WildCRU collaboration reveals the loss of tigers and leopards in Laos

16/03/2020

David Macdonald presents WildCRU's new video summarising the research carried out by Akchousanh Rasphone and published in Global Ecology and Conservation. It’s easy to assume that Laos has tigers and leopards, particularly in huge, government-protected areas such as Nam Et-Phou Louey in the north, but it is likely that ... Read full story

Dr. Cedric Tan awarded Public Engagement with Research Impact Award from the Division

12/02/2020

Based on his research on large carnivores in Asia, Cedric created three interactive public engagement activities to demonstrate how our individual daily actions in the UK could have an impact on the tropical forest elsewhere. These activities are an interactive theatre, a carnivore conservation game and an escape room, all of which led to increased ... Read full story

Wildlife Conservation Course hosted in Africa for the first time

05/02/2020

WildCRU has collaborated with the African Leadership University School of Wildlife Conservation to bring the face-to-face Wildlife Conservation Coursen(WCC) to conservationists based in Africa in November 2019. For this course, we had 20 participants in all, with participants from Kenya, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Rwanda and 4 other countries. Many of them were on-the-ground field managers working ... Read full story

China: clamp down on violations of wildlife trade ban

12/02/2020

WildCRU researchers comment on China’s temporary ban on wildlife trade. 'In response to the deadly outbreak of coronavirus 2019-nCoV, China has temporarily banned the sale of wildlife in markets, restaurants and online. 'Read the full article published in Nature.

WildCRU’s Change Maker

05/02/2020

We are thrilled that our Kaplan Senior Research Fellow, Dr Amy Dickman, has been chosen as one of National Geographic’s ‘Women of Impact’. Her work with the local communities in Tanzania’s Ruaha landscape has led to significant benefits not only for lion conservation but also for local development and empowerment. We thank all of WildCRU’s donors ... Read full story

Research undertaken by Femke Broekhuis featured in new Netflix series ‘Night on Earth’

30/01/2020

What do cheetahs get up to at night? Many would say ‘nothing’ as cheetahs are often perceived to only be active during the day.  But is that really the case? This was one of the questions that Femke Broekhuis was keen to find out during her doctoral research at WildCRU. Femke analysed data from ... Read full story