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wcs by the numbers 8 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
26-27 million Estimated number of sharks killed annually for the shark fin trade up to $100 Cost of a bowl of shark fin soup in New York City’s Chinatown 40 Number of shark, skate and ray species found in the local waters surrounding New York City $13.3 million Value of all WCS-related television stories placed in 2012 157 million Number of viewers reached by those stories 5,539,568 Total video views on Zootube, WCS’s YouTube channel in 2012 256,743 Number of Facebook fans for WCS and our parks since 2008 50 Estimated number of migratory bird species that breed in Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve (NPR-A) 10.7 million Acres of NPR-A land protected from drilling in 2012 more than 100 Number of frog species extinctions associated with chytrid fungus since the 1970s 1,750 Number of Kihansi spray toads returned to Tanzania from Bronx Zoo in 2012 233 Number of butterfly species previously unknown to Peru’s Bahuaja Sonene National Park found by a WCS-led research team in 2012 50 Number of reptile and amphibian species previously not found in Bahuaja Sonene discovered by the same team 9 wcs by the numbers
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