Dr Christina Buesching publishes a new book on olfactory communication

September 9, 2019

David Macdonald celebrates history going full circle with the  publication of Dr Christina Buesching’s remarkable new book on olfactory communication: I formally founded the WildCRU in 1986, and one of our first, significant engagements with the wider academic community was to host, in 1988, the 5th international Chemical Signals in Vertebrates Conference at the ... Read full story

David Macdonald writes with excellent news following CITES decisions

August 27, 2019

I was thrilled this morning to hear news from Dr Neil d’Cruze at CITES. Neil, a member of the WildCRU team, together with Dr Lauren Harrington and myself, has, over recent months, been evaluating evidence that we believe demonstrated the need to up-list several species. Neil set sail to CITES armed with the ... Read full story

International Conference on Human-Wildlife Conflict and Coexistence

August 19, 2019

The IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC) Human-Wildlife Conflict Task Force, the GEF-funded Global Wildlife Program, and the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit at Oxford University's Department of Zoology are co-hosting an International Conference on Human-Wildlife Conflict and Coexistence in Oxford, UK, 1st - 3rd April 2020. Human-wildlife ... Read full story

Tigers burning bright in a small Himalayan Kingdom

September 2, 2019

Global tiger conservation is at a crossroad. The numbers of   tigers and expanse of their habitat have plummeted to a critical level in the last century. Some scientists fear that at the current rate of poaching and habitat loss, tigers might become extinct in a few decades. However, not all is doom. Bhutan, a small ... Read full story

Success of our first fully-fledged eLearning Wildlife Conservation Course

August 20, 2019

We celebrate the recent successful completion of our first eLearning Wildlife Conservation Course developed and directed by Dr. Cedric Tan. This course is an export of the WildCRU’s Recanati-Kaplan Postgraduate Diploma in International Wildlife Conservation Practice to a virtual learning environment. In October 2018, 120 conservationists from 15 Asian countries applied and 80 ... Read full story

Akchousanh Rasphone, the first Laotian women to graduate with a doctorate from the University of Oxford

August 7, 2019

WildCRU celebrates the inspirational achievements of Akchousanh Rashphone as she graduates with a doctorate from The University of Oxford, securing her place in history as the first ever Laotian woman to claim this accomplishment. After joining WildCRU in 2012 as a student in the Recanati-Kaplan Centre Postgraduate Diploma in International Wildlife Conservation Practice, Akchou went on ... Read full story