About Us

Our Mission

WCS Canada was incorporated as a conservation organization in Canada in July 2004.  Its mission is to save wildlife and wildlands by improving our understanding of and seeking solutions to critical problems that threaten key species and large wild ecosystems throughout Canada.  It implements and supports comprehensive field studies that gather information on wildlife needs and then seeks to resolve key conservation problems by working with a broad array of stakeholders, including local community members, conservation groups, regulatory agencies, and commercial interests. It also provides technical assistance and biological expertise to local groups and agencies that lack the resources to tackle conservation dilemmas.  Major issues addressed to date include protected-area design, wildlife monitoring and recovery, ecosystem restoration, integrated landscape management and community-based conservation.

WCS Canada is independently registered and managed, while retaining a strong collaborative working relationship with sister WCS programs in more than 55 nations.  The Wildlife Conservation Society is a recognized global leader in conservation, dedicated to saving wildlife and wildlands in order to assure a future for threatened species, such as elephants, tigers, sharks, macaws and lynx.  For more than a century, WCS has worked in North America promoting such things as bison reintroduction, park establishment and legislation to protect endangered wildlife.  Today, WCS Canada draws upon this legacy of experience and expertise to inform its programs from Yukon to Labrador.