scott, Sanjev Seodas, Marconi St. Hill, Robert Stillwell, Nathaniel Torres, Supervising Park Maintainers

Walter Almodovar, James Byrne, Benedetto Cardillo, Francis

Cushin, Joseph Corry, Lawrence D’Erasmo, Robert Gonzalez, Alfred Hart, John Illenye, Gregory Kalmanowitz, Jose Martinez, Ramon Mendoza, Alison Modeste, Tarique Mohammed, Winston Newton, Nicholas Perrone, Nelson Prado, Robert Santarelli, Renzo Scarazzini, Edward Scholler, Nathaniel Torres, Carlos Year, Park Maintainers

MaintenanceFrank Suarino, Assistant DirectorWinston Williams, ManagerWayne Harris, Park ForemanJohnnie Ferreira, Supervising Park Attendant

Anthony Corvino, Supervising Park Maintainers

Raquel Camacho, Administrative Assistant

Juan Semidei, Jr., John Tralongo, Zoo Park Maintainers

Rafael Adorno, Joel, Annuziato, William Castro, Jr., Orlando Figueroa,

Gabriel Gomez, Santos Gonzalez, Othniel Gulley, Mary Martin, Jose Raul Rivera, Michael Sbarbori, Justin Smith, Assistant Park Maintainers

Maria Maldonado, Senior Attendant

John Bruno, Jr., Migdalia Cordero, Maria Estrada, Roberto Figueroa,

Jose A. Garcia, Jeanette Goines, Gilbert Green, Porfirio Gutierrez,


Keith Harris, Demond Jones, Sonia Kalmanowitz, Louis Landi, Carmen Montalvo, Manuel Moura, Mildonia Nunez, Jose Palacios, Gerard Palinkas, Raymond Quaglia, Niurka Ramos, Maria Ramos, Marta Rivera, Victor Rodriguez, Pedro Velez, Eduardo Vidal, Raymond Zelenka, Attendants

Manuel Garcia, Supervising Motor Vehicle Operator

George Izquierdo, Luigi Marricco, Ralph Maston, Motor Vehicle Operators

CogenerationMichael Henry, Manager, Electric Services

Alfred Jensen, SupervisorMark Anderson, Dave Bailey, Farouk Baksh, Hervan Brown, Roopnarine Maharaj, Edwin Otero, Keith Reynolds, Park Maintainers

HorticultureRay Oladapo-Johnson, CuratorWayne Bourdette, ManagerGregory Smith, SupervisorJames Coelho, Stuart Goldstein, Robert Herkommer, David Hyde, Juan Albert Peralta, Gardeners

James Burns, Paul Fialkovic, Anthony Quaglia, David

Rosenthal, Park MaintainersKevin Bermeo, Ivonne Lopez, Lloyd Pearson, Premchad Ramgoriah, Assistant Park Maintainers

NEW YORK AQUARIUMCynthia Reich, Deputy DirectorJoan Shovlin, Rebecca Williams, Project Assistants

Animal ProgramsDavid DeNardo, General Curator and Director of Animal Operations

Paul Sieswerda, Aquarium CuratorPaul Loiselle, Curator, Freshwater Fishes

Martha Hiatt, Supervisor, Behavioral Husbandry

Guenter Skammel, Senior TrainerJaneen Gleason, Kristin Gragnano, Joanne Sottile, Nick Visscher, Trainers

Michael Morgano, Hans Walters, Supervisors

JoAnne Basinger, Frank Greco, Leslie Leffler, Wayne Stempler, Senior Keepers

Nicole Ethier, Stephanie Mitchell, Paul Moylett, Lora Murphy, Nicole Pisciotta, Sal Puglia, Ellen Spencer, Jessica Trantham, >omas Wippenbeck, Keepers

Catherine McClave, Laboratory Manager

Below: Assistant Park Maintainer Premchand Ramgoria

and Gardener David Hyde help install new plantings

for the June opening of the Bronx Zooʼs Astor Court.

Pamela Haynes, Melissa Petersen, Laboratory Technicians

Patricia Toledo, Assistant Laboratory Technician

Mary Messing, Administrative Assistant, Librarian

Dick Blankfein, Dive Safety Officer, Volunteer Dive Program; Animal Husbandry Volunteer Coordinator

Operations and MaintenanceDennis Ethier, Director, Operations, Facilities, and Exhibit Fabrication

Melvin Pettit, Manager, FacilitiesJohn Moore, Kenneth Prichett, Ralph Ramos, William Sheehan, David Sheurich, Michael Tine, Supervising Park Maintainers

Michael Budney, Richard Bullen, Richard DiStefano, Raul Domenech, John Dougherty, Alfred Escalera, Michael Facciolo, Winstrol Hosein, Timothy Magee, Fitz-Albert Reynolds, Tony Vargas, Woodrow Weir, Park Maintainers

Patti Blydenburgh, Joyce

Cangley, Supervisors, Buildings and Grounds

Robert Caraballo, Frances Cantone, Derrick Coleman, José Gonzalez, Jarod Hagan, Peter Inesti, Tonya Johnson, Ed Lebron, Henry Lighty, Alicia Shannon, Stanley Wasserman, Attendants

Janis Robinson, Administrative Assistant

Tonya >omas, Clerk

SecuritySal DeFeo, Security ManagerJoseph Knowles III, Assistant Manager

Carlos Martinez, SupervisorSamuel Black, Owen Mayhew, Kenton Spence, Park Maintainers

Michael Antonelli, Diana Barreto, Richard Jarus, Louis Parker, Michael Wallace, Hector Weir, Assistant Park Maintainers

Admissions and ParkingJoseph Minieri, ManagerJoeanne Dudley, SupervisorFlorence Goldberg, Ticket Agent


Science ProgramsDiana Reiss, Senior Research Scientist, Marine Mammal Research Program

CENTRAL PARK ZOO Luz M. Diaz, Administrative Assistant

Beverly Moss, SecretaryNoemi Medina, Receptionist

Animal ProgramsJeffrey Sailer, CuratorYula Kapetanakos, Assistant CuratorBruce Foster, Collection ManagerAnthony Brownie, SupervisorCharles Braun, Heather Gordon, Robert Gramzay, Kristine Keating, Senior Wild Animal Keepers

Celia Ackerman, Michelle Acosta, Richard Camilli, Priyangani De Soyza, Tumeca Gittens, Alexander Humphreys, Luis Jimenez, Raymond Maguire, Melissa Mason, Amaury Quiñones, John Roderick, Gretchen Stoddard, Wild Animal Keepers

David Autry, Life Support Systems Technician

Bernadine Leahy, Senior Veterinary Technician

Operations and MaintenanceBob Gavlik, Director, City Zoos Operations

Igor Labutov, ManagerMong Lee, Assistant Manager, City Zoos Systems Specialist

Edwina Jackson, SecretaryMichael Nedd, Marlon Ragbir, Supervising Park Maintainers

Arkady Gutman, Alistair Johnson, Alvin Sookoo, Jose Torres, Park Maintainers

Wayne Martin, Supervising Attendant

Santa Alequin, Joshua Doval, Crystal Kinlaw, Audrey McAllister, Nixon Nedd, Nimia Ortiz, Geraldo Peralta, Tyrone Pinkney, Lakisha Terry, Karnen Veerapen, Attendants

HorticultureTodd J. Comstock, Manager, City Zoos Horticulture

Ingrida Knets, Assistant Horticulturist

Security and AdmissionsStephen Carey, ManagerFrank Cangiarella, John Geist, Assistant Managers

Fitzroy Neufville, Park MaintainerJohn Bohan, Felito Cuevas, Carlton Davidson, Alberto Gonzalez, John Joseph, Marilyn Maldonado, Frederic k Miller, Nestor Morera, Jaime Pagan, Everton Pearson, Rob Sutherland, Christopher Todd, Ramanen Veerapen,

Assistant Park MaintainersSonia Colon, Joanna Kittler, Sookiah Maharaj, Celvis Rock, Ticket Agents/Cashiers

