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program, while also hosting a successful Fall Seed Swap and the Living Soil Awards to honor farmers who are cultivating healthy soils while growing food for the community.

The stories that emerged reminded us that in a time of distance, narratives that draw us into solidarity and community are essential to collective healing and transformation.

Urban Beet also built residents to the earth and empower people experiencing homelessness.

Com m unit y Resilience With its activities rooted in the One Health approach, a framework embraced by leading global health organizations that recognizes the interconnection of people, animals, plants, and their shared environment, EcoVet Global has redoubled its commitment to preventing the next pandemic by addressing animal health and welfare needs (domestic and wildlife) as a key component to community and ecosystem resilience.

Keeping up its work catalyzing the power of vulnerable populations and igniting community capacity, EFCWest , in partnership with the U.S. Climate Action Network, trained five grassroots organizations throughout the country in root-cause analysis and systems thinking to address racial disparities in climate activism.

The organization?s training events and video tutorials are becoming more widely recognized, demonstrating how bottom-up initiatives can inspire and spread to others across society.

Transit ion Ear t h increased awareness of the effects of unsustainable growth and its impacts on people and the planet via online meetings, bringing people together to advocate for a global systems change that will enable a shift to a sustainable planet for all.

Environm ent al Education All One Ocean transitioned its Ocean Warriors youth leadership initiative to a virtual program for underserved communities, educated 75 students in a surf camp about the destructive impact of litter on our oceans and waterways, built 15 new beach cleanup stations, and performed 22 beach cleanups, which were critical during the pandemic when beaches had an uptick in users and, consequently, an increase in trash.

West Count y DIGS has worked hard during the pandemic to keep its students in touch with nature and with health, wellness, and nutrition by digging deeper into online learning.

The project increased its social media education and gave away a greenhouse full of plants to more than families, sowing seeds of hope in a school district in which students face poverty, racial tension, and food deserts.

Jam es, a new project with Earth Island, has been fighting to prevent Formosa Plastics from building its next petrochemical plant in a community that has already suffered its share of polluting industries.

In times that desperately call for wisdom and insight, Sacred Land Film Project turned to its rich trove of materials and launched the Sacred Land Audio Archive, a series of short outtakes and interviews with Indigenous leaders and leading environmentalists sharing their thoughts on traditional sacred lands, human rights, and the environment.

Acting in kinship and building community in order to seed solutions based on respect, honor, and mutual care, Seeding Sovereignt y launched the Community Defense and Land Liberation program to get security gear and essential legal self-defense training to frontline environmental protectors; filed a landmark case against the federal government on a right to wilderness; established a program to assist in the healing process of residential-school survivors amid the recent tragic discovery of thousands of murdered Indigenous children during the last century; created Medicine Wheels to meet the mental health needs of Indigenous and BIPOC youths who have been worn down and isolated by the pandemic quarantine; and opened Ancestral Acres Farm and Garden to grow food sovereignty and distribute health nutrition to food-insecure communities.

Preventing Pollut ion and Toxics Compelled by the need for safety and sanitation during the pandemic, public drinking fountain to make the system touchless.

Working to raise awareness of toxic fertilizers and the impact of degraded soils on climate change, Save Our Soil continues to participate in events and collaborate with others to keep communities safe.

Yout h Empowerment Bay Area Wilderness Training cultivated several new partnerships to better serve the needs of its San Francisco Bay Area community.

The effort has helped the project reach hundreds of students and train more than educators and youth leaders to create equitable access to outdoor experiences.

With that in mind, Ult im at e Civics has been deep in development with the Cloud Institute for Sustainability Education to create lesson material about using civic power as responsible citizens to shape, operate, and maintain an equitable and more sustainable democracy for all.

With the pandemic affecting international tourism, Guias Unidos helped their local tour guides implement education and conservation activities on Ometepe Island, Nicaragua, by creating an adopt-a-tree program at the request of the kids that have attended the project?s environmental education classes in the past.

