The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) works around the world to save wildlife and wild places. As a science-based conservation NGO, WCS’s mission is to save wildlife and wild places through worldwide science, conservation action, education, and inspiring people to value nature. WCS was established as the New York Zoological Society in 1895 and has a long history of conservation in North America. The WCS North America Program is one of five regional programs that comprise the WCS Global Conservation Program, with conservation activities in 64 counties. The WCS America’s Program, spanning North and South America, works to conserve a strategic set of wildlife and wild places and to address the crosscutting conservation challenges of biodiversity conservation, ecological connectivity,