PROSPECT PARK ZOOPatricia Cole, Assistant Director/Curator

Betty Allen, Senior Secretary

Animal ProgramsDominick Dorsa, SupervisorNicole Shelmidine, Assistant Supervisor

Katie Boyce, Jennifer Skelley, Leslie Steele, Frances Verna, Senior Wild Animal Keepers

Gwen Cruz, Crystal Dimiceli, Victoria DiPaolo, Hulya Israfil, Astra Kalodukas, Dennis Maroulas, Atu Marshall, Fran Moghab, Denielle Muoio, Wild Animal Keepers

Karen Wone, Veterinary Technician


Tom McGrath, ManagerStephen O’Shea, Assistant ManagerEvelyn Alexander, SecretaryOscar Ceron, Reginald McKenzie, Norbett Wescott, Park Maintainers

Wayne Peters, Supervising Attendant

Selwyn Ramnaidu, Chaitram Singh, Assistant Park Maintainers

Elizabeth Chotalal, Luis Cruz, Stacey Cummings, Donell Gatling, Eisha Johnson, Ernesto Ortiz, Attendants

HorticultureTodd J. Comstock, ManagerSecurity and AdmissionsKen Norris, ManagerJoanne Carrillo, SupervisorWilbert Barton, Lemmuel Brummell, Milton Cameron, Harold Davis, Paul DeJesus, Rogelio Dickens, Michael Fazzino, Vincent Ferguson, Patrick Osagie, Romualdo Vasquez, Milton Williams, Assistant Park Maintainers

Lola Chung, Jennifer Soto, Suheilee Vasquez, Ticket Agents

QUEENS ZOOScott Silver, Assistant Director/Curator

Animal ProgramsPaulette Soto, Administrative Assistant

Donna-Mae Graffam, SupervisorMark Hall, Assistant SupervisorMarcy Farley, Marcos Garcia, Dana Vasquez, Raul Vasquez, Senior Wild Animal Keepers

Heath Bruscato, Kelly Carman,

Barbara Fung, Ira Goldman, Susan Makower, David Morales, Samaly Pastor, James Putnam-Efthimiou, Mark Quadrozzi, Erin Rosebrock, >omas Seals, Andrea White, Wild Animal Keepers

Nina Palmer-Sweeney, Veterinary Technician


Jeffrey Blatz, Assistant ManagerRafael Genao, Bo Yang Tian, Eugene Texeira, Park Maintainer

Orlando Colon, Assistant Park Maintainer

Carol White, Supervising AttendantKrishna Dookran, Myriam Martinez, Johanny Salcedo, Carlos Valentin, Attendants

HorticultureTodd J. Comstock, ManagerJohn McBride, Assistant Horticulturist

Security and AdmissionsVince Capobianco, ManagerJose Rosado, Assistant Manager Paul Gerasimczyk, SupervisorPaul Fairall, Giovanni Franco, Leonard Golino, Anthony Mark, Garfield McEachron, Carlton Nelson, Rafael Nieves, William Rosado, Dhandeo Shankar, Allan Taylor, Assistant Park Maintainers

Tina Anderson, Joanne Crespo, Angustella Zeko, Ticket Agents

Sara Hobel, Vice President

BRONX ZOO EDUCATIONDonald C. Lisowy, CuratorMary DeRosa, Manager, Support Services

M. Kathryn Langworthy, Divisional Manager, Administration

General Audience and School Group Programs, Graduate Internships, Teacher Training, and Curriculum Development

>omas Naiman, Director, Curriculum Development and International Education Programs

Jennell Ives, Assistant Director, National Programs

Sydell Schein, Manager, Program Services

Lee Livney, Manager, Federal Grants & Distance Learning Program

Ana Laborde, Nalini Mohan, International Teacher Trainers/Curriculum Specialists

Tom Frankie, Nancy Schwartz, Shellye Valauskas, Teacher Trainers

Leslie Schneider, Coordinator, Friends of the Zoo

Ilyssa Gillman, Manager, Program Development and Instruction

Ronald Griffith, Senior InstructorKathryn Atkins, Secondary Instructor

Francesca Cristofaro, Ami Dobelle, Katie Doherty, Gabrielle Kushner, Christopher MacKay, Elementary Instructors

Erin Prada, Distance Learning Instructor

Kathleen LaMattina, Education Programs Liaison

Cayra Carroll, Divisional Administrative Assistant

Patricia Berry, Administrative Assistant

Yvonne Morgan, Program RegistrarJeanine Silversmith, Project Advisor, Teens for Planet Earth

Judith Unis, Project Coordinator, Teens for Planet Earth

Ann Robinson, Program Coordinator, SPARKS across America

NEW YORK AQUARIUM EDUCATIONMerryl Kafka, CuratorLisa Mielke, Assistant CuratorRobert Cummings, Senior Instructor

Kimberly Acevedo, Volunteer Coordinator

Melissa Carp, Corey Neiderhauser, Instructors

Desiree DeToy, Coordinator, Outreach Services

Maria Zampella, SecretaryPolly Catanzaro, Reservationist

CENTRAL PARK ZOO EDUCATIONRobert Sikora, CuratorJonathan Ellers, Senior Instructor, >eater Coordinator

Nicole Greevy, Bonnie Bromberg, Performing Instructors, Onsite Coordinators; Alison Saltz, Performing Instructor, Offsite Coordinator

Jane Donnelly, Volunteer Coordinator

Julia Jelassi, Secretary and Registrar

PROSPECT PARK ZOO EDUCATIONKaren Tingley, CuratorAudrey Lucas, Community Outreach Coordinator

QUEENS ZOO EDUCATION>omas Hurtubise, CuratorMonica Negron, Secretary and Registrar

Jessica Lissow, Community Outreach Coordinator


John Robinson, Executive Vice President for Conservation and Science, Joan O. L. Tweedy Chair in Conservation Strategy

Josh Ginsberg, Vice President, Conservation Operations

Matthew Hatchwell, European Coordinator

Senior Conservationists: William Conway, Maurice Hornocker, Bill Weber

Additional Staff: Sandra Comte, Kate Mastro, Todd Olson, Amy Pokempner

Program Development: Susan Tressler, Associate Director, Rachel Vinyard

Foundations of Success: Richard Margoluis, Nick Salafsky, Directors; Marcia Brown, Janice Davis, Caroline Stem, Vinaya Swaminathan

Species Survival Commission, IUCN: Holly Dublin, Chair

LIVING LANDSCAPESEric Sanderson, David Wilkie, Directors

Jane Carter Ingram, Leticia Orti, Assistant Directors

Additional Staff: Tim Bean, Scott Bergen, Gosia Bryja, Karl Didier, Jessica Forrest, Karen Minkowski, Erika Reuter, Samantha Strindberg

SCIENCE AND EXPLORATIONGeorge Schaller, Vice President, Ella Milbank Foshay Chair in Wildlife Conservation

Alan Rabinowitz, Executive Director

Additional Staff: Ricardo Boulhosa, Kathleen Conforti, Michael Fay, Bart Harmsen, Andrea Heydlauff, Luke Hunter, Leonardo Maffei, Katherine Marieb, Tim O’Brien, John Polisar, Scott Silver, John >orbjarnarson, Nicole Williams

CONSERVATION POLICYLinda Krueger, DirectorRay Victurine, Associate Director, Finance

Elizabeth Bennett, Director, Hunting & Wildlife Trade; Additional Staff: Scott Roberton, Vietnam, Lauren Terwilliger

Bushmeat Crisis Task Force: Heather Eves, Director, Natalie Bailey, Assistant Director

TRAINING AND CAPACITY-BUILDINGWill Banham, Associate DirectorAdditional Staff: Romina Capelli, Lynn Duda, Kate Mastro

AFRICAJames Deutsch, DirectorGraeme Patterson, Kirstin Siex, Assistant Directors

Additional Staff: Steve Blake, Nadya Cartagena, Christina Connolly, Fiona Maisels, David Moyer, Guy Picton-Phillips, Monica Wrobel

