Bat project reveals weather affects growth in early life
Abigail Motley, St. Hilda’s College, University of Oxford, was awarded best student presentation at the Mammal Society’s 4th Student Conference held at Lancaster University last week, for her...
View ArticleWildCRU student collaborators present top talks at SCCS
Jeremy Cusack and Nicolas Galvez were honoured with awards at the recent Student Conference on Conservation Science (SCCS) in Cambridge. Jeremy is an Oxford Zoology DPhil student co-supervised by...
View ArticleWildCRU’s final report published on the ecology of reintroduced beavers at...
Since May 2009, the WildCRU has been acting as one of the Independent Monitoring Partners for the Scottish Beaver Trial in Knapdale, Argyll. The WildCRU team, led by Dr Lauren Harrington, in...
View ArticleWildCRU student collaborator’s Golden Cat article in Africa Geographic
WildCRU collaborator and Kaplan Scholar, Laila Bahaa-el-din, writes about her PhD study on golden cats in in Africa Geographic. “Of the African cats, the one you’re least likely to have heard of is the...
View ArticleDr Lucy Tallents wins teaching innovation award
Dr Lucy Tallents is a winner in the ‘Higher Ed Online/Hybrid’ category of the 2015 Teaching With Sakai Innovation Award (TWSIA), for her newly-developed course in ‘Conservation statistics’. Sakai is an...
View ArticleWelcome visitors to WildCRU
WildCRU were delighted and privileged to welcome Prof Lord Robert May to the Recanati-Kaplan Centre on the occasion of the DPhil viva examination of WildCRU graduate student, Arjun Gopalaswamy on 9th...
View ArticleWildCRU students in the London/Varsity Marathon
Two DPhil students at WildCRU, Ewan Macdonald and Carly Easby, participated in the London Marathon on Sunday 26th April 2015, running for the Oxford University Cross Country Club (OUCCC). In addition...
View ArticleOXFORD UNIVERSITY NEWS RELEASE: Wild herbivore decline may lead to ‘empty...
Decline of large wild herbivores may lead to an ‘empty landscape’ The global decline of large wild herbivores, especially in Africa and Asia, is raising the spectre of an ‘empty landscape’ in some of...
View ArticleWildCRU’s David Macdonald is named British conservation hero
Professor David Macdonald, founding Director of Oxford University’s Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU), has been ranked third in a list of Britain’s 50 most influential conservation heroes....
View ArticleTwo French language lion conservation publications released
Most literature is written in English, but our coordinator for lion conservation in West and Central Africa produced two publications in French, which is more widely used in the region. The first is a...
View ArticleLucy Tallents wins the OxTALENT 2015 WebLearn category
Following her success in the Teaching With Sakai Innovation Awards last month, Lucy Tallents has won the category of ‘Use of WebLearn to support teaching, learning or outreach’ in the OxTALENT 2015...
View ArticleThe Guardian interviews WilCRU researcher about dhole conservation
WildCRU researcher, Dr. Jan Kamler, was interviewed by The Guardian for an article about dhole conservation. Jan has been working on conservation projects for dholes in several countries in Asia during...
View ArticleMara Lion Project releases second quarter 2015 report
The latest update from the Mara Lion Project is now available. Download it in PDF format here. The Mara Lion Project by the Kenya Wildlife Trust seeks to sustainably conserve lions throughout the...
View ArticleWildCRU Otter article covers Journal of Zoology July issue
The cover of this month’s issue of Journal of Zoology (July 2015) displays a photo of a young giant otter. And the first article featured is one entitled ‘Effects of territory size on the reproductive...
View ArticleWildCRU postgraduate diploma alumna awarded SCCS-Cambridge intern prize
Malenoh Ndimbe, a Cameroonian alumnus of the Recanati-Kaplan Postgraduate Diploma in International Wildlife Conservation Practice, recently returned to WildCRU as a sponsored intern to attend the...
View ArticleBones of Contention: lion bone trade report released
South Africa, 16th July 2015—A new study finds there is little evidence that the Lion bone trade in South Africa is currently adversely impacting wild Lion populations there, but warns the situation...
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Where art and science merge – David Macdonald tells the remarkable story of...
The same beauty and wonder of Nature that drives us, as scientists, to dedicate our lives to understanding, and conserving it, expresses itself, for others, in their art. A few days ago we reported on...
View ArticleTour guide killed by a lion
Professor David Macdonald, Director of WildCRU, said: ‘All those at WildCRU who work on the Hwange Lion Programme were saddened to hear of the death of Quinn Swales, a very experienced tour guide...
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Why zebras (and thus elephants) matter to lions: David Macdonald tells how...
When Andy Loveridge and I explained about our studies of lions moving between Zimbabwe and Botswana in the Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (see newsflash August 21, 2015), we mentioned...
View ArticleWildCRU and Panthera announce the Cecil Lion Summit
Meeting of World Leaders in Lion Conservation Convened by WildCRU and Panthera at the Recanati-Kaplan Centre in Oxford in 2016 New York, NY – Partners WildCRU and Panthera today announced that they are...
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