A partnership with the Mexican Navy to remove illegal gillnets from the vaquita’s last refuge in the Upper Gulf of California. Survey estimates put the remaining population in single figures.
WCS works to stabilise ape populations by preventing hunting, protecting habitat and researching Ebola. It helped create Cameroon’s Takamanda National Park for Cross River gorillas.
The only organisation dedicated solely to wild polar bears, running field research including an annual maternal den study and coexistence technology across the Arctic.
Protects a 158,000-acre reserve in Indonesian Borneo through guard posts, releases rescued orangutans and restores burned forest.
The only group providing hands-on veterinary care to wild eastern gorillas, treating snare injuries and illness in the field across three countries.
A Zimbabwe-based group protecting painted dogs through anti-poaching patrols, a rehabilitation facility and community programmes. Its Anti-Poaching Unit has collected more than 30,000 snares since 2001.
Conservation research, seed collection and temporary greenhouse refuge for the rarest plants of Texas — wildflowers, cacti and an endangered shrub.
Planet Wild funded 30 wildlife cameras to help monitor the reintroduced lynx population in Germany’s Harz mountains as its territory expands.
Volunteer divers monitor kelp-forest health along the North American West Coast to support science-based ocean management, completing over 200 surveys in the 2025 season.
A science-led plan identifying the coral reefs most likely to survive climate change and reseed their neighbours, used to target global conservation funding.
Members symbolically adopt real, named manatees with known histories; funds support research, rescue and advocacy. Founded in 1981.
A scientific effort using machine learning and robotics to record and decode the click "codas" of sperm whales. Fieldwork centres on one resident clan off Dominica.
The longest-running elephant study in the region, tracking a known population of more than 900 identified individuals in northern Kenya with GPS collars and individual recognition.
An initiative to recover 100 Critically Endangered or Extinct-in-the-Wild species across all taxa and continents, backed by a $200 million commitment. An umbrella funding portfolio, not a single field site.
Consolidates migration science to identify priority places across the Americas, with the Bird Migration Explorer covering 458 species that breed in the United States and Canada.
Trains volunteer EcoDiver citizen scientists to survey coral-reef health using one standardised global protocol, feeding reef management worldwide. Over 17,500 surveys completed since 1997.
A conservation-biologist-led effort to save two tiny cyprinid fish found only in one Portuguese river basin, through habitat work and an ex-situ breeding safety net.
WCS uses acoustic monitoring, tagging and genetics to protect whales and coastal dolphins and to create marine protected areas.
The founding project of the Manta Trust and one of the longest-running manta studies in the world, identifying individual rays by their belly spots across 26 atolls.
African elephants, Earth's largest land animals, confront significant threats.
It is the mission of the Caretta Research Project to ensure the long-term protection and full recovery of the Northwest Atlantic loggerhead population.