In addition to its headquarters in new york, WCS has more than 3,000 employees around the world. Professional and technical personnel related to WCS international protection projects include: experts engaged in science and exploration, training and capacity building, life landscape experts and GIS laboratory experts, field veterinary experts and protection education experts.
William Bibi, a famous wildlife conservationist of WCS, studied the pheasants in China in 1930s. Following William Bibi, george beals schaller, the chief scientist, began to protect giant pandas and plateau ungulates in Sichuan and Qiangtang for a long time in 1980s. 1996, WCS established the China project office in Shanghai, and moved the China project headquarters to Beijing in 2005. At present, WCS China Project has carried out ungulate protection in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and Pamirs Plateau in the west, cross-border Amur tiger protection in the northeast, Chinese alligator and tortoise protection in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, publicity and education projects on reducing wildlife consumption and trade and wildlife protection in South China, and since 2008, China Border Wildlife Defender Award has been established. WCS pays attention to the cooperation with the government and communities, carries out long-term field scientific research, and uses the collected first-hand information of wildlife and ecosystems to promote the protection work. By the end of 2008, WCS China Project had four offices, namely Beijing Office, Lhasa Office, Hunchun Office and Guangzhou Office.
The strategy of the International Wildlife Conservation Society is to support comprehensive field research projects and train local nature conservation professionals to protect and manage wildlife populations.