The Wildlife Conservation Research Unit
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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News
Cecil the lion’s son Xanda also shot dead in Zimbabwe
July 21, 2017
**Updated on 24th July 2017 in response to a statement by ZPHGA (see end)**
Xanda, Cecil the lion’s oldest surviving son, has been ... Read full story
Q2’17 Update from the Mara Cheetah Project
July 13, 2017
The latest update from the Mara Cheetah Project has been released:
- Part 1 (PDF, 1.7MB)
- Part 2 (PDF, 1.2MB)
This project, led by WildCRU researcher Dr Femke ... Read full story
WildCRU’s Paul Johnson had a clever idea, as he frequently does; this time, as David Macdonald reports, it was about why dogs are not the same as cats
July 12, 2017
Oddly enough the story began with neither dogs nor cats, but with the weasels and their relatives, the topic of a new book we are publishing entitled ... Read full story