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WildCRU's work is about solving conflict between peoples' futures and wild life conservation.
The planet’s human population increases by more than 200,000 people every day. This exerts ever more severe and intensifying pressure on finite natural resources throughout the world. The resulting environmental degradation, biodiversity loss and climate change destroys nature and impacts human well-being. The mission of the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU) is to achieve practical solutions to conservation problems through original scientific research. Our research is used worldwide to advise environmental policy-makers. The need for our efforts is greater than ever.
Part of the University of Oxford’s Department of Zoology, WildCRU is a pioneering, inter-disciplinary research unit in a world-class academic centre. We underpin solutions to conservation problems through primary scientific research of the highest calibre. Our approach is empirical, interdisciplinary and collaborative, seeking to include all four elements of our ‘Conservation Quartet’: research to understand and address the problem; education to explain it; community involvement to ensure participation and acceptance; and implementation of long-term solutions.
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Ruaha Carnivore Conservation
Today, conservation scientists face the daunting challenge of maintaining biodiversity in an increasingly human-dominated landscape. Although protecte...
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30 August, 2010Compassionate Conservation Conference
On Wednesday the 1st of September 2010 The Compassio...
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7 July, 2010
The Biology and Conservation of Wild Felids
The Biology and Conservation of Wild Felids edited by David Macdonald and Andrew Loveridge was pub...
Read story in full > 14 June, 2010Professor Macdonald to be awarded a CBE
It is with immense pride that we announce that our founder and director: Professor David Macdonald...
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