Cameroon Jackson Betty Amouko, Marc Billong, Albert Ekinde, Bernard Fosso, Roger Fotso, Marie Odile Kabeyene, Adimana Kilanga, Cynthia Lai, Hyacinth Mboh, Anthony Nchanji Chifu, Comfort Ndah Ndom, Mbalnoudji Ngodjo Ndodjim, Aaron Nicholas, David Nzouango, Jean Bosco Pouomegne

Central Africa RepublicAndrea Turkalo

Republic of CongoShane Abeare, Jim Beck, Connie Clark, Bryan Curran, Paul Elkan, Sarah Elkan, Joy Ferrante, Norbert Gami, Mark Gately, Richard Malonga, Nazaire Massamba, Germaine Mavah, Vincent Medjibe, Jerome Mokoko, David Morgan, Genevieve Ondongo Ndinga, Colby Prevost, John Poulsen, Hugo Rainey, Crickette Sanz, Emma Stokes, Paul Telfer, Hilde Van Leeuwe, Moise Zoniaba

Democratic Republic Of Congo Fidele Amsini, Ellen Brown, Leonard Chihenguza, Floribert Bujo Dhego, John Hart, Benjamin Ntumba Kaciela, Emmanuel Kayumba, Deo Kujirakwinja, Guy Mbayma, Jean-Remy Makana, Jacob Madidi, Boni Nyembo, Raymond Paluku, Baraka Othep, Robert Mwinyihali, Richard Tshombe

GabonKate Abernethy, Bruno Baert, Romain Calaque, Nerissa Chao, Eric Chehoski, Josie Demmer, Julian Easton, Angela Formia, Georges de Gersigny, Kath Jeffrey, Louise Hurst, Olly Hymas, Tomo Nishihara, Isabelle Orbell, Nigel Orbell, Rich Parnell, Malcolm Starkey, Ruth Starkey, Matt Steil, Paul Telfer, Jean-Pierre van de Weghe, Lee White, Alden Whittaker

Ivory CoastAkoi Kouadio

KenyaStephanie Dolrenry, Steven Ekwanga, Laurence Frank, Leela Hazzah, Anthony ole Kasanga, Seamus Maclennan, Alayne Mathieson, James ole Putanoi, Rosie Woodroffe

MadagascarLantoniaina Andriamampianina, Aristide Andrianarimisa, Rahary Olga Andriantsoa, Nicolas Blondel, Norolalaina

Raharitsimba Heritiana, Christopher Holmes, Jean Jacques Jaozandry, James MacKinnon, Cesaire Ramilison, Andriambololona Nirina Randimby, Luccianie Raonison, Vanessa Aliniaina Rasoamampianina, Nirina Oliva Rasoamandimby, Andriamandimbisoa Razafimpahanana

NigeriaJonas Attah, Andrew Dunn, Inaoyom Imong, Paul Mbia, Ernest Mkpe, Michael Moki, Louis Nkonyu, John Oates, Mark Otu

RwandaNsengiyunva Barakabuye, Rubayita Claude, Mulindahabi Felix, Ian Munanura, Sentama Vedaste, Hakizimana Vincent

TanzaniaPeter Coppolillo, Nuhu Daniel, Tim Davenport, Daniela de Luca, Sarah Durant, Charles Foley, Lara Foley, Sylvanus Kimiti, Ersato Lameck, Sophy Machaga, Bakari Mbano, Noah Mpunga, Ayubu Msago, Linus Munishi, Haruna Sauko, Festo Semanini, Sammuel Sikombe

UgandaSam Ayebare, Scovia Kobusingye, Alastair McNeilage, Simon Nampindo, Grace Nangendo, William Olupot, Isaiah Owiunji, Andrew J Plumptre

ZambiaWhyteson Daka, Dale Lewis, Makando Kabila, Mike Matokwani, Malambo Moonga, Handsen Mseteka, Ruth Nabuyanda, Charles Ngoma, John Nyirenda,James Phiri, Bennett Siachoone, Nemiah Tembo

ASIAColin Poole, DirectorPeter Clyne, Peter Zahler, Assistant Directors

Additional Staff: Nawang Eden, Rose King, Lisa Yook

AfghanistanInayat Ali, Alex Dehgan, Peter Bowles, Zabihullah Ejlasi, Inayatullah Farahmand, Shafiq Fedayee, Stephane Ostrowski, Haqiq Rahmani, Qais Sahar, Kara Stevens

CambodiaHong Chamnan, Song Chansocheat, Tom Clements, Tom Evans, Ashish John, Nhem Sok Heng, Long Kheng, Pet Phaktra, Khiev Rithy Phoin, Edward Pollard, Heng Sambath, Tao Sarath, Tan Setha, Men Soriyun, Heng Sovannara, Martin Tyson, Sun Visal, Joe Walston

ChinaYan Xie, Langhua Du, Youcai Du, Youmei Du, Aili Kang, Eve Li, Lishu Li, Shengbiao Li, Donna Xiao, Zirong Li, Wei Wang, Xiang Zhou

IndiaUllas Karanth, Arjun Gopalaswamy, Jagkish Krishnaswamy, Ajith Kumar, Samba Kumar

IndonesiaHarry Alexander, Noviar Andayani, Aslan, Nick Brickle, Bonie Dewantara, Edison, David Gaveau, Donny Gunaryadi, Iwan Hunowu, Leswarawati, Dwi Nugroho, Meyner Nusalawo, Frida Mindasari Saanin, Stephen Siwu, John Tasirin, Hariyo Wibisono, Prianto Wibowo

Lao PDR Chris Hallam, Troy Hansel, Michael Hedemark, Arlyne Johnson, Jim Johnston, Alex McWilliam, Souvany Oumany, Bounthavi Phommachanh, Akchousanh Rasphone, Santi Saypanya, Phonevanh Sinthammavong, Kelly Spence, Renae Stenhouse, Soumalie Sygnavong, Soulisak Vannalath, Duangphet Vannavong, Venevongphet

Malaysia Shiek Leng Boon, Cynthia Chin, Melvin Gumal, Jason Hon, Norhayani Jalaweh, John Mathai, Michael Meredith, Wegess Midok, Nural Azura Mohd Naim, Sylvia Ng, Kelawing Jok Ngau, Joshua Pandong, June Rubis, Jephte Sompud, Nurulhuda Zakaria

MongoliaAmanda Fine, Losolmaa Jambal, Ochirkhuyag Lkhamjav, Odonchimeg Nyamtseren, Chimedtseren Oldokh, Kirk Olson, Bolortsetseg Sanjaa, Agizul Sosor, Susann Townsend, Ann Winters

MyanmarDaw Bibiana Chit, Will Duckworth, Daw San San Htay, U Saw Htun, U Win Ko Ko, U Kyaw >inn Latt, U >an Myint, Daw Khin Myo Myo, Daw Myint Myint Oo, U Saw Htoo >a Po, U Htun Shaung, Daw Myint >ida, U Zaw Win, U >an Zaw

PakistanMayoor Khan

Papua New GuineaFrank Clarke, Banak Gamui, Paul Igag, Jephat Kol, Anna Koki, Leo Legra, Andrew Mack, Miriam Supuma, Debra Wright

RussiaJohn Goodrich, Natalia Karp,


Nikolai Kazakov, Alexei Kostyria, Trond Lovdal, Vladimir Melnikov, Dale Miquelle, John Paczkowski, Tanya Perova, Nikolai Reebin, Ivan Serodkin, Svetlana Soutryina

ThailandLamthai Arsanork, >ongbai Charoendong, Manat Inchum, Pornkamol Jomburom, Nont Keawwan, Petch Manopawitr, Panomporn Patithus, Puntipa Pattanakaew, Anak Pattanavibool, Yossawadee Rakpongpan, Jiraporn Teampanpong, Mayuree Umponjan, Kwanchai Waitanyakarn

RegionalEtienne Delattre, Simon Hedges, Antony Lynam, Madhu Rao

LATIN AMERICA AND CARIBBEANAvecita Chicchón, DirectorAnton Seimon, Mariana Varese, Assistant Directors

