About Us

About Us

Wildlife Conservation Society, is a New York-based conservation organization with goal to conserve the world's largest wild places in 15 priority regions and home to more than 50% of the world's biodiversity.

WCS-Indonesia Program has worked in Indonesia since initial surveys in the 1960s, and opened a formal country program in 1995 under an MoU with the Ministry of Forestry (now Ministry of Environment and Forestry). WCS has operated projects on across Indonesia (Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, Nusa Tenggara and Maluku) ranging from population and threats assessments of endangered cockatoos to studies of hunting management issues (including tiger and sharks) and the impact of logging on wildlife. In recent years WCS has become one of the leading actors in both tiger conservation and the fight against wildlife crime. WCS’s staff initiated and led the recent development of the PHKA ten-year action plan for Sumatran tiger conservation; a plan that incorporates many of the successful approaches developed by WCS including survey and monitoring methods, conflict resolution and anti-poaching work. WCS’s current programs include a significant focus on the megafauna of Sumatra, the unique biodiversity of Sulawesi, establishing marine protected areas around Aceh, Java, West Nusa Tenggara, Sulawesi, and North Maluku, as well as improved fisheries management.