A champion for nature and people Rosa DeLauro joins WCS’s John Calvelli at the Bronx Zoo today.

It was a great day with Congressional Zoo and Aquarium Caucus Chair Rep. Andrew Garbarino visiting w/ WCS’s Noah Chesnin, John Calvelli and our team at the New York Aquarium learning about our mission to save wildlife and wild places

OPINION: The World Must Work Together to Tackle the Growing #AvianInfluenza Crisis | By Chris Walzer and @SORiding for Nature

The spillovers of #HPAI into cattle & between mammals provide the virus with endless opportunities to evolve novel traits.

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The world must work together to tackle the growing avian influenza crisis, write WCS's Sarah Olson and Chris Walzer.

Current negotiations on an international accord on pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response have proven difficult though. #INB9

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Thank you 🙏 to all the U.S. House members who supported funding for the National Marine Sanctuary Program.

This will help protect wildlife and habitats and also means investment in the community-led designation of #HudsonCanyon as a National Marine Sanctuary.

Tomorrow is #WorldMigratoryBirdDay . Each year, birds from 200+ species like these arrive in the Arctic to breed.

Migratory birds are facing vast pressures: climate change, industrial development, hunting, and more. At WCS, we work in 3 of the 4 major global flyways to help.

LISTEN: As climate change worsens, coral bleaching, overfishing, and pollution have degraded marine environments and threatened livelihoods.

Recognizing this, WCS Belize is working to empower fishing communities to manage marine resources. apple.co/3WDEipt #WCSWildAudio

WCS CAR pays tribute to fallen colleague, Aboubakar Amadou, a transhumance monitoring and liaison agent bit.ly/44zw1EZ

We are still lacking an international prevention plan to deal with the potentially shattering impacts of pandemics.

If negotiators fail to act, they place all of humanity at grave risk of a global health catastrophe, write WCS experts The Hill. #INB9

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Some key stories from last week:

▶️ 150,000 acres protected in Argentina: bit.ly/3UnFs5E

▶️ Saving a group of monkeys could help Africa’s tropical forests: bit.ly/3woMj6T

▶️ Opinion: pandemic prevention needed #INB9 bit.ly/4a3h4wb

OPINION: “4 Years after #COVID , We Are Still Lacking an International Prevention Plan”

By @SSLieberman, Chris Walzer & Christine Franklin for @TheHill

The World Health Organization (WHO) #pandemic preparedness agreement must address prevention at source.

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If negotiators fail to act, they place all of humanity at grave risk of a global health catastrophe, and the harsh judgment of generations who would look back at this inflection point in horror at the road not taken. #INB9 #OneHealth

OPINION: 4 years post COVID, we still lack an international prevention plan, write WCS experts.

With deadline looming, treaty negotiators appear nowhere close to adopting text that will truly prevent consequential pathogen spillovers from wildlife.

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Speak out for #USFICA : U.S. bill would ensure the effective long-term management of protected and conserved areas.

These critically important “anchors” can support broader landscape-scale conservation and essential natural resources and ecosystems.

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Saving a rare and little-known group of monkeys could have cascading net positive impacts on African tropical forest health, says a group of scientists.

Read more: bit.ly/3woMj6T

New study on Congo's forest types, co-authored by WCS, can inform conservation and natural resource management efforts. bit.ly/4a3h4wb