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Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS)

WCS protects wildlife and wild places through field programmes worldwide and zoos in New York. In the DRC it supports Kahuzi-Biega National Park, the Okapi Wildlife Reserve and the Kabobo Wildlife Reserve.

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Headquarters

United States of America

Sectors

• habitat
• anti-poaching
• veterinary care

Works on

• Huemul, the endangered Andean deer of Patagonia South America, Patagonian Andes (Chile and Argentina)
• H5N1 bird flu devastates elephant seals on Península Valdés South America, Patagonia (Península Valdés, Chubut)
• Gorillas in the conflict zone of eastern DR Congo Central Africa, North and South Kivu
• Amur leopard on the Russia-China border East Asia, Primorsky Krai
• Saiga antelope: recovery and culling in Kazakhstan Central Asia, steppes of Kazakhstan and Mongolia

Field centres (5)

• reserve (Dem. Rep. Congo) Dem. Rep. Congo
• field base (Mongolia) Mongolia
• country office (Argentina) Argentina
• country office (Argentina) Argentina
• WCS support for Land of the Leopard National Park Russia

Sources

• drcongo.wcs.org
• wcs.org

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