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.

Wildlife conservation is a dynamic, highly technical and rapidly changing field. It embraces problems spanning the challenges faced by particular species – some charismatic, others obscure, some imperilled, others pestilential – to the grand global linkages of the 21st century, between biodiversity, livelihoods, food security, health and climate change. Whether the focus is on species or ecosystems, on protection or sustainable use, on wildlife or people, WildCRU is dedicated to producing the science that builds the policies that deliver the solutions.