Working with and for the people of East Africa to build lasting protection of the Serengeti-Mara ecosystem, Serenget i Wat ch developed a program to supply Maasai women with beehives, the honey from which they sell, providing a source of income, empowerment, and enthusiasm.

Wom en's Environm ent al Leadership Clim at e Wise Wom en effectively developed partnerships and shaped financial opportunities that meaningfully support women?s leadership on local climate initiatives.

Wom en for Wildl ife supported the launch of Women for Conservation Botswana and cohosted its first leadership workshop for 15 Indigenous women in that country.

Wom en?s Clim at e Cent ers Int ernat ional (WCCI) conducted a community baseline assessment in Tororo, Uganda, a rural agriculture community in East Africa, which provided new insights into what local people need and want, and how to translate that information into future activities, projects, and programs.

WCCI?s flagship center, also in Tororo, creates economic opportunities for local women as they implement climate-smart technologies in their communities.

In its mission to empower women?s leadership, Wom en?s Ear t h All iance hosted its third annual Indonesia Grassroots Accelerator, catalyzing the efforts of leaders, from 15 regions, who are protecting their communities and ecosystems from environmental and climate threats like palm oil extraction, plastic pollution, and sea level rise.

Fiscal year projects on STEAM education, industrial air pollution, climate change solutions, environmental activism, community gardens, and healing space for incarcerated youth.

For nearly four decades, Earth Island Journal has been publishing articles that offer a unique, wide-angle perspective, which strives to make the connections between the environment and human rights and social justice issues.

Online, the Journal highlighted the work of activists fighting fossil fuel companies and demanding bold climate action; reported on the ongoing persecution of apex predators in the U.S.; and dedicated a large share of its coverage to issues at the intersection of race, gender, poverty, and environment.

The magazine?s work has been recognized by awards from the Society of Environmental Journalists, the San Francisco Press Club, and the John Burroughs Association.

Thank you for all you do as volunteers, staff, donors, and community members.

Behind the facts and figures are members like you: passionate outdoors people who generously give time, talent, and financial support to protect the special places we love and make sure that they are there for future generations.

Center for Outdoor Learning and Leadership AMC continued to develop its reimagined Center for Outdoor Learning and Leadership (COLL), dedicated to providing training and knowledge to pursue your own outdoor adventures through the values of safety, conservation, and equitable access to the outdoors.

COLL also trained educators, volunteer leaders, and Wilderness First Aid participants.

With a goal of creating equitable access to the outdoors, AMC’s Educators Outdoors partners with organizations and schools that are working with lower income and BIPOC communities in the greater Boston and New York regions.

Access to greenspace and fresh air remains critical to improving both mental and physical health.

It’s not just about providing access to the outdoors but lending your voice to educate others about how their behaviors impact the lands and trails we enjoy.

Consistent with our conservation mission, protecting dark skies enhances human and ecological health.

The federal list of proposed LWCF-funded projects includes several places of importance to AMC, including many that would provide equitable access to the outdoors in areas closer to cities.

AMC professional and volunteer trail crews help maintain vital trails throughout the region.

Community Science Engaged conservationists throughout the region have come together for community science, adding more than projects.

Community observations help us understand how climate change impacts mountain plants and their reproductive phenology.

Given the many financial and operational challenges, AMC has much to be proud of in terms of mission delivery and comes out of the year in a position of strong fiscal health thanks to sound management and the generosity of donors at every level.

In tirelessly to bring the animal welfare movement into the mainstream and engage new allies in our mission.

That’s why we work to share resources, train animal advocates, and build a welcoming, collaborative community of Changemakers around the world.

enable egg producers to be audited and regulate standards for cage-free eggs in the country, where corporate transparency and accountability are low.

movement of professional and volunteer activists leveraging their skills and raising their voice for animals.

Our team of analysts and animal welfare scientists helps ensure that our efforts make the greatest impact—and that your dollars do the most good for animals.

