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4 unusual facts about Wildlife Conservation Society


Atheris matildae

matildae was named after Matilda, the daughter of Tim Davenport, the director of the Wildlife Conservation Society in Tanzania and a member of the three-person team to have discovered the snake.

Large-billed Reed Warbler

A breeding site of the Large-billed Reed Warbler Acrocephalus orinus, was discovered in the Wakhan Corridor of the Pamir of north-eastern Afghanistan by Researcher Robert Timmins of the Wildlife Conservation Society who was studying aviary communities in the Pamir Mountains.

Sumatran Ground Cuckoo

In 2007, its call was recorded for the first time according to New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society in a statement released February 26.

Tiger penis soup

In 1996, the Wildlife Conservation Society, an organization that focuses upon wildlife conservation, ran an international advertising campaign stating that claims of sexual potency being enhanced from consuming tiger penis soup are fraudulent.


2006 Zakouma elephant slaughter

The most recent aerial surveys were conducted from August 3–11, 2006, overseen by J. Michael Fay, a Wildlife Conservation Society conservationist and National Geographic explorer-in-residence.

Don Melnick

He served as the founding Executive Director of the Center for Environmental Research and Conservation (CERC), a consortium of organizations including Columbia, the American Museum of Natural History, the New York Botanical Garden, the Wildlife Conservation Society, and the EcoHealth Alliance.

J. Michael Fay

He has worked for the Wildlife Conservation Society since 1990, and was an Explorer in Residence at the National Geographic Society.

Joe McNally

McNally’s advertising, marketing and promotional work includes FedEx, Nikon, Sony, Land's End, General Electric, MetLife, Bogen, Adidas, Kelby Media Group, Wildlife Conservation Society, Epson, and American Ballet Theatre.

Madagascar Fauna Group

Convened by the Wildlife Conservation Society and the Conservation Breeding Specialist Group of the International Union for Conservation of Nature, it was attended by the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust (then Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust) headed by Gerald Durrell, Parc Zoologique et Botanique de Mulhouse, the Strasborg consortium, the Duke Lemur Center, and several US zoos.

Nigerian Conservation Foundation

The NCF has partnerships with a number of international environmental groups including the World Wildlife Fund, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, BirdLife International, Wetlands International, Fauna and Flora International, and the Wildlife Conservation Society.

Zoological Society of San Diego

Dr. Harry M. Wegeforth founded the Zoological Society of San Diego, meeting October 2, 1916, and initially following precedents set by the New York Zoological Society at the Bronx Zoo.


see also

Turtle Conservancy

The Behler Chelonian Center is a seven acre, AZA-Certified zoological facility founded in 2004, upon the request of John L. Behler (1943-2006), the international turtle conservationist and then Curator of Herpetology at the Bronx Zoo, to provide a home for Wildlife Conservation Society’s (WCS) established chelonian assurance colony.