All News
Sandra Baker attends Expert Forum on Humane Wildlife Management, Compassionate Conservation Conference in Vancouver and UFAW conference in Zagreb
September 16, 2015Dr Sandra Baker, the Humane Society Research Fellow at WildCRU, recently attended an Expert Forum on Humane Wildlife Management in Vancouver. The forum, held at the University of British Columbia (UBC), brought together international experts on vertebrate wildlife management to inform the development of humane wildlife control standards. The meeting was co-hosted by The ... Read full story
Possession is nine-tenths of the law: David Macdonald explains how the work he and WildCRU’s Dr Chris Newman have been leading with Chinese colleagues sheds light on illegal wildlife trade
September 8, 2015Illegal Wildlife Trade (IWT) is big business – Prince William’s initiative with United for Wildlife seeks to tackle IWT globally, and the UK government has just announced £5million to redress it. WildCRU is in the thick of this topic (a review of this subject by Dutton et al can be found in Key ... Read full story
Incy Wincy Spider reveals the conservation impacts of organic farming – David Macdonald reports on WildCRU’s latest paper on the consequences for nature of organic farming
September 7, 2015Incy Wincy Spider’s movements up the waterspout were, according to the nursery rhyme, repeatedly thwarted by rainfall. In reality, spiders are very important, predatory, members of the fauna of farmland, and like Incy Wincy they have to disperse – that is, make their way to new places to forage and breed. This is relevant to ... Read full story
While a rose by any other name might smell as sweet, David Macdonald explains that it seems that from the perspective of the Chinese pharmacopoeia any big cat will do when it comes to the belief in the remedial effects of their bones
September 10, 2015In 2007 the wildlife trade monitoring network TRAFFIC reported that, in 2005, a Chinese wine producer received permission from the government to produce 400,000 bottles of ‘bone-strengthening wine’. The bottle was made as a replica of a tiger. The company’s website touted the wine’s aphrodisiac qualities in addition to its curative impacts on ... Read full story
A Murder Mystery Wildlife Conservation Course in Malaysia
September 7, 2015Who Murdered the Malayan Tiger? Join us for this experiential course in Malaysia where you will learn a multitude of skills in Wildlife Conservation to solve this Murder Mystery. Using a combination of novel teaching approaches as such gaming, role-play and onling learning, this course will immerse you in roles and tasks to apply current ... Read full story
David Macdonald explains how WildCRU’s Ruaha Carnivore Project informs general thinking on how to resolve predation on livestock
September 3, 2015Leandro Abade was a star pupil on WildCRU’s Recanati-Kaplan Centre’s Postgraduate Diploma in International Wildlife Conservation Practice (see details on this website). Indeed, his Distinction on that course convinced the Brazilian government to support his doctoral research at WildCRU, and now his findings in Ruaha, Tanzania, have been featured as model study in review on ... Read full story
«Return to News & Events