WCS Wild Audio
Episodes
Last Season on WCS Wild Audio
05 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Thanks for joining us for Season One of WCS Wild Audio. We'll be back on November 29th with new stories from the Wildlife Conservation Society’s fie...
S1 E14: Talking Climate Adaptation During New York Climate Week
21 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Timed to the annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, Climate Week brings together global leaders in business, government, a...
S1 E13: More Trees, Fewer Cows: Protecting Guatemala’s Maya Biosphere Reserve for People and Wildlife
15 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Selva Maya represents the largest continuous forest in Central America. Encompassing parts of Mexico, Belize, and Guatemala, it includes Guatemala...
S1 E12: Protection of Big Cat Prey in Laos Might Aid a Return of the “Big Guy”
08 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Big cats today face multiple threats—from poaching and habitat loss to snares and human conflict. But also key to their survival is the presence of ...
S1 E11: Monitoring Biodiversity at the Top of the World
31 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
More and more scientists today are using environmental DNA—or eDNA—to identify species or organisms inhabiting a particular area by measuring gene...
S1 E10: A New Internship Program to Promote Greater Equity and Diversity in the Conservation Field
25 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Internships in the science and conservation field have for too long failed to reach the full diversity of young people. To address that inequity, the ...
S1 E9: From Climate to Cannoli - Leveraging Conservation Science in the Policy Arena
16 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Science is at the heart of effective conservation. It factors into everything WCS does at its global field sites and its New York City-based zoos and ...
S1 E8: Peatlands - The Carbon Storage Powerhouse Protecting Us from Climate Change
09 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Any discussion of climate change must consider the role of peatlands. These water-soaked ecosystems comprised of decaying mosses and other plant matte...
S1 E7: Good News for Wild Tigers
02 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When the International Union for Conservation of Nature, or IUCN, recently reported that wild tiger numbers had increased by 40 percent since 2010, WC...
S1 E6: A Push to Expand Global Protections for Sharks and Rays
27 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This November scientists, policymakers, and advocates from across the globe will gather in Panama for the next meeting of the Convention on Internatio...
S1 E5: How New Technology is Transforming Conservation
20 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Whether it's drones recording video in previously inaccessible areas, artificial intelligence sorting through thousands of camera trap images, or micr...
S1 E4: Reducing Human-Elephant Conflict in Thailand
12 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
WCS Thailand’s Manoon Pliosungnoen describes a unique fencing structure that has been successfully deployed to deter elephants from raiding local fa...
S1 E3: Preventing Pandemics at the Source
05 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Since the onset of the COVID pandemic, we’ve developed strategies to confront the crisis where we live—expanding supplies of protective equipment ...
S1 E2: The Bronx Zoo Is Working to Save Some of the World's Most Threatened Turtle Species
28 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
After serving as the Bronx Zoo’s Curator of Herpetology for 11 years, Don Boyer retired this year. Before he left, WCS Wild Audio’s Nat Moss toure...
S1 E1: Protecting Coral Reefs Amidst a Global Bleaching Crisis
21 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Emily Darling directs WCS's global coral reef conservation program. Working with WCS programs in roughly a dozen countries, she thinks a lot about how...