David Macdonald explains how WildCRU’s Ruaha Carnivore Project informs...
Leandro Abade was a star pupil on WildCRU’s Recanati-Kaplan Centre’s Postgraduate Diploma in International Wildlife Conservation Practice (see details on this website). Indeed, his Distinction on...
View ArticleIncy Wincy Spider reveals the conservation impacts of organic farming – David...
Incy Wincy Spider’s movements up the waterspout were, according to the nursery rhyme, repeatedly thwarted by rainfall. In reality, spiders are very important, predatory, members of the fauna of...
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A Murder Mystery Wildlife Conservation Course in Malaysia
Who Murdered the Malayan Tiger? Join us for this experiential course in Malaysia where you will learn a multitude of skills in Wildlife Conservation to solve this Murder Mystery. Using a combination of...
View ArticlePossession is nine-tenths of the law: David Macdonald explains how the work...
Illegal Wildlife Trade (IWT) is big business – Prince William’s initiative with United for Wildlife seeks to tackle IWT globally, and the UK government has just announced £5million to redress it....
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While a rose by any other name might smell as sweet, David Macdonald explains...
In 2007 the wildlife trade monitoring network TRAFFIC reported that, in 2005, a Chinese wine producer received permission from the government to produce 400,000 bottles of ‘bone-strengthening wine’....
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Sandra Baker attends Expert Forum on Humane Wildlife Management,...
Dr Sandra Baker, the Humane Society Research Fellow at WildCRU, recently attended an Expert Forum on Humane Wildlife Management in Vancouver. The forum, held at the University of British Columbia...
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Extinct tigers offer an opportunity to learn from history: David Macdonald...
Never believe what you read in the newspapers, some might say, but sometimes they can be informative. In a team of our collaborators, led by WildCRU’s Dr Cedric Tan, we used newspaper reports...
View ArticleWonderful accolades for WildCRU stars
Last week, at a major meeting in Abu Dhabi, the Species Survival Commission of the IUCN recognized the achievements of two acclaimed members of the WildCRU team. Dr Mark Stanley Price, a senior...
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David Macdonald up-dates followers of Cecil’s lion community who are asking...
I have heard from people who are concerned at yet another spate of unfounded rumours that the cubs have been killed (it is a mystery to us where the Press gets these unfounded reports). Happily we can...
View ArticleBlog post discussing Jaguar-human conflict
There is more to jaguar-human conflict than biology – human sociology is high relevant, as Silvio Marchini and David Macdonald reported in an article in 2012 (Marchini, S. and Macdonald, D. W. (2012),...
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David Macdonald reports that Cecil’s cubs are fat and well, gorging on a...
I reported recently that while our field team had seen the spoor of the lionesses and cubs from Cecil’s pride, and thus believed all was well, the lions had evaded sighting in the thick bush. Now we...
View ArticleDavid Macdonald reports on how British mammals are under the weather
History, so Arnold Toynbee had it, was “just one damn thing after another”, and that’s a bit how conservation feels – as if the Evil Quartet wasn’t bad enough (Jarad Diamond’s list of habitat loss,...
View ArticleThe Cecil Beanie: David Macdonald explains how this gorgeous plush toy is...
When the Vice President of the Ty Company that makes Beany Babies arrived at WildCRU’s headquarters in Oxfordshire, I did not fully appreciate the fame of these soft, cuddly toys, but within minutes I...
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David Macdonald reports how a leopard, at least in some places, unexpectedly...
Followers of the WildCRU’s work will know that we have a major project studying clouded leopards, spanning study sites from Nepal to Kalimantan. One very important site is in the jungles of Peninsular...
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As dull as ditch-water you might think, but David Macdonald explains how the...
Few people get excited by the small, temporary ditches in agricultural land, sometimes dry and sometimes wet. But these are the vascular system of farmland, the first collection point of water draining...
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David Macdonald introduces new WildCRU collaborator, Arthur Muneza, and the...
Anyone who has felt unnerved by press reports of SARS, or avian flu or, terrifyingly, Ebola is aware of the threat of emerging diseases to people. They can threaten conservation too. Take the...
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WildCRU gets a new ambassador when Dave Pocock visits the Recanati-Kaplan...
Australian rugby star, Dave Pocock in England for the Rugby World Cup is a devoted conservationist and spent an afternoon with the WildCRU team. Pictured with David Macdonald (left) and Ewan Macdonald...
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David Macdonald explains why the customer isn’t always right when it comes to...
Tom Moorhouse led a small WildCRU team in a study of 48 types of wildlife tourist attraction (representing thousands of individual institutions), ranging from poorly-attended street performances, like...
View ArticleEWCP turns 20
The Ethiopian Wolf Conservation Programme turned 20 in a rather tumultuous year; it found us battling a rabies outbreak that killed a third of all known wolves in the Sanetti Plateau of the Bale...
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Clouded in Mystery: David Macdonald explains how trade is a potential threat...
Neil D’Cruze, WildCRU researcher (and Head of Policy at World Animal Protection) led a study focused on Clouded leopard trade. We used information from CITES records, published literature and expert...
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