Overview
Lobbying Costs
50,000€
Financial year: Jul 2011 - Jun 2012
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
None declared
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
1
High-level Commission meetings
6
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS)
EU Transparency Register
10132247681-61 First registered on 11 Jan 2012
Goals / Remit
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.Main EU files targeted
Address
Head Office
Southern Boulevard
Bronx, New York 10460
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People
Total lobbyists declared
None declared
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
1 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 24 Jan 2014
Name Start date End Date Mr Arnaud Goessens 26 Jul 2018 01 Feb 2019 Ms Janice Weatherley 28 Apr 2018 01 Feb 2019 Mr Arnaud Goessens 20 Jul 2017 11 Jul 2018 Ms Janice Weatherley 23 Jan 2017 12 Jan 2018 Ms Catherine ROSSILLON 07 Jan 2017 14 Sep 2017 Mr Arnaud Goessens 31 May 2016 31 May 2017 Ms Janice Weatherley 09 Jan 2016 08 Jan 2017 Ms Catherine ROSSILLON 29 Sep 2015 25 Sep 2016 Ms Janice Weatherley 13 Jan 2015 09 Jan 2016 Mr Arnaud Goessens 22 Nov 2014 20 Nov 2015 Ms Janice Weatherley 29 Jan 2014 13 Jan 2015 Ms Simona Suardi 29 Jan 2014 21 Nov 2014 Ms Martha-Louise Barbara Helfferich 05 Apr 2013 04 Apr 2014 Ms Sara Mark 22 Mar 2013 21 Sep 2013 Complementary Information
None declared
Person in charge of EU relations
None declared
Person with legal responsibility
Ms Janice Weatherley (Director of European Policy & Government Relations)
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Categories
Category
III - Non-governmental organisations
Subcategory
Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
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Networking
Affiliation
None declared
Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jul 2011 - Jun 2012
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
50,000€
Other financial info
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. -
EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
None declared
Groups (European Parliament)
None declared
Communication activities
None declared
Other activities
None declared
- Meetings
Meetings
6 meetings found. Download meetings
The list below only covers meetings held since November 2014 with commissioners, their cabinet members or directors-general at the European Commission; other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may have taken place, but the European Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. For more information about which commissioner is responsible for which portfolio, check out this link: https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/index_en All information below comes from European Commission web pages.
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Date 22 Nov 2018 Location Brussels Subject CITES Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Karmenu Vella Portfolio Environment, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Attending - Sebastien Paquot (Cabinet member)
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Date 23 May 2018 Location Brussels Subject Wildlife Conversation - sustainable livelyhoods. Forest protection in developing countries Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Neven Mimica Portfolio International Cooperation & Development Attending - Maria-Myrto Kanellopoulou (Cabinet member)
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Date 18 Jan 2018 Location Bruxelles Subject Introductory Meeting, Wildlife and Biodiversity DG Environment Attending - Daniel Calleja Crespo (Director-General)
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Date 26 Jul 2017 Location Brussels Subject Our ocean and wildlife Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Karmenu Vella Portfolio Environment, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Attending - Aurore Maillet (Cabinet member)
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Date 24 Apr 2017 Location Brussels Belgium Subject Possibilities of collaboration DG Directorate-General for International Partnerships Attending - Stefano Manservisi (Director-General)
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Date 03 Feb 2015 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject Programmes de biodiversité et de défense de wildlife dans les pays du développement DG Directorate-General for International Partnerships Attending - Fernando Frutuoso De Melo (Director-General)
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