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WildCRU's work is about solving conflict between peoples' futures and wildlife 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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The Orangutan Tropical Peatland Project
Working to protect and conserve the Sabangau peat-swamp forest since 1999.
The Sabangau forest in...
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10 May, 2013Scottish wildcat research uncovers rare migrant bird
A White’s Thrush (Zoothera dauma aurea), a migrant bird species rarely seen in Sco...
Read story in full > 8 April, 2013OuTrop orang-utan encounters slow loris on camera
WildCRU's Dr Susan Cheyne is Director of Gibbon and Felid Research with the Orangutan Tropica...
Read story in full > 5 April, 2013National Geographic visits WildCRUer in Ruaha
National Geographic reporter Andrew Evans caught up with WildCRUer Amy Dickman in Ruaha, and disc...
Read story in full > 8 February, 2013Special Issue of Folia Primatologica on Primate-Predator Interactions
We are delighted to announce that the special issue of Folia Primatologica on Primate-Predator ...
Read story in full > 20 December, 2012New lion population estimation paper from WildCRU
A new paper, co-authored by WildCRU’s Amy Dickman and Hans Bauer, has highlighted the drama...
Read story in full > 27 November, 2012WildCRU prominent in BBC photography competition
Three different WildCRU projects have been placed in this year’s Read story in full >
6 November, 2012Snow Leopard Action Planning in China
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31 October, 2012Gene flow in rare Ethiopian wolves
Some 450 Ethiopian wolves, Africa's rarest carnivore species, cling to survival in half a doz...
Read story in full > 31 October, 2012Rabinowitz-Kaplan Prize for the Next Generation in Wild Cat Conservation
2012 Prize Winner
Born in Iran, Mohammad Farhadinia was selected as the recipient of the 2012 Rabinowitz-Kaplan Pri...
Read story in full > 24 October, 2012Ethiopian Lions
A team of international researchers, which included WildCRU’s Markus Gusset and Carlos A. D...
Read story in full > 22 October, 2012A Conference on the Biology and Conservation of Wild Mustelids 18th – 21st March 2013
The website for the forthcoming Conference on the Biology and Conservation of Wild Mustelids, Sku...
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18 March, 2013A Conference on the Biology and Conservation of Wild Mustelids 18th – 21st March 2013
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