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A star attraction: David Macdonald describes the illegal trade in India’s...
Patterned with star-like figures on their shells, Indian star tortoises can be found in private homes across Asia, where they are commonly kept as pets. One can also see them in religious temples,...
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Are Cecil’s grand offspring on the way? David Macdonald reports that a 4 and...
Last week Xanda was seen mating repeatedly with lionesses from the so-called Backpans Pride – pregnancy in lions lasts about 110 days, so all being well Cecil’s grand offspring should be around in...
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Rescuing Mbuzini (for those not speaking N’dbele: Goat): David Macdonald...
Lovemore, as you will have read in earlier News Items, is the member of our lion team who specialises in working with villages to understand the human dimension of depredation by lions on domestic...
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How wild is wilderness? David Macdonald reports on a new WildCRU paper that...
There is much about conservation in South Africa which is successful but also provocative, and one such thing is the proliferation there of relatively small fenced reserves, raising tricky questions...
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Cecil’s pride – NoBhuhle (Beautiful)
As the Christmas holidays approach, David Macdonald has more good news from Cecil’s pride Followers of our lion study in Hwange will realise that the WildCRU team is striving to monitor the private...
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Carnivore hunting policy does not always align with science: a new paper...
David Macdonald comments on one example ‘Current policies for wolf hunting in the Northern Rockies do not specify a target population size, a maximum number killed or a desired rate of population...
View ArticleNew research led by Sandra Baker assesses welfare impacts in wildlife management
Human-wildlife conflict is a global issue and, where people try to manage this conflict, any impacts on animal welfare should be minimised where possible. However opinions on impacts vary widely so...
View ArticleBubye Valley Conservancy
We have been asked whether WildCRU is involved in a proposal by the Bubye Valley Conservancy and Martin Nel Safaris to raffle a lion either to be hunted as a trophy or to be radio-collared by their...
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Cheering news from Cecil’s pride – David Macdonald reports that Jericho has cubs
These are frantically busy days for us in Oxford as Andy Loveridge and I plan the future of our Hwange-Okavango lion project at a time when so much is changing for lion conservation – much of it...
View ArticleNew African Wildlife Foundation app highlights conservation work
One of WildCRU’s partners, the African Wildlife Foundation, has teamed up with Steller to showcase conservation stories in a new app, which combines photos, video and text. The result is an engaging...
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