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The Wildlife Conservation Club
The Wildlife Conservation Club strives to raise awareness of wildlife and broader environmental issues, to raise funds for endangered species, and to contribute to the WCC website and monthly newsletter. Join us in making our goal of an environmentally aware Collegiate a reality. Scroll down to see posts from our newsletters!
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Apr 12, 20212 min read
Mysterious Mass Coho Salmon Deaths Solved, Ali Sabra '23, April 2021 Issue
The endangered coho salmon. Source: baynature.org. It is no secret that various species of fish are at high risk of habitat loss and...
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Apr 12, 20212 min read
Endangered Species Spotlight: The Asian Unicorn, Isaac Loh '23, April 2021 Issue
Found only in the forests of Vietnam and Laos, the saola (often referred to as the Asian unicorn) is a critically endangered species of...
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Apr 12, 20215 min read
WCC Archive #5 1/31/2019
Wildlife Conservation Club Newsletter #2: Due to Poaching, African Elephants Are Evolving Without Tusks By: William Cox '20 Elephants...
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Apr 11, 20212 min read
Baby Mathaï Joins Belgian Park’s Sumatran Orangutan Family, Michael Rezak '23, April 2021 Issue
Baby Mathaï. Source: bulletin.be. On November 28, 2020, the Belgian animal park Pairi Daiza welcomed the arrival of a male Sumatran...
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Apr 11, 20212 min read
Endangered Species Spotlight: Glass Frogs, Tristan Stump and Peter Nicholson '22, April 2021 Issue
A photograph of a glass frog from below. Source: volunteerlatinamerica.com. The term glass frog refers to 120 different species of tree...
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Apr 11, 20212 min read
Is There Hope for the Swinhoe's Softshell Turtle?, Riley Schwimmer '24, April 2021 Issue
Swinhoe's softshell turtle. Source: turtlesurvival.org. The Swinhoe’s softshell turtle, also known as the Yangtze giant softshell turtle,...
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Apr 11, 20212 min read
WCC Archive #4 4/29/2018
Wildlife Conservation Club Newsletter #4: African Wild Dog: Endangered By: James Tauber '21 Known by several other names including the...
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Dec 29, 20202 min read
Jaguar Burned in Pantanal Fires Returns to Wild, Connor Kim '23, Jan 2021 Issue
“Apocalyptic… a tragedy of colossal proportions,” described Luciana Leite, a scholar of ecology at the Federal University of Bahia, as...
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Dec 29, 20202 min read
500-Meter-Tall Coral Skyscraper in the Great Barrier Reef, Konrad Krieger '22, Jan 2021 Issue
Coral skyscraper mapped using 3D seabed modeling. Source: theguardian.com. On October 20, 2020, scientists aboard the Schmidt Ocean...
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Dec 29, 20203 min read
A Recent Surge in Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest, Ben Davis '22, Jan 2021 Issue
An area of the Amazon Rainforest after it was cleared by farmers in Itaituba, Para, Brazil, Sept. 26, 2019. Source: Reuters.com. The...
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Dec 29, 20202 min read
Drones Used to Monitor Polar Bears on Wrangel Island, Cole Brountas '22, Jan 2021 Issue
Polar bears. Source: worldwildlife.org. Wrangel Island, otherwise known as the “maternity home of polar bears,” is where the majority of...
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Dec 29, 20202 min read
Endangered Species Spotlight: Sunda Tiger, Aarav Dogra '22, Jan 2021 Issue
Two Sunda tiger cubs. Source: worldwildlife.org. The Sunda tiger is a tiger subspecies that once populated several of the Sunda Islands...
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Dec 29, 20202 min read
Climate Change is Causing Trees to Lose Their Leaves Earlier, Teddy Nuttall '22, Jan 2021 Issue
Fall leaves. Source: hurtinva.com. As suggested by the findings of a study conducted in the fall of 2020, trees will begin to shed their...
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Dec 29, 20202 min read
New Effort in Denver to Undo Redlining and Environmental Racism, Ankit Raparthi '22, Jan 2021 Issue
Globeville Landing Park, a newly redesigned green space in Denver. Source: nytimes.com. Denver, like many American cities, has a history...
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Dec 29, 20202 min read
John Kerry Selected by Joe Biden for Special Climate Role, Wilder Pitofsky '22, Jan 2021 Issue
John Kerry, President-elect Joe Biden's selection for presidential envoy for climate. Source: npr.org. John Kerry, the former secretary...
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Dec 29, 20203 min read
Endangered Species Spotlight: Hawksbill Sea Turtle, Teddy Pitofsky '23, Jan 2021 Issue
A Hawksbill sea turtle. Source: nps.gov. Overview: In the last century, the world’s population of Hawksbill Sea Turtles has declined by...
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Dec 29, 20203 min read
The Bronx Zoo and the Pandemic, Michael Rezak '23, Jan 2021 Issue
Bronx Zoo entrance. Source: wikipedia.org. On March 16, 2020, the Bronx Zoo was forced to close to the public due to the coronavirus...
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Dec 29, 20202 min read
Two New Marsupial Species Discovered in Australia, Isaac Loh '23, Jan 2021 Issue
Petauroides minor/northern species (top left), Petauroides armillatus/central species (bottom left) and Petauroides volans/southern...
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Nov 11, 20202 min read
The Trials and Tribulations of the Red Panda, Danny Alonso '22, Nov 2020 Issue
Despite their name, red pandas are not actually a type of panda. Rather, they are most closely related to the raccoon and not much larger...
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Nov 11, 20203 min read
The Dangers of Microplastics, Aarav Dogra '22, Nov 2020 Issue
According to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), microplastics are plastic fragments less than 5 millimeters...
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