The Wildlife Conservation Society released its favorite images of 2018 on Thursday, December 20. Ten of the
images come from WCS’ Bronx Zoo, with one from the New York Aquarium, and ten images are from WCS’ Global
Conservation Programs taken by WCS scientists working around the world. WCS operates fi ve wildlife parks in
NYC, Bronx Zoo, New York Aquarium, Central Park Zoo, Prospect Park Zoo and Queens Zoo, and works in nearly 60
countries and across the world’s ocen saving wildlife and wild places.
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The slow loris, a small nocturnal
primate native to
Southeast Asia, can be seen
at the Bronx Zoo’s Jungle-
World.
Photo by Julie Larsen Maher/WCS
This photo of a Malayan tiger taking a dip in the pool at Tiger Mountain
was the winner of the annual Association of Zoos and Aquariums photo
contest and appeared on the cover of the AZA’s Connect magazine December
2018 issue. Photo by Julie Larsen Maher/WCS
In April, WCS, along with the
Ministry of Environment and
community members, announced
that since 2002,
they have protected 3,800
nests of 11 globally threatened
bird species in the
Northern Plains of Cambodia.
Photo by Phann Sithan/WCS
To better understand the transmission
of the deadly Ebola virus,
WCS partnered with the U.S.
National Institutes of Health
in Central Africa last spring
to place GPS collars on bats,
including this moose-like hammer
headed fruit bat. Photo by
Sarah Olson/WCS
In June, WCS celebrated the birthday
of Kingo, a silverback Western
lowland gorilla estimated to be
40-years-old and living in Nouabale
Ndoki National Park, a protected
area WCS helps manage in
the Republic of Congo.
Photo by Ivonne Kienast/WCS
WCS conservationists working in Tanzania’s Tarangire National Park have
not one, but two good reasons to be hopeful for the park’s savanna elephant
population: a pair of rare twin calves were born last April.
Photo by WCS Tanzania Program