Additional Staff: Romina Capelli, Zachery Feris, Alexandra Rojas

ArgentinaFelicity Arengo, Ricardo Baldi, Dee Boersma, Maria José Bolgeri, José Ignacio Bonaccorso, Claudio Campagna, Silvia Chalukian, Valeria Falabella, Esteban Frere, Martin Funes, Ana Carla Galli, Patricia Gandini, Alejandro Gonzalez, Graham Harris, Patricia Harris, Luis Jacome, Santiago Krapovickas, Juan Masello, Patricia Marconi, Rob McGill, Andrés Novaro, Flavio Quintana, Adrian Schiavini, Alejandro Vila, Susan Walker, Pablo Yorio, Carolina Zambruno, Victoria Zavattieri

BrazilAna Rita Alves, Martha Argel, Ricardo Boulhosa, Sandra Cavalcanti, Valéria Guimarães, Alexine Keuroghlian, Fernanda Marques, Claudia Pereira de Deus, Helder Queiroz, Fabio Rohe, Eduardo Venticinque

BoliviaAlejandro Arambiza, Guido Ayala, Rosario Arispe, Oscar Castillo, Erika Cuéllar, Rosa Leny Cuéllar,

Senior Veterinarian Bonnie Raphael, field scientist Rosie Woodroffe, and General Curator Patrick Thomas administer canine distemper vaccine to a wild dog.

Eric Eulert, Leticia Faldín, Amanda García, Ingrid Gironda, Kantuta Lara, Oscar Loayza, Alfonso Llobet, Leo Maffei, Guido Miranda, Rossy Montaño, Rodolfo Nallar, Andrew Noss, Lilian Painter, Michael Painter, Omar Rocha, Linda Rosas, Damián Rumiz, Elvira Salinas, Teddy Siles, Robert Wallace

ChileRodolfo Alarcón, Cristóbal Briceño, Mauricio Chacón, Luis Escalona, Paola Etchegaray, Javier Gómez, Roberto Medina, Custodio Millán, Claudio Moraga, Anthony Muñoz, Ricardo Muza, Bárbara Saavedra, Juan Sotomayor

ColombiaDarío Correa, Carolina Gómez, Gustavo Kattan, Carolina Murcia, Vladimir Rojas, Carlos Valderrama

EcuadorAdriana Burbano, Mauricio Castillo, Gloria Figueiredo, Erika Olmedo, Esteban Suárez, Victor Utreras,

MesoamericaMario Boza, Archie Carr III, Eduardo Carrillo, Bayron Castellanos, Peter Feinsinger, Rony García, Rosario Guerra, Roan McNab, Bruce Miller,

Carolyn Miller, América Rodríguez, Victor Hugo Ramos, Julieta Carrión De Samudio, Rafael Samudio

PeruMiguel Antunez, Richard Bodmer, Roxana Pezo, Pablo Puertas

VenezuelaIsaac Goldstein, Félix Daza, Carolina Bertsch

MARINECheri Recchia, DirectorLiz Lauck, Assistant DirectorAdditional Staff: Barbara Newman, Sarah Pacyna

Global/RegionalAndrew Baker, Salvatore Cerchio, Tim Collins, Charlotte de Fontaubert, Daniel Erickson, Rachel Graham, Tim McClanahan, Nyawira Muthiga, Howard Rosenbaum, Brian Smith

Bangladesh Benazir Ahmed, M. Abdullah Abu Diyan, Elisabeth Anne Fahrni Mansur, Rubaiyat Mansur Mowgli

BelizeCharles Acosta, Suzanne Arnold, Jose Cab, Archie Carr III, Martha Casimiro, Dan Castellanos, Philip Castillo, Cordelia Che, Robin


Coleman, Annick Cros, Janet Gibson, Roy Herrera, Sergio Hoare, Rita Leslie, Randolph Nunez, Apolonio Olivas, Roy Polonio, Rozinell Rodriquez, Enric Sala, Edward Solomon, Robert Steneck, Fagan Villanueva, Benjamin Wainwright, Danny Wesby, Sandra Zelaya

Fiji

Akanisi Caginitoba, Sirilo Dulunaqio, Alice Heffernan, Kini Kotomailautoka, Wayne Houng Lee, Waisea Naisilisili, Alexander Patrick, Ingrid Quaqua, Etika Rupeni, Betani Salusalu, Loraini Sivo, Alipate Tavainaqara, Moala Tokataa, >omas Richard Tui, Kathy Walls, Naushad Yakub

IndonesiaRizya Ardiwijaya, Stuart Campbell, Yudi Herdiana, Yulianto Irfan, Tasrif Kartawijaya, Susy Mawarwati, Ahmad Mukminin, Sinta Pardede, Rian Prasetia, Ripanto, Fakhrizal Setiawan

KenyaCaroline Abunge, Mebrahtu Ateweberhan, Josh Cinner, Christina Hicks, Joan Kawaka, Kitema, Joseph Maina, James Mariara, Patrick Mutisya, Moses Mwambogo, Johnstone Omkoto, Andrew Wamukoto

MadagascarSetra Andriamanaitra, Norbert Andrianarivelo, Gaston Dera, Raoul Olivier Jaonazandry, Jean Makoa, José Maro, Raharilala Mathieu, Francisco Ramananjatovo, Eva Lovaniaina Ramino, Herilala Randriamahazo, Bemahafaly Randriamanantsoa, Rivo Josue Randriantsaha, Yvette Razafindrakoto

MyanmarAung Myo Chit

Nicaragua Andrew Anderson, Waldimar Brooks, Henry Burton, Ralf Cambalan, Cathi Campbell, Alma Carlos, Rodolfo Chang, Lorna Churnside, Cecil Clark, Victoria Cordi, Margarit Downs, Carson Garth, Sonia Gautreau, Lindon Hebberth, Margie Hing, Roy Hodgson, Victor Huertas, Patrick Humphreys, José Humphries,Rubin Julio, Cynthia Lagueux, Harry Laury, Mitchel McCoy, William McCoy, Aida Morris, >elia Narcisso, Ermicinda Pong, Rodrigo Renales, Edgar >eodore, Francela >omas

PanamaInocencio Castillo, Anne Meylan, Peter Meylan

Papua New Guinea

Simeon Daple, Fraser Hartley, Maunoa Karo, Roselyn Koi, John Tagai Kuange, Rachael Lahari, Tau Morove, Helen Perks, John Vegala

NORTH AMERICAJodi Hilty, Assistant DirectorAdditional Staff: Shirley Atkinson, Kevin Gorman, Shannon Roberts, Darren Long, Melissa Richey

Greater Yellowstone EcosystemRob Ament, Jon Beckmann, Joel Berger, Kim Berger, Brent Brock, Jeff Burrell, Cecily Costello, Molly Cross, Bebe Crouse, Craig Groves, Kris Inman, Bob Inman, Chris Jenkins, Louise Lasley, Darren Long, Tony McCue, Mark Packila, Meghan Quinn, Jesse Newby, Melissa Richey, Shannon Roberts, Toni Ruth, Andra Toivola, Leigh Work

Pacific West and AlaskaKerry Farris, Joe Liebezeit, Sean Matthews, Katy Wang, Steve Zack

AdirondacksAngie Cook, Michale Glennon, Jerry Jenkins, Leslie Karasin, Heidi Kretser, Amy Sauer, Nina Schoch, Zoë Smith

Metropolitan Conservation AllianceMichael Klemens, Danielle Labruna, Kevin Ryan, Amy Sauer

CanadaBiz Agnew, Jenni McDermid, Justina Ray, Don Reid, John Weaver, Gillian Woolmer

Dispersed ResearchBill McShea, Adrian Treves

Patricia Calabrese, Executive Vice President for Administration & Chief Financial Officer

Dalma Crisostomo-Ward, Executive Assistant

Brenda Burbach, Environmental Compliance Specialist

Gerard Tibbs, Evan Randolf, Mailroom

BUDGET AND FINANCIAL PLANNING Sarah Gillman, Vice President Regina Burke, Director Cecile Koehler, Assistant Director Kelly Cavanaugh, Maria Corvino, Managers

