Lion numbers have disappeared from 92% of their historical range. The death of Cecil the lion and the resulting global outcry brought this sobering fact into sharp focus. Cecil was first fitted with a GPS satellite collar in November 2008 when he was between five and six years old. He was a male lion coming […]
History and Milestones Cecil the Lion & WildCRU’s Cecil Summit Area of Operation Lion Ecology Monitoring Populations Transboundary and Landscape Conservation Human-Lion Coexistence Research Methods The Team Sponsors & How to Support Us References Cecil was one of our study lions. We followed his movements in minute detail from 2008 to the time of his […]
As always, we’re excited to share details of how the support from our generous donors has been used and what it has accomplished. We are particularly proud of our three Zimbabwean scholars, each of them supported by Cecil Campaign funding. It was a great pleasure to see them together in Oxford recently and we took […]
What has the killing of Cecil the lion got to do with terrorism? Not what you might think, explains David Macdonald with the publication of a new WildCRU paper as part of the Oxford Martin School’s Natural Governance programme: people bond together for many purposes where they value a shared goal more than their own […]
New autobiography by Andrew Loveridge Read about Lion Hearted: The Life and Death of Cecil & the Future of Africa’s Iconic Cats in National Geographic’s ‘Book Talk’ by Simon Worral. Published by Regan Arts, Press Release excerpts with their permission: “UNTIL THE LION HAS ITS OWN STORYTELLER, TALES OF THE LION HUNT WILL ALWAYS GLORIFY THE HUNTER.” […]
**Updated on 24th July 2017 in response to a statement by ZPHGA (see end)** Xanda, Cecil the lion’s oldest surviving son, has been shot and killed by hunters in Zimbabwe two years after his father’s death shocked the world. Xanda, aged six, was shot by a trophy hunter on 7th July just outside the boundaries […]
Followers of the WildCRU already know that we invested great effort in the Cecil Summit this September. The goal was to ask whether, stimulated by the global attention stimulated by the Cecil episode, there was an opportunity to break the mould of lion conservation with radical thinking brought to us by experts from the fields […]
From: Stuart Gillespie’s Oxford University Science Blog: http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/science-blog/cecil-summit-another-key-milestone-lion-conservation-movement A little over a year ago, Professor David Macdonald of Oxford University’s WildCRU spoke of his desire to harness the global interest in the killing of Cecil the lion, creating a movement rather than simply a moment. That journey continues this month with the Cecil Summit, a […]