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Cecil Summit another key milestone in the lion conservation movement
September 5, 2016From: Stuart Gillespie's Oxford University Science Blog: http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/science-blog/cecil-summit-another-key-milestone-lion-conservation-movement A little over a year ago, Professor David Macdonald of Oxford University’s WildCRU spoke of his desire to harness the global interest in the killing of Cecil the lion, creating a movement rather than simply a moment. That journey continues this month with the Cecil Summit, a ... Read full story
Congratulations to Jonathan Baillie
August 31, 2016Jonathan Baillie, Visiting Professor at WildCRU, has been appointed Chief Scientist and Senior Vice President of National Geographic. This is a newly created post and will give Jonathan oversight over all of National Geographic¹s conservation programmes. From the National Geographic website: "At the Society, Baillie will lead grantmaking in the areas of science and exploration across ... Read full story
Ruaha Carnivore Project featured in article about the future for Africa’s lions
July 20, 2016Africa’s lions face an uncertain future but across the continent, conservation projects and their partners are working tirelessly to try to protect these incredible animals. One of those project’s is WildCRU’s Ruaha Carnivore Project, as highlighted in the report below, which also provides some interesting history on captive lion presence in the USA. https://news.mongabay.com/2016/07/what-future-is-there-for-africas-lions/
First test of oral rabies vaccine brings hope to the world’s rarest canid
September 2, 2016Research published this week in the journal Vaccine reports field trials of the oral vaccine SAG2 in Ethiopian wolves, Africa’s most threatened carnivore and the world’s rarest canid. The trials, undertaken by the WildCRU’s Ethiopian Wolf Conservation Programme in the Bale Mountains of Ethiopia, are the first ever conducted in wild populations of an endangered ... Read full story
Cecil Summit coming in September 2016
August 4, 2016In early September, the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU), together with Panthera, is holding a workshop to consider future initiatives to conserve the African lion. The topic is urgent because numbers of lions have plummeted over the last century from an oft quoted figure of around 200,000 to nowadays closer to 20,000 and falling. ... Read full story
EWCP Annual Report just out
July 19, 2016The Ethiopian Wolf Conservation Programme is a partnership of WildCRU with the Ethiopian Wildlife Conservation Authority established in 1995. With a global population of fewer than 500 animals perching on the Roof of Africa and threatened by habitat loss and disease Ethiopian wolves are Africa’s most threatened carnivore. Read about our work in ... Read full story
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