AccountingRobert Calamo, Vice President and Comptroller

Ronald Ventarola, Assistant Comptroller

Gwendolyn Cleary, Chief Accountant

Albert Corvino, Director, Restricted Fund and Government Grants

Lori Bueti, Executive SecretaryTalia Ann Aliberti, Payroll ManagerJoan Jones, Accounts Payable Manager

Howard Forbes, Manager, Cashroom, Guest Services Accounting

Linda Asbaty, Supervising Accountant

Jacklyn Bui, Alicia Wyatt, Senior Accountants

Michael Regan, AccountantDonna M. Marano, Michelle Mora, Isobel Onorato, Dolores Papaleo, Supervisors

Ernesto Banaag, Buenafe Manongdo, Sonya Meltzer, Maureen Salvatto, Senior Clerks

Patricia Espinoza, Rose Gilberti, Jean McNally, Annabelle Olmeda,

Niurka Garcia, Jacqueline Sgueglia, Clerks

Julienne Hollingworth, Senior Cashier

Irene Martinez, Vivian Villa, Cashiers

INTERNATIONAL SERVICE CENTERRobert Calamo, DirectorCarlos Hornillos-Dalisme, Peggy O’Shaughnessy, Assistant Directors

Linda Percy, Africa Finance Coordination

Lillian Bonilla, Raquel Díaz, Laura Perozo, Finance Managers

HUMAN RESOURCESMiriam Benitez, Vice PresidentZulma Rivera, DirectorRich Sowinski, Safety DirectorGarnet Vaccaro, Assistant Director of Benefits

Pamela Watim, International HR Rep.

Zellee Jones, Seasonal ManagerSandra Gonzalez, David Meyers Recruiters

Izzy Harris, Assistant Manager Monique Santiago, AssistantSue Vargas, Coordinator Vanessa Pinkney, Receptionist/HR Clerk

Rexford Osei, Receptionist

BUSINESS SERVICESRobert A. Moskovitz, Vice President

John Chopey, Assistant Director, Finance & Administration

Randi Winter, Assistant Director, Guest Programming & Creative Services

Robert DiCesare, Manager, SystemsDanielle Scire, Manager, Presentation & Promotion

Dave Della Fave, Manager, Loss Prevention

Audra Browne, Jacqui Dauphinais,

Ileana Figueroa, Maureen Garvey, Administrative Assistants

RestaurantsNiko Radjenovic, DirectorJoe Yenalevitch, Assistant Director, Culinary Services

Lysa Roseborough, Assistant Director, Bronx Zoo

Angella Modeste, Manager, Bronx Zoo

John Lipari, Kitchen Manager, Bronx Zoo

Tarik Castro, Celenia Garcia, Melanie Otero, Rodney Rollins, Victorina Sierra, Supervisors, Bronx Zoo

Brenda Williams, Cache Rodriquez, Virgin Colon, Unit Managers, Bronx Zoo

Tony Uricco, Storekeeper, Bronx Zoo

Ray Jackson, Cook, Bronx ZooJimmy Coleman, Oliver Morton, ACE Specialists, Bronx Zoo

Angela Christenson, Manager, NY Aquarium

Chantal Robinson, Supervisor, NY Aquarium

Rocco Turco, Unit Manager, NY Aquarium

Cynthia Browne, Assistant Unit Manager, NY Aquarium

MerchandiseMike Casella, DirectorRosanne Pignatelli, Merchandise Manager

Valerie McKee, Assistant Director, Bronx Zoo

Margaret Murphy, Manager, Bronx Zoo

Charles Braithwaite, Manager, Bronx Zoo Warehouse

Denise Guzman, Oneika Lewis, Supervisors, Bronx Zoo

James Lo, Storekeeper, Bronx Zoo Warehouse

Patricia Peters, Maria Ortega ACE Specialists, Bronx Zoo Warehouse

Albert Martinez, Margarita Miranda, Laura Moret, James Vazquez, Senior Associates, Bronx Zoo Warehouse

Carol Johnston, Manager, Central Park Zoo

Olga Rivera, Supervisor, Central Park Zoo

Russell Crawley, Manager, NY Aquarium

Robert Larot, Supervisor, NY Aquarium

Derrik Clarke, ACE Specialist, NY Aquarium

Guest ServicesSean McAllister, DirectorPhyllis Fritz, Assistant Director, Bronx Zoo Admissions & Parking

Chris Filomio, Assistant Director, Bronx Zoo Ride Operations

Joe Minieri, Manager, Bronx Zoo Admissions & Parking


Kevin Franqui, Manager, Bronx Zoo Ride Operations

Chris Papaleo, Manager, Group Ticketing Services

Stephanie Bailey, Georgia Burke, Ivelisse Velasquez, Supervisors/Bronx Zoo Admissions & Parking

Jim Fitzgerald, Sandra Nino-Franqui, Joe Power, Maryann Ruberto, Supervisors, Bronx Zoo Ride Operations

Nellie Cruz, Supervisor, Group Ticketing Services

Michelle Silva, Customer Service Rep, Group Ticketing Services

Joeanne Dudley, Manager, NY Aquarium Guest Services

Antonio Medina, Supervisor, NY Aquarium Guest Services

HUMAN HEALTH SERVICESJanet Brahm, Nurse ManagerKaren Klein, Nurse

PURCHASINGJames Morley, DirectorWalter Aufseeser, SupervisorBrenda Diaz, Purchasing AgentGina Liranzo-Estrada, Purchasing Specialist

Melissa Latchman, Purchasing Clerk

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGYPaula L. Simon, Vice President, Chief Technology Officer

Michael Mariconda, Director and Department Head

Fran Sorge, Telecommunications Support Supervisor

Arul Chellaraj, Senior System Administrator

Marco Marvucic, Jonathan Stallone, Network Analyst

Jonathan Palmer, Director, International Information & Communication

Allegra Hamer, Director, Systems & Audio-Visual

Joel Papierman, Senior Information Systems Specialist

Reed Harlan, John Hurel, Systems Support Specialists

Al Moini, Customer Support Supervisor

Nick Dematteo, Joseph Padilla, Audio-Visual Services Specialist

Ralph Palumbo, Customer Support Assistant

Maria Masciotti, Senior Vice President

Dale Ann Brooks, Director, Corporate Relations and Special Events

Carolyn Gray, Director, Foundation Relations

Linde Ostro, Director, Individual Giving

Gale Page, Director, MembershipLauren Rabin, Director, OperationsTiffany Reiser-Jacobson, Director, Campaign Communications and Events

Olivia van Melle Kamp, Director, National Councils and Travel Program

Senior Development OfficersLynette Ardis, Conservation PatronsSusan Cooper, Information SystemsLaura Elmore, Cherie Wasoff, Individual Giving

Allison Goldberg, OperationsKathryn Vann, Foundation Relations

Development OfficersSylvia Alexander, Justin Courter, Ken Shallenberg, Susan Stenquist Monserrat, Foundation Relations

Chandra Towers Blatt, Planned Giving

Lisa Bottomley, Michelle Kahn, Special Events

Stephanie Cook, Major GiftsAmie Figueiredo, Amy Hersh, Corporate Relations

Felicia Hamerman, Jordana Newler, Campaign

Stacey Szewczyk, Stacy Zito, Individual Giving

Development AssociatesErin Archuleta, Executive ProjectsJessica Castellano, Conservation Patrons

Rebekah Grote, OperationsDawn Santin, National Councils and Travel Program

Pimolwan Savetmalanond, ResearchSofia Swikata, Foundation Relations

Development AssistantsKatherine Cronin, National Councils and Travel Program

Mary Deyns, Campaign Communications and Events

Sally Huffstetler, Assistant to Senior Vice President

Annie Mark, Ann Phelan, Individual Giving

Nao Ohtsuki, Corporate RelationsLisa Perfetto, Special EventsDianna Russell, Mary Ann Venticinque-Malkin, Operations

