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Protecting the African golden cat
May 3, 2016The African golden cat is a little-known and elusive felid that inhabits the tropical forests of Africa. Being dependent on those forests means that this cat faces threats such as deforestation and bushmeat hunting that are widespread across forested Africa. Our team has carried out the first assessment of their populations, and has further evaluated ... Read full story
Can the Cecil Moment become the Cecil Movement?
May 2, 2016A new WildCRU paper reports on the astonishing global media storm caused by Cecil the Lion, and David Macdonald tells the inside story of being at the eye of that storm: when, in July last year, the news of Cecil’s death in an allegedly illegal bow hunt, went viral, three of us, supported by the ... Read full story
Can the Cecil Moment become the Cecil Movement?
April 25, 2016This is the question David Macdonald and the team at WildCRU ask in a paper published today - and what we have in mind is harnassing the colossal global interest in Cecil the Lion as a force for the conservation of lions, and indeed big carnivores and wildlife more generally. To judge by another remarkable ... Read full story
Estimating cheetah numbers in the Maasai Mara
May 3, 2016In a paper published today in PLOS ONE, Dr Femke Broekhuis, Project Director of the Mara Cheetah Project and a post-doctoral researcher at WildCRU, said: ‘The truth is that estimates of cheetah numbers are only best guesses, because cheetahs are a lot harder to count accurately than one might think. They naturally occur at low ... Read full story
Cecil is the most influential individual animal in the world (wild or domestic) says TIME magazine
April 25, 2016David Macdonald reports on the poll that names Cecil the Lion as the most influential individual animal and asks what this means for lion conservation. The fascinating ranking of the world’s most influential individual animals, just published by TIME magazine, makes an entertaining read, and will raise a few chuckles: http://time.com/4301509/most-influential-animals/. It also raises some very ... Read full story
Update from Mara Cheetah Project
April 14, 2016WildCRU researchers, Dr Femke Broekhuis, director of the Mara Cheetah Project and Dr Nic Elliot, director of the Mara Lion Project already collaborate closely. This year they have also been working with another WildCRU alumni, Dr Arjun Gopalaswamy, on estimating cheetah numbers using spatially explicit modelling that Arjun developed as part ... Read full story
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