ABOUT GWC

The mission of Global Wildlife Conservation is to use the best science to protect the world’s threatened wildlife and habitats.

GWC is involved in three areas of conservation and science:

• conducting field expeditions to the most biologically important areas of the world;
• implementing conservation research and action on threatened species and habitats; and
• facilitating wildlands conservation in collaboration with partners.

As a result of a complex array of human activities, the world faces a growing environmental crisis that threatens the existence of its species and habitats. The causes and effects of such environmental problems demand rigorous scientific investigation across national boundaries. Sadly, the majority of the world’s threatened species and habitats have either inadequate or no active science and conservation underway.

GWC is changing that. GWC was founded with a strong scientific base and the knowledge that sound field research and action for conservation is crucial to the long-term protection of the world’s species and their habitats.

GWC works in conjunction with the world’s leading conservation non-governmental organizations, government agencies, universities, zoological and botanical institutions, and museums that have long studied the environment from multiple disciplinary perspectives. Specialists in ecology, biology, physical sciences, environmental planning, and business are working together with GWC to apply the best science available to the global biodiversity crisis.

The goal of GWC is to ensure that important environmental decisions are based on science and to provide scientific decision-support when necessary. Although many critical conservation decisions attempt to satisfy social, political, and economic considerations, too often these decisions are brought to decision-makers and the public without an understanding of the underlying science. It is our belief that fact-based, science is the only way to drive effective conservation in the 21st century. To that end, GWC is a neutral, transparent conservation organization that bases all of its findings and recommendations solidly on science. This philosophy permeates all the work that we advise, fund, and act upon.