Mandy Tshibangu, Foundation Relations

Aaron Uddin, Conservation Patrons

MEMBERSHIPRhonda Lewis-Warren, Assistant Director, New Business and Acquisitions

Joseph Kern, Manager, Membership Site Sales

Laura Lauria, Assistant Manager, Membership Programs

Kate Yun, Assistant Manager, New Business and Acquisitions

Cynthia Gonzalez, Venus Ramos,

Supervisors, Site SalesEliza Lazo, Kendra Rae Whitmore, Assistant Supervisors, Site Sales

Dorothy Moura, Assistant Coordinator, Membership Services

John Calvelli, Senior Vice President Denise Browne, Executive Assistant Jan Kaderly, Director Kathi Schaeffer, Manager Maggie Byrne, Administrative Assistant/Coordinator

New York Aquarium Public AffairsCynthia Reich, Deputy DirectorKate Fitzgerald, ManagerFran Hackett, Associate Manager, Communications

Kenyell Smalls, Assistant Manager, Events

Government & Community Affairs Charles Vasser, Director, Community Affairs

Rosemary DeLuca, Assistant Director, City & State Affairs

Kelly Keenan Aylward, Assistant Director, Federal Affairs DC

Kevin Garrelick, Manager, Government Grants

Marla Krauss, Manager, NOAA Partnership

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Navoneel Dayanand, Federal Affairs Officer DC

Michael Salamon, Federal Affairs Associate DC

Communications Linda Corcoran, Stephen Sautner, Assistant Directors

John Delaney, Scott Smith, Managers

Kate McIntyre, Manager, CPZ Alison Reiser, Associate Manager, Bronx Zoo

Barbara Russo Associate Manager, CPZ

Stephen Fairchild, Senior Producer, Television & Media

Natalie Cash, Senior Producer, Media Partnerships

MARKETINGJesse Ewing, Vice President Margaret Price, Assistant Director, Marketing Operations

Gina Talarico, Assistant ManagerDiana Warren, Account Manager

Event Marketing Rachel Libretti, Director Anthony Petrone, Associate Manager, Public Events

Mary Beth Gaffney, Associate Manager Corporate & Private Events

Lillian Valentin, Manager, CPZAlicia Sells, Associate Manager CPZ

Group SalesSandra Matthews, Manager Timothy Kirk, Cynthia Villanueva, Erik Weinberg, Account Executives

Media Production CenterKaren Spiak, Creative Director Julie Maher, Manager. Photographic Services

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Jose Serrano, Associate Manager Online Services

Luke Groskin, Associate Manager Video Services

Suzanne Bolduc, Associate Manager Photo Collection

Joshua Krause, Art Director Marisa Hodges, Graphic Designer

Wildlife Conservation MagazineDeborah Behler, Editor-in-Chief Nancy Simmons, Senior Editor Jennifer Shalant, Web Writer Carol Burke, Editorial/Circulation Manager

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W. B. McKeown, Senior Vice President and General Counsel

Evelyn J. Junge, Deputy General Counsel

Elizabeth Donovan, Alexa Holmes, Danièle Pascal-Dajer, María Elena Urriste, Assistant General Counsels

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Tessa Cayley-Wieler, Scott Wight, Administrative Assistants


Staff

Chapman, Colin, Michael Wasserman, and >omas Gillespie. 2006. Behavioral patterns of Colobus in logged and unlogged Forests. In: Primates of Western Uganda. Eds. Nicholas E. Newton-Fisher, Hugh Notman, James D. Paterson, and Vernon Reynolds, 373-90. New York: Springer.

Langerhans, R. B., L. J. Chapman, and T. J. DeWitt. 2007. Complex phenotype-environment associations revealed in an East African cyprinid. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 20: 1171-81.

Londońo, Gustavo A., Marcia C. Muńoz, and Margarita M. Rios. 2007. Density and natural history of the sickle-winged guan (Chamaepetes goudotii) in the Central Andes, Colombia. Wilson Journal of Ornithology 119, no. 2: 228-38.

Pereira, Javier A., Natalia G. Fracassi, and Marcela M. Uhart. 2006. Numerical and spatial responses of Geoffroy’s cat (Oncifelis geoffroyi) to prey decline in Argentina. Journal of Mammalogy 87, no. 6: 1132-39.

Platt, Steven G., >omas R. Rainwater, Scott Snider, Anthony Garel, Todd A. Anderson, Scott T. McMurry. 2007. Consumption of large mammals by Crocodylus moreletii: Field observations of necrophagy and interspecific kleptoparasitism. Southwestern Naturalist 52, no. 2: 310-317.

Plumptre, Andrew. 2006. >e diets, preferences, and overlap of the primate community in the Budongo Forest Reserve, Uganda. In: Primates of Western Uganda. 345-71.

Radhakrishna, S., A. B. Goswami, and A. Sinha. 2006. Distribution and conservation of Nycticebus bengalensis in northeastern India. International Journal of Primatology 27: 971-82.

Rivas, Jesús A., MarÍa C. Muńoz, John B. >orbjarnarson, Gordon B. Burghardt, William Holmstrom, and Paul P. Calle. 2007. Natural history of the green Anaconda (Eunectes murinus) in the Venezuelan Llanos. In: "e Biology of Boas and Pythons: A Retrospective Look to the Future. Eds Robert W.

Henderson, and Robert Powell. Eagle Mountain, Utah: Eagle Mountain Publishing.

Rode, Karyn D., Patrick I. Chiyo, Colin A. Chapman, and Lee R. McDowell. 2006. Nutritional ecology of elephants in Kibale National Park, Uganda, and its relationship with crop-raiding behaviour. Journal of Tropical Ecology 22, no. 04: 441-49.

Sanz, Crickette, David Morgan, Samantha Strindberg, and Jean Robert Onononga. 2007. Distinguishing between the nests of sympatric chimpanzees and gorillas. Journal of Applied Ecology 44, no. 2: 263-72.

Stokes, Emma, and Richard Byrne. 2006. Effect of snare injuries on the fig-feeding behavior of chimpanzees of the Budongo Forest, Uganda. In: Primaters of Western Uganda.

Van Holt, Tracy, Diane M. Murphy, and Lauren Chapman. 2006. Local and landscape predictors of fish-assemblage characteristics in the Great Swamp, New York. Northeastern Naturalist 13, no. 3: 353-74.

Weckel, M., W. Giuliano, and S. Silver. 2006. Jaguar (Panthera onca) feeding ecology: distribution of predator and prey through time and space. Journal of Zoology 270, no. 1: 25-30.

Karanth, K. U. 2006. "e Way of the tiger. Ed. K. U. Karanth. India: Universities Press.

Sanderson, Eric W., Ed. 2006. "e human footprint : Challenges for wilderness and biodiversity. Mexico City : Cemex .

Schaller, George B. 2007. A naturalist and other beasts: Tales from a life in the field. Sierra Club Books.

McNeilage, Alastair, and Martha M. Robbins. 2007. Primatology comes to Africa. African Journal of Ecology 45, no. 1: 1-3.

Plumptre, Andrew J., Tim R. B. Davenport, Mattias Kityo Robert Behangana, Gerald Eilu, Paul Ssegawa, Corneille Ewango, Danny Meirte, Charles Kahindo,

Marc Herremans, Julian Kerbis Peterhans, John D. Pilgrim, Malcolm Wilson, Marc Languy, and David Moyer. 2007. >e biodiversity of the Albertine Rift. Biological Conservation 134, no. 2: 178-94.

Shekelle, Myron, Rudolf Meier, Mochamad Indrawan, Ibnu Maryanto, Agus Salim, Jatna Supriatna, Noviar Andayani, and Wirdateti. 2007. When “not extinct” is not good news: Conservation in the Sangihe Islands. Conservation Biology 21, no. 1: 4-5.

Adeney, J. M., J. R. Ginsberg, G. J. Russell, and M. F. Kinnaird. 2006. Effects of an ENSO-related fire on birds of a lowland tropical forest in Sumatra. Animal Conservation 9, no. 3: 292-301.

Bali, A., A. Kumar, and J. Krishnaswamy. 2007. >e mammalian communities in coffee plantations around a protected area in the Western Ghats, India. Biological Con-servation 139, no. 1-2: 93-102.

