Assessing the status of Endangered Leopards in Southeast Asia

18/10/2024

The Critically Endangered Indochinese leopard (Panthera pardus delacouri) has disappeared from at least 95% of its historical range in Southeast Asia. Despite remaining populations being small and isolated, no data exists regarding their densities or factors that affect their habitat use. The Endangered Javan leopard (P. pardus melas), the most morphologically and genetically distinct leopard ... Read full story

Evaluating protected area location in Borneo

27/08/2024

Protected Areas are crucial for wildlife conservation - but their location is often influenced more by human expediency rather than biodiversity benefit. A new paper led by Ewan Macdonald demonstrates this reality in the context of Sunda clouded leopard conservation in Borneo. Through comparing seven protected area scenarios against modelled forest loss, the authors show ... Read full story

WildCRU 2023 Impact Report now available

08/07/2024

“Science and conservation action are deeply entwined within WildCRU's DNA, with each informing the other to understand and tackle some of the most challenging issues facing biodiversity today”, says Professor Amy Dickman, Director of Oxford University’s Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU). The breadth of these challenges, and the diversity of WildCRU’s work ... Read full story

In loving memory of Meshach Pierre

24/09/2024

Last week we received dreadful news that our good friend Meshach Pierre had died in "his place in the world" - Guyana. Meshach was in the 2018 Diploma class, and will be missed by us all, especially his classmates and those that taught him. As we process the sad news of his departure, and talk ... Read full story

Wildlife trade insights from patent analysis

07/08/2024

A new paper by WildCRU’s Amy Hinsley analyses 50 years of commercial wildlife-related patents related to rhinos, pangolins, horseshoe crabs, sturgeons, bears and caterpillar fungus filed from 1970 to 2020. Using a novel machine learning approach, the authors found over 27,000 patents related to the study species ranging from medicinal and food uses ... Read full story

Moving from Tubney House to the new Life and Mind Building in October 2025

15/06/2024

Nestled in the Oxfordshire countryside, Tubney House has been the headquarters of WildCRU for 20 years since 2004, representing more than half of our history. When our founder Professor David Macdonald established the WildCRU in 1986, he could scarcely have dreamt how the move to Tubney House would facilitate our growth, impact ... Read full story