OPPORTUNITY because of their strong programs aimed at improving the welfare standards of farmed animals and strengthening the animal advocacy movement across multiple countries.

WE ARE SO GRATEFUL TO OUR LEGACY SOCIETY MEMBERS, who have generously chosen to leave an enduring legacy of compassion that will empower us to keep fighting for animals for as long as we are needed.

I trust the organization’s evidence based and result-oriented approaches are the best avenues to transform animal welfare.

We Stand for Wildlife® http://www.wcs.org MISSION WCS saves wildlife and wild places worldwide through science, conservation action, education, and inspiring people to value nature.

We must find a new path that balances human needs with protecting and restoring nature—a path that actually harnesses nature’s immense power.

This is a moment when Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) can make a vital contribution.

wildlife parks ■ Reimagine zoo-based learning during the pandemic ■ Devise promising new conservation strategies for lions, jaguars, elephants, whales, and sharks ■ Advance efforts to ban the commercial trade in wildlife for human consumption ■ Unlock the power of intact forests ■ Protect Nature’s Strongholds around the globe We also hope that the passion and dedication of our very diverse staff and partners around the world shine through when you read their profiles, which this year include a New York Aquarium marine mammal and bird keeper, an Indigenous ecotourism guide in Bolivia, a Robertson Big Cat Conservation Fellow from China, a Thai anti-poaching leader, and a Bronx Zoo admissions manager.

power of intact forests We face three interconnected crises: extinction; climate change is accelerating; and the pandemic, which is linked to the dangerous commercial trade in wildlife for human consumption, has claimed millions of lives.

Science has shown that elephants play a key role in the growth and health of forests by dispersing seeds, minerals, and nutrients over long distances, and by opening pathways and mineral-rich clearings.

After decades of poaching for their ivory, human-elephant conflict, and destruction of habitats, African and Asian elephants have disappeared from about two centuries ago.

Across critical elephant strongholds in Africa and Asia, WCS is working with governments and communities to develop improved solutions to poaching and human-wildlife conflict.

We have accomplished this by helping Niassa’s law enforcement officials stay a step ahead of poachers and traffickers, and through community-led conservation—working with the more than Reserve to strengthen livelihoods and develop improved solutions to human-wildlife conflict.

Currently, Niassa’s elephant population is estimated at about our science indicates that this landscape could support as many as 20,000 elephants with WCS’s continued enforcement and community engagement programs.

in Cambodia In rallied together with rangers and community members to free a 20-year-old Asian elephant from a bomb crater in Cambodia’s Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary—a critical stronghold for this species.

But from the age of four, I loved observing any animal I could find, which usually meant beetles.

We interviewed family members to brown bears or wild yaks.

With a WCS scholarship, I am writing my PhD at the University of Florida on human-snow leopard coexistence.

Additional studies by WCS and colleagues found that humpback whales in this area produce intricate songs and social sounds, and may be present nearly year round.

The global public health and economic crises unleashed by this zoonotic-origin pandemic have shone a harsh spotlight on the far-reaching dangers of the increasing contact between people and wildlife through deforestation, and the harmful commercial trade in wildlife for human consumption.

The One Health approach that WCS has pioneered recognizes the strong links between human, animal, and environmental health.

Building on decades of scientific leadership on this issue, WCS is partnering with governments to secure crucial, permanent changes that will protect human health and well-being, economies, and security on a global scale, while also preventing the devastation of the world’s wildlife and wild places.

This section highlights WCS’s progress in banning the commercial trade in wildlife for human consumption, our efforts to help local communities detect and reduce transmission of deadly diseases such as Ebola, and our long track record of leadership in wildlife health.

WCS is using strong science, policy, and action on the ground to protect trafficked species while safeguarding human health.

Now is the time to secure permanent changes that will protect human health, economies, and security on a global scale, while also preventing the devastation of the world’s wildlife.

In response, WCS is advancing a science-based strategy to end commercial trade in live, wild birds and mammals for human consumption.