Blake, S., S. Strindberg, P. Boudjan, C. Makombo, I. Bila-Isia, O. Ilambu, F. Grossmann, L. Bene-Bene, B. Semboli, V. Mbenzo, D. S’hwa, R. Bayogo, E. A. Williamson, M. Fay, J. A. Hart, and F. Maisels. 2007. Forest elephant crisis in equatorial Africa. PLOS Biology 5, no. 4: 1-9.

Bwanika, G. N., L. J. Chapman, Y. Kizito, and J. Balirwa. 2006. Cascading effects of introduced Nile perch (Lates niloticus) on the foraging ecology of Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus). Ecology of Freshwater Fish 15, no. 4: 470-481.

Carroll, Carlos, and Dale G. Miquelle. 2006. Spatial viability analysis of Amur tiger Panthera tigris altaica in the Russian Far East: the role of protected areas and landscape matrix in population persistence. Journal of Applied Ecology 43, no. 6: 1056-68.

Conand, C., N. Muthiga, R. Aumeeruddy, M. De La Torre Castro, P. Frouin, Y. Mgaya, E. Mirault, J. Ochiewo, and R.

Rasolofonirina. 2006. A three year regional project on sea cucumbers in the south-western Indian ocean: National and regional analysis to improve management. S.P.C. Beche-De-Mer Inf Bull 23: 11-15.

Dinerstein, Eric, Colby Loucks, Eric Wikramanayake, Joshua Ginsberg, Eric Sanderson, John Seidensticker, Jessica Forrest, Gosia Bryja, Andrea Heydlauff, Sybille Klenzendorf, Peter Leimgruber, Judy Mills, Timothy G. O’Brien, Mahendra Shrestha, Ross Simons, and Melissa Songer. 2007. >e fate of wild tigers. BioScience 57, no. 6: 508-14.

Duckworth, J. W., and T. D. Evans. 2007. First records of white-browed crake (Porzana cinerea) for Laos and its current range in Southeast Asia. Wilson Journal of Ornithology 119, no. 2: 254-59.

Durant, Sarah M., Sultana Bashir, >omas Maddox, and M. Karen Laurenson. 2007. Relating long-term studies to conservation practice: >e case of the Serengeti Cheetah Project. Conservation Biology 21, no. 3: 602-11.

Fitzherbert, Emily, Toby Gardner, Tim R. B. Davenport, and Tim Caro. 2006. Butterfly species richness and abundance in the Katavi ecosystem of western Tanzania. African Journal of Ecology 44, no. 3: 353-62.

Gompper, Matthew E., Roland W. Kays, Justina C. Ray, Scott D. Lapoint, Daniel A. Bogan, and Jason R. Cryan. 2006. A comparison of noninvasive techniques to survey carnivore communities in Northeastern North America. Wildlife Society Bulletin 34, no. 4: 1142-51.

Goswami, V. R., M. D. Madhusudan, and K. U. Karanth. 2007. Application of photo capture-recapture modelling to estimate demographic parameters for male Asian elephants. Animal Conservation 10, no. 3: 391-99.

Herzog, Carl J., Roland W. Kays, Justina C. Ray, Matthew E. Gompper, William J. Zielinski, Richard Higgins, and Mike Tymeson. 2007. Using patterns in track-plate footprints to identify individual fishers. Journal of Wildlife Management


71, no. 3: 955-63.

Karanth, K. U., J. D. Nichols, N. S. Kumar, and J. E. Hines. 2006. Assessing tiger population dynamics using photographic capture-recapture sampling. Ecology 87: 2925-37.

Kattan, Gustavo H., Padu Franco, Carlos A. Saavedra-Rodriguez, Carlos Valderrama, Vladimir Rojas, Daniel Osorio, and Jesus Martinez. 2006. Spatial components of bird diversity in the Andes of Colombia: Implications for designing a regional reserve system. Conservation Biology 20, no. 4: 1203-11.

Magoun, Audrey J., Justina C. Ray, Devin S. Johnson, Patrick Valkenburg, F. Neil Dawson, and Jeff Bowman. 2007. Modeling wolverine occurrence using aerial surveys of tracks in snow. Journal of Wildlife Management 71, no. 7: 2221-29.

McClanahan, T., M. Ateweberhan, C. Ruiz Sebastián, N. Graham, S. Wilson, J. Bruggemann, and M. Guillaume. 2007. Predictability of coral bleaching from synoptic satellite and in situ temperature observations. Coral Reefs 26, no. 3: 695-701.

McNeilage, Alastair, Martha M. Robbins, Maryke Gray, William Olupot, Dennis Babaasa, Robert Bitariho, Aventino Kasangaki, Helga Rainer, Steven Asuma, Ghad Mugiri, and Julia Baker. 2007. Census of the mountain gorilla Gorilla beringei beringei population in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda. Oryx 40, no. 04: 419-27.

Mudappa, D., B. R. Noon, A. Kumar, and R. Chellam. 2007. Responses of small carnivores to rainforest fragmentation in the southern Western Ghats, India. Small Carnivore Conservation 36: 18-26.

Plumptre, Andrew, Deo Kujirakwinjaa, Andrian Treves, Isaiah Owiunjia, and Helga Rainer. 2007. Transboundary conservation in the greater Virunga landscape: Its importance for landscape species. Biological Conservation 134, no. 2: 279-87.

Prasad, Soumya, Jagdish Krishnaswamy, Ravi Chellam, and Surendra Prakash Goyal.

2006. Ruminant-mediated seed dispersal of an economically valuable tree in Indian dry forests. Biotropica 38, no. 5: 679-82.

Rawson, B., T. Clements, and N. M. Hor. 2007. Status and conservation of yellow-cheeked crested gibbons (Nomascus gavriellae) in the Seima Biodiversity Conservation Area, Mondulkiri Province, Cambodia. In: "e Gibbons: New perspectives on small apes socioecology and population biology. Eds. S. Lappan, D. Whittaker, and T. Geissmann. Berlin: Springer.

Ríos-Uzeda, Boris, Humberto Gómez, and Robert B. Wallace. 2007. A preliminary density estimate for Andean bear using camera-trapping methods. Ursus 18, no. 1: 124-28.

Rumiz, D. I., E. Pardo, C. F. Eulert, R. Arispe, R. B. Wallace, H. Gomez, and B. Rios-Uzeda. 2007. New records and a status assessment of a rare dwarf brocket deer from the montane forests of Bolivia. Journal of Zoology 271, no. 4: 428-36.

Sinha, A., R. S. Kumar, N. Gama, M. D. Madhusudan, and C. Mishra. 2006. Distribution and conservation status of the Arunachal macaque, Macaca munzala, in Western Arunachal Pradesh, Northeastern India. Primate Conservation 21: 145-48.

Smith, Brian D., Gill Braulik, Samantha Strindberg, Benazir Ahmed, and Rubaiyat Mansur. 2006. Abundance of Irrawaddy dolphins (Orcaella brevirostris) and Ganges River dolphins (Platanista gangetica gangetica) estimated using concurrent counts made by independent teams in waterways of the sundarbans mangrove forest in Bangladesh. Marine Mammal Science 22, no. 3: 527-47.

Williams-Guillen, K., C. McCann, J. C. Martinez Sanchez, and F. Koontz. 2006. Resource availability and habitat use by mantled howling monkeys in a Nicaraguan coffee plantation: Can agroforests serve as core habitat for a forest mammal? Animal Conservation 9, no. 3: 331-38.

Xie, Y., and S. Wang. 2007. Conservation status of Chinese species. Integrative Zoology 2, no. 1: 26-35.

Bennett, Elizabeth L., Eric Blencowe, Katrina Brandon, David Brown, Robert W. Burn, Guy Cowlishaw, Glyn Davies, Holly Dublin, John E. Fa, E. J. Milner-Gulland, John G. Robinson, J. Marcus Rowcliffe, Fiona M. Underwood, and David S. Wilkie. 2007. Hunting for consensus: Reconciling bushmeat harvest, conservation, and development policy in West and Central Africa. Conservation Biology 21, no. 3: 884-87.

