"Divergentes," a meeting to reflect on education and culture

With the support of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the Ibero-American Organization for Education, Science, and Culture (OEI), and WCS Ecuador, the Interactive Science Museum organizes the event "Divergentes: Meeting of Education and Culture" with the purpose of reflecting on and sharing experiences around the idea of educational transformation to accelerate progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals, in a context of increasing inequalities and climate crisis.

Airports, terminals, and the postal system are strengthened to combat wildlife trafficking

In the last quarter of 2022, the Ministry of the Environment and Water (MMAyA - Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y Agua), the Authority for the Regulation and Supervision of Telecommunications and Transport (ATT- Autoridad de Regulación y Fiscalización de Telecomunicaciones y Transportes), the Directorate General of Civil Aeronautics (DGAC- Dirección General de Aeronáutica Civil) and the Municipal Decentralized Entity Terminal of Buses ( EDMTB) of the Autonomous Municipal Government of La Paz, with the support of WCS, agreed to improve activities for the detection, surveillance, and control of illegal wildlife trafficking to dismantle illegal wildlife supply chains at strategic points of transportation and prevent this crime.

New book “Captives”: images that fight against the illegal wildlife trade

“Cautivos” denounces the damage caused by bird trafficking in Bolivia with photographs by Daniel Alarcón (Spain) and David Grunbaum (Bolivia), authors of the book, and information provided by specialists from WCS and other allied organizations. Parrots, parakeets and macaws from trafficking and poaching are victims of the illegal trade to be used as pets, a practice that is driving the decline of their populations and causing the extinction of some species.

Analysis of legal tools against wildlife trafficking

This comprehensive legal analysis in Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Colombia, Peru and Paraguay aims to identify proposals for action that take advantage of inter-institutional and cross-border synergies in these countries to address weaknesses and take advantage of existing strengths in the legislative, regulatory and institutions to face the crime of wildlife trafficking from a transnational perspective.

WCS together with Fe and Alegria School implemented training talks for teachers as mechanisms to raise awareness and link with civil society

During the second semester of 2022, and in the framework of the actions of Education for conservation implemented as link mechanisms with civil society, WCS, and Fe and Alegria School conducted training talks for teachers in their educative centers, with the aim to provide information, reinforce knowledge in topics like conservation and raise awareness about the diversity of environmental issues threat wildlife.

Summary of multi-lingual multi-platform investigations of online trade in jaguar parts

This study conducted by WCS on 31 open-access online platforms, in 7 languages, detected 230 publications with possible jaguar parts for sale. The fangs and the skins are the constituent elements most detected. This represents an emerging and serious threat to jaguar populations throughout the range of this Latin America wildlife icon.

How to be a wildlife friendly traveler?

Posters – Stop the illegal trade in wild animals

Diptych – Help to protect wild animals