Identity area
Type of entity
Corporate body
Authorized form of name
Wildlife Conservation Society
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
- New York Zoological Society
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
1895-
History
The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) is a non-governmental organisation headquartered at the Bronx Zoo in New York City, that aims to conserve the world's largest wild places in 14 priority regions. Founded in 1895 as the New York Zoological Society (NYZS), the global conservation organisation manages four New York City wildlife parks in addition to the Bronx Zoo: the Central Park Zoo, New York Aquarium, Prospect Park Zoo and Queens Zoo