Campagna, Claudio, Valeria Falabella, and Mirtha Lewis. 2007. Entanglement of Southern Elephant seals in squid fishing gear. Marine Mammal Science 23, no. 2: 414-18.

Gubbi, S. 2007. Rights of forest dwellers in India. Oryx 41, no. 1: 16.

Johnson, A., C. Vongkhamheng, M. Hedemark, and T. Saithongdam. 2006. Effects of human-carnivore conflict on tiger (Panthera tigris) and prey populations in Lao PDR. Animal Conservation 9: 421-30.

Karesh, William B., Robert A. Cook, Martin Gilbert, and James Newcomb. 2007. Implications of wildlife trade on the movement of avian influenza and other infectious diseases. Journal of Wildlife Diseaes 43: S55-S59.

Naughton-Treves, Lisa, Daniel M. Kammen, and Colin Chapman. 2007. Burning biodiversity: Woody biomass use by commercial and subsistence groups in western Uganda’s forests. Biological Conservation 134: 232-41.

Peters, Charles M., Andrew Henderson, U Myint Maung, U Saw Lwin, U Tin Maung Ohn, U Kyaw Lwin, and U Tun Shaung. 2007. >e rattan trade of Northern Myanmar: Species, supplies, and sustainability. Economic Botany 61, no. 1: 3-13.

Sodhi, N., T. Brooks, P. K. Lian, G. Acciaioli, M. Erb, A. Tan, L. Curran, P. Brosius, T. M. Lee, J. Patlis, M. Gumal, and R. Lee. 2006. Biodiversity and human livelihood crises in the Malay Archipelago. Conservation Biology 20, no. 6: 1811-13.

Wilkie, D. S., M. Starkey, E. L. Bennett, K. Abernethy, R. Fotso,

F. Maisels, and P. Elkan. 2006. Can taxation contribute to sustainable management of the bushmeat trade? Evidence from Gabon and Cameroon. Journal of International Wildlife Law and Policy 9 , no. 4: 335-49.

Graham, R. T., and C. M. Roberts. 2007. Assessing the size, growth and structure of a seasonal population of whale sharks (Rhincodon typus Smith 1828) using conventional tagging and photo identification. Fisheries Research 84: 71-80.

Pomilla, Cristina, and Howard C. Rosenbaum. 2006. Estimates of relatedness in groups of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) on two wintering grounds of the Southern Hemisphere. Molecular Ecology 15, no. 9: 2541-55.

Rios-Uzeda, Boris, and Robert B. Wallace. 2007. Estimating the size of the Andean Condor population in the Apolobamba Mountains of Bolivia. Journal of Field Ornithology 78, no. 2: 170-175.

Gilbert, Martin, Richard T. Watson, Munir Z. Virani, J. Lindsay Oaks, Shakeel Ahmed, Muhammad Jamshed Iqbal Chaudhry, Muhammad Arshad, Shahid Mahmood, Ahmad Ali, and Aleem A. Khan. 2007. Rapid population declines and mortality clusters in three Oriental white-backed vulture Gyps bengalensis colonies in Pakistan due to diclofenac poisoning. Oryx 40, no. 04: 388-99.

Goldberg, T. L., T. R. Gillespie, I. B. Rwego, E. R. Wheeler, E. L. Estoff, and C. A. Chapman. 2007. Patterns of gastrointestinal bacterial exchange between chimpanzees and humans involved in research and tourism in western Uganda. Biological Conservation 135: 511-17.

Walsh, P., T. Breuer, C. Sanz, D. Morgan, and D. Doran-Sheehy. 2007. Potential for Ebola transmission between gorilla and chimpanzee social group. American Naturalist 169, no. 5: 684-89.


J. Michael Fay’s unique brand of technolo-gy-driven field science, including his “Mega-transect” and “Megaflyover” explorations, earned him the 2007 Lindbergh Award from the Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation.

George. B. Schaller received the first National Geographic Adventure Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Lifetime Achievement Award of the International Wildlife Film Festival.

Alan Rabinowitz was elected to the Men’s Journal Hall of Fame as one of the “toughest and most inventive environmental enforcers and entrepreneurs that you have never heard of.”

Rabinowitz also was given >e Kaplan Lifetime Achievement Award for Cat Con-servation for 2006.

K. Ullas Karanth, Director of WCS-India, received the 2007 J. Paul Getty Award for Conservation Leadership from the World Wildlife Fund. >e award will be used to establish a fellowship program named in Karanth’s honor to support graduate students in conservation-related fields at a university of his choice.

Karanth also received >e Earthcare Award for 2007. It is the Sierra Club’s highest in-ternational award and honors an individual, organization, or agency making a unique contribution to international environmental protection and conservation. Former win-ners include Nobel Prize recipient Wangari Maathai, former Norway Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland, and former Presi-dent of Venezuela Andre Perez.

Sanjay Gubbi, Policy and Outreach Program Manager with WCS-India, was awarded the Maurice Swingland Prize by DICE (Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology) at the University of Kent Canterbury

Gubbi also won first prize at the 2007

Society for Conservation Biology meeting for graduate student presentations.

Erika Cuéllar, with WCS-Latin America, received the Whitley Fund for Nature 2007 “Whitley Award,” donated by Sting and Trudie Styler. Cuéllar will use the funds to train parabiologists for the the guanaco population recovery project in Bolivia and Paraguay.

Cláudia Pereira de Deus, from INPA/Insti-tuto Piagaçu in Peru, was selected to receive a two-year Overbrook Conservation Fel-lowship from the Center for Environmental Research and Conservation (CERC).

Ed Miller, President of Gas TransBoliviano, received the CABI “Sombra Grande” award in recognition of his continued support over ten years of co-administration of Bolivia’s Kaa-Iya Park in the Gran Chaco, and his ef-forts to conserve the Kaa-Iya protected area and the welfare of the Guaraní people.

Bayron Castellanos, Executive Director of Asociacion Balam and Technical Director of WCS-Guatemala was awarded an Over-brook Conservation Fellowship, $20,000 over two years to strengthen the activities of the Mirador-Rio Azul Roundtable.

WCS-Chinafor Amur Tiger Anti-Poaching Public Edu-cation & Participatory Conservation Pro-gram. >e SEE Ecological Award is the first ecological and environmental award spon-sored by a civil organization in mainland China. Launched by ALXA SEE Ecological Association, the award was co-sponsored this year by >e Nature Conservancy.

WCS-Adirondacks staff were named “Con-servationists of the Year” by the Adirondack Council.

Seamus Ehrhard, Intern in Herpetology, received an Earthwatch grant to observe echidnas and monitor lizards on Kangaroo Island, Australia.

Bronx Zoo 1,926,954Congo Gorilla Forest 698,904Children’s Zoo 366,665Zoo Shuttle 284,335Monorail 421,260Skyfari 451,755Butterfly Garden 365,316Carousel 415,130

New York Aquarium 765,961Central Park Zoo 1,012,408Prospect Park Zoo 233,917Queens Zoo 208,667Total WCS Attendance 4,147,907

Members 89,945Wildlife Conservation circulation 102,722

Bronx Zoo

Mammals2,491 animals of 133 species 1,430 births

Birds817 animals of 182 species67 hatchings

Reptile and Amphibians1,058 animals of 150 species441 births and hatchings

Fish356 animals of 29 species

Invertebrates11,375 animals of 26 species

Special Animal Exhibits, Bronx Zoo

Mammals230 animals of 38 species16 births


Reptile and Amphibians187 animals of 36 species5 births


Invertebrates205 animals of 3 species

New York Aquarium Mammals

20 animals of 8 species1 birth

Birds13 animals of 1 speciesReptile and Amphibians

24 animals of 9 speciesFish

3,234 animals of 251 species


Central Park Zoo


Birds306 birds of 66 species32 hatchings

Reptiles and Amphibians809 of 49 species



Queens Zoo



Reptiles37 animals of 3 species

Prospect Park Zoo



Reptiles and Amphibians240 animals of 53 species30 births and hatchings



Total WCS Census

17,875 animals of 1,210 species

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