The WCS Global Health Program resolves disease challenges, researches current and potential future health threats to wildlife, and seeks to achieve the broader conservation goal of healthy wildlife populations, people and their domestic animals.
We do this not only within WCS landscapes and seascapes, but also beyond their borders. Our staff, working with others across the organization and with partners, use veterinary and health-related sciences, provide training, and develop policy solutions in order to provide the highest quality care for animals in our New York zoological parks and to sustain wild, free-ranging populations, maintain healthy ecosystems, and garner support for conservation. WCS applies expertise in wildlife health surveillance; medicine, pathology and disease diagnostics; epidemiology; and policy to produce guidance and best practices that can ensure a future for the wild and help people to use resources in ways that promote good health and environmental sustainability.
For more information visit:
http://www.wcs.org/conservation-challenges/wildlife-health.aspx
Our Mission:
To apply the best of the health sciences to solve modern conservation challenges.
Our Strategies:
- Building local capacity to care for and protect the health of wildlife worldwide,
- Gathering and applying critically needed information to protect the health of wildlife, people, and domestic animals, and
- Promoting policies, guidelines, and best practices to ensure a healthy planet.
Where we work:
The WCS Field Veterinary Program is active where threatened species and ecosystems have received little attention to protect their health.