The Guardian features Dr Amy Dickman on their Science Weekly podcast

December 4, 2019

As featured in The Guardian Science Weekly: Amy Dickman on her life of big cat conservation 'Dr Amy Dickman is an internationally renowned conservation biologist. She’s dedicated her life to saving big cats in the wild, working in Africa for over 20 years on carnivore ecology and how to resolve human-wildlife conflict. Amy ... Read full story

WildCRU’s Adjany Costa awarded the Order of Civil Merit of the first Degree by the President of the Republic of Angola João Lourenço

November 14, 2019

It is with admiration and pride that we at WildCRU witness Adjany Costa, WildCRU graduate student, receiving awards and accolades celebrating her dedication and achievements in the work that she undertakes conserving precious water and biodiversity hotspots in Angola. Adjany, with the Luchaze community in the Eastern Angolan highlands, is working to conserve the ... Read full story

The Oppenheimer Research Conference 2019

November 7, 2019

Every year the Oppenheimer Research Conference brings together select individuals and organisations operating and/or interested in the fields of natural and environmental science. It is an academic research conference that uniquely offers a diverse and multi-disciplinary programme. This year marked the 10th anniversary of the Oppenheimer Research Conference, the following video, featuring David Macdonald, celebrates the ... Read full story

Tutilo Mudumba, WildCRU Panther alumnus, completes his doctorate

December 4, 2019

WildCRU congratulates Tutilo Mudumba on the successful completion of his PhD this year (2019). In 2011 Tutilo joined us to undertake the Recanati-Kaplan Centre Postgraduate Diploma in International Wildlife Conservation Practice. Since then he has gone on to join Professor Bob Montgomery of Michegan State University in the RECaP Laboratory where he has undertaken his ... Read full story

Pathways Africa 2020

November 11, 2019

WildCRU members, Amy Dickman and Alayne Cotterill, are two of six founding members of The Pride Lion Conservation Alliance - an alliance of carnivore conservation organisation leaders developed to demonstrate an innovative, non-competitive conservation model. Based on the success of this model for improving the impact and resilience of their own work, Pride ... Read full story

Telomeres

November 7, 2019

One of the great mysteries of life, and a driving force in evolutionary ecology, is that we wear out. This distressing reality afflicts the badgers of Wytham Wood as much as it does the WildCRU team that studies them. Cell regeneration, that keeps the body functional and healthy, gradually becomes less efficient until tissues and organs ... Read full story