Wildlife Conservation Society

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Overview

Lobbying Costs

50,000€

Financial year: Jul 2010 - Jun 2011

Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

None declared

Lobbyists with EP accreditation

0

High-level Commission meetings

6

Lobbying Costs over the years

  • 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
    UNITED STATES
  • People

    Total lobbyists declared

    None declared

    Lobbyists with EP accreditation

    All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time

    0 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 11 Jan 2012

    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 Barbara Helfferich (European POlicy Director)

  • Categories

    Category

    III - Non-governmental organisations

    Subcategory

    Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar

  • Networking

    Affiliation

    None declared

    Member organisations

    None declared

  • Financial Data

    Closed financial year

    Jul 2010 - Jun 2011

    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.

    • 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)
      Other Lobbyists
    • 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 &amp; Development
      Attending
      • Maria-Myrto Kanellopoulou (Cabinet member)
    • Date 18 Jan 2018 Location Bruxelles
      Subject Introductory Meeting, Wildlife and Biodiversity
      DG Environment
      Attending
      • Daniel Calleja Crespo (Director-General)
    • 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)
    • Date 24 Apr 2017 Location Brussels Belgium
      Subject Possibilities of collaboration
      DG Directorate-General for International Partnerships
      Attending
      • Stefano Manservisi (Director-General)
    • 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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