WCS Annual Report 2012 - Wildlife Conservation Society

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wildlife conservation society Annual Report 2012
4.47 million
2012 visitors to WCS zoos and
aquarium
308.5
Acres of wildlife parks we manage
in NYC
80%
of elephants die as a result of
poaching rather than natural causes
more than
$2 million
Retail value of nearly one ton of ivory
seized in New York City by Manhattan
District Attorney’s office in July 2012
$55,000
Amount in fines related to the ivory
seizure that will go to WCS for
elephant conservation
76
Bison moved from Bronx Zoo to
America's western plains between
1907-1913 to save this animal
from extinction
1
Genetically pure bison born at the
Bronx Zoo in 2012
nearly 100
Increase in mountain gorilla
population of Bwindi Impenetrable
Forest since 2006 according to 2012
WCS census results
880
Number of mountain gorillas left in
the world
90,430
Emails sent to Congress during
our online Fall 2012 Multinational
Species Stamp Reauthorization
campaign
793,457
Total emails sent to Congress via
WCS campaigns in support of wildlife
in 2012
$5,000
Cost for each of 200 wildlife rangers
protecting a 1,000-square-mile area
of Thailand’s Huai Kha Khaeng
Wildlife Sanctuary
4 & 5 years
Sentences handed down to two tiger
poachers sentenced in Thailand in
2012 as a result of WCS collaboration
with local law enforcement
50+
Record number of tigers counted in
Thailand’s Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife
Sanctuary in 2012