Woodland Park Zoo is conducting research on river otters in the Green-Duwamish River, WA. River otters (Lontra canadensis) are apex predators that play an important role in aquatic ecosystems, and they accumulate contaminants via their diet of fish and invertebrates, potentially serving as biomonitors of watershed health. The lowest five miles of the Green-Duwamish is an EPA Superfund site, and the remainder of the watershed represents a mosaic of land-use types ranging from urban to wild.

A long-running project around maned wolves in PNNKM, Bolivia. 

Our research base was the field station: Bolivia: Depto. Santa Cruz, Parque Nacional Noel Kempff Mercado, Estación Biológica El Refugio Huanchaca. Río Paragua/Tarvo, right bank . A field station with an airstrip and buildings

Part of the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, the Center for Conservation and Sustainability (CCS) conducts research and monitoring to evaluate, understand, predict, and integrate biodiversity conservation needs with development priorities of large infrastructure projects. CCS researchers lead projects internationally to study biodiversity and make recommendations on conservation and sustainable development.