RIGHT/BELOW To prevent future outbreaks, WCS is working to stop the commercial trade in wildlife for human consumption, particularly of birds and mammals.

Health and animal care experts from WCS’s zoos and from our field sites have worked closely with law enforcement agencies to rehabilitate and release many confiscated animals back into the wild.

BELOW WCS trains rangers and other law enforcement officials across the globe in how to use technology such as the SMART patrol system to target poaching hotspots, dismantle illegal trade networks, and monitor wildlife health.

■ Advance global commitments: We will advance a strategy to win global commitments to measures designed to prevent the emergence and spread of new zoonotic-origin diseases, as well as a potential new pandemic prevention treaty or protocol, focusing on the United Nations, the Convention on Biological Diversity, and intergovernmental organizations such as the World Health Organization and the World Organization for Animal Health.

In the US: We are urging the Administration and Congress to strengthen global health security by preventing the root causes of zoonotic-origin pandemics.

To this end, over a decade ago we created a zoo-based molecular diagnostics laboratory at the Bronx Zoo’s Wildlife Health Center, led by Dr. Tracie Seimon—one of only a few such zoo-based labs in the world.

formally accepted by the G7 at June summit, recognizing at the highest political levels the essential connection between human, animal, and environmental health.

When the Bronx Zoo’s tiger, Nadia, contracts COVID-and human health professionals in the US and abroad—helping advance the world’s understanding of the novel coronavirus, and protecting other cats in zoos worldwide.

Advancing Health with Science and Partnerships WCS’s veterinarians and other health experts partner across borders and disciplines to solve the world’s most pressing wildlife health challenges.

At the heart of our One Health approach is community: we collaborate with diverse partners ranging from government and international health agencies, to villagers in remote forests, to restaurants in big cities.

In Central Africa, Ebola remains a threat to human communities and a serious concern in the decline of gorilla and chimpanzee populations.

Together with governments and local villages, we set up an early warning system for Ebola outbreaks focusing on remote areas with high biodiversity, which also have some of the poorest access to health resources.

Our accomplishments include: Conducting Ebola education campaigns across more than in northern Congo—home to about 60 percent of the world’s gorillas—that reached 6,600+ traditional hunters and thousands more women and children.

Avoiding negative messaging, we instead showcase the city’s vibrant social life.

We will expand rollout of SMART for health, creating a robust worldwide network of wildlife disease sentinels collecting and sharing information to stop the consumption of illegally caught wild meat—and prevent future pandemics.

WCS has now built upon this approach to collect real-time wildlife health updates—SMART for health— to detect and stop emerging disease threats such as Ebola, avian influenza, and coronaviruses wherever they might emerge.

SMART for health is accessible via smartphones in even extremely remote areas, and supports tracking of animal behaviors, mortality events, and photo uploads.

WCS is piloting the tool in Cambodia, Lao PDR, Vietnam, and Mongolia, in support of wildlife health surveillance system development by our government partners.

Harbor seal pups can become orphaned for a multitude of reasons, including their mothers being startled or disturbed by human activity.

Ruth’s injury could not heal properly, and she lost the range of motion and strength needed to fly, hunt, and care for herself in the wild.

Providing Jobs, Internships, and More throughout COVID Our flagship Bronx Zoo is an anchor in the community: we employ more youth than any other organization in the borough.

In the past year, WCS intensified support to our city’s young people, providing a range of online and in-person job, internship, and volunteer opportunities.

Olivia Ramos, pictured here, began her journey with WCS in Education Fellow at the Bronx Zoo.

I manage more than and challenging sometimes, but we’re like a family so we make it work.

All those years, it has been an extremely supportive place to work.

That’s what I want for my daughters: the chance to be themselves—authentic, caring human beings—and be happy in whatever they do.

Educating through Multiple Channels Whether visiting with animals at our parks or logging on to WCS’s social media channels, WCS inspires people to learn.

Launching Wildlife School Online With many students struggling to adapt to online learning, WCS provided much-needed virtual education resources for use in the classroom or at home.