Registrant : Organisation or self-employed individual
| Name/company name: |
Wildlife Conservation Society |
| Acronym: |
WCS
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| Legal status: |
US based charity - branch office in Brussels
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| Website address: |
http://www.wcs.org
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Sections
| Section: |
III - Non-governmental organisations |
| and more precisely: |
Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar |
Person with legal responsibility
| Surname, Name: |
Mr
John Calvelli
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| Position: |
Executive Vice President |
Permanent person in charge of EU relations
| Surname, Name: |
Ms
Barbara Helfferich
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| Position: |
European POlicy Director |
Contact details:
| Contact details of organisation's head office: |
2300 Southern Boulevard
Bronx, New York 10460
UNITED STATES
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| Telephone number: |
(+1 718) 220 5100 |
| Fax number: |
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| Other contact information: |
Brussels office:
Boulevard Louis Schmidt, 64
1040 Brussels
Tel. 02 7393008
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Goals / remit
| Goals / remit of the organisation: |
The Wildlife Conservation Society, founded in 1895, has the clear mission to save wildlife and wild places across the globe. Our story began in the early 1900’s when we successfully helped the American bison recover on the Western Plains. Today, we protect many of the world’s iconic creatures here and abroad, including gorillas in the Congo, tigers in India, wolverines in the Yellowstone Rockies, and ocean giants in our world’s amazing seascapes.
During our 115 years, we have forged the power of our global conservation work and the management of our five parks in New York City to create the world’s most comprehensive conservation organization. We currently manage about 500 conservation projects in more than 60 countries; and educate millions of visitors at our five living institutions in New York City on important issues affecting our planet. Our parks include: the Bronx Zoo, New York Aquarium, Central Park Zoo, Prospect Park Zoo and Queens Zoo.
With a commitment to protect 25 percent of the world’s biodiversity, we address four of the biggest issues facing wildlife and wild places: climate change; natural resource exploitation; the connection between wildlife health and human health; and the sustainable development of human livelihoods. While taking on these issues, we manage more than 200 million acres of protected lands around the world, with more than 200 scientists on staff.
The WCS parks in New York City welcome 4 million visitors each year, and help the city to educate millions of schoolchildren in science and conservation issues.
Our history, dating back to ensuring the survival of the American bison, inspires our work each day. We hope our work in turn inspires millions to take action to protect the natural resources that are so important to all life on our fragile Earth.
Our mission statement
The Wildlife Conservation Society saves wildlife and wild places worldwide. We do so through science, global conservation, education and the management of the world's largest system of urban wildlife parks, led by the flagship Bronx Zoo. Together these activities change attitudes towards nature and help people imagine wildlife and humans living in harmony. WCS is committed to this mission because it is essential to the integrity of life on Earth.
WCS’s staff and Board of Trustees work together as stewards of conservation around the globe and of cultural life in New York.
From field science and conservation policy to non-profit management and park operations, career opportunities at WCS are as diverse as our work. Together, WCS’s nearly 4,000 staff members in New York City and around the world work to change attitudes toward nature and help people imagine wildlife and humans living in harmony.
WCS operates country programs throughout four continents—Africa, Asia, Latin America, and North America—to save the last of the wild. Get the contact information for our country program offices.
WCS offers several programs to support wildlife conservation work across the world, providing graduate education opportunities for future conservationists working in their home countries; offering grants to other nonprofit conservation organizations, state wildlife agencies, and tribal governments; and providing guidance in training and capacity-building to the leaders of tomorrow.
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The organisation's fields of interests are:
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Number of persons engaged in activities falling under the scope of the Transparency Register
| Number of persons: |
6
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Complementary information:
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Persons accredited for access to European Parliament premises
| First name
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Surname
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Start Date |
End Date |
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Sara
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Mark
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22/03/13
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20/09/13
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Martha-Louise Barbara
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Helfferich
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05/04/13
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03/04/14
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Activities
Main EU initiatives covered the year before by activities falling under the scope of the Transparency Register:
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WCS just opened its offices in November 2011 in order to pursue EU initiatives such as cooperating with European institutions and organisation on wildlife protection, i.e trade in wildlife, forest governance, biodiversity protection, etc.
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Fields of interest for e-mail alerts on consultations and roadmaps;
| Fields declared by the organisation: |
- Agriculture and Rural Development
- Budget
- Climate Action
- Development
- Environment
- Fisheries and Aquaculture
- Research and Technology
- Trade
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Structure
| Total number of members that are natural persons: |
4,000 |
| Number of member organisations: |
0 |
| Member organisations (Number of members) : |
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| The organisation has members/is represented in the following country(countries): |
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Complementary information:
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Networking
Information on (i) organisation's membership of any associations/federations/confederations or (ii) relationships to other bodies in formal or informal networks.
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WCS is Member of the International Union for Conseration of Nature
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Financial data
| Financial year: |
07/2011
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06/2012
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Total budget:
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2,400,000
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€
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of which public financing:
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400,000
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€
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- from European sources:
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- Procurement:
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0
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€
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- Grants:
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0
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€
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- from national sources:
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0
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€
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- from local/regional sources:
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0
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€
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- USAID :
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400,000
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€
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from other sources: |
2,000,000
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€
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- donations:
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2,000,000
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€
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- contributions from members:
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€
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Estimated costs to the organisation directly related to representing interests to EU institutions in that year:
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< 50000
€
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Other (financial) information provided by the organisation:
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Unfortunately, the system does not let me fill in the financial information requested.
To recap here:
Our yearly budget and turnover between July 2010 and June 2011 was 60,078,124 Euros
60 percent of that money came from USAID; the rest came from private donations, grants from non-governmental organizations, the City of New York, Membership fees, zoo admissions fees, Investment income, education programmes. I would be happy to supply a detailed budget.
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