David Macdonald explains how WildCRU’s Ruaha Carnivore Project informs general thinking on how to resolve predation on livestock

September 3, 2015

Leandro 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

Why zebras (and thus elephants) matter to lions: David Macdonald tells how the WildCRU’s lion landscapes work in the KAZA TFCA maps onto the biology of elephants and zebras

August 30, 2015

When Andy Loveridge and I explained about our studies of lions moving between Zimbabwe and Botswana in the Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (see newsflash August 21, 2015), we mentioned the importance of corridors of protected habitat through which the lions could travel and disperse. In Botswana, two of WildCRU‘s team, Kristina Kesch and ... Read full story

Where art and science merge – David Macdonald tells the remarkable story of art stimulated by reverence for Nature in the aftermath of Cecil’s illegal shooting:

August 21, 2015

The same beauty and wonder of Nature that drives us, as scientists, to dedicate our lives to understanding, and conserving it, expresses itself, for others, in their art. A few days ago we reported on the wonderful animated creation of celestial Cecil by Aaron Blaise (http://creatureartteacher.com/cecil-the-lion-portrait-time-lapse-video/) – Aaron, famous animator of The Lion King ... Read full story

WildCRU and Panthera announce the Cecil Lion Summit

August 31, 2015

Meeting of World Leaders in Lion Conservation Convened by WildCRU and Panthera at the Recanati-Kaplan Centre in Oxford in 2016 New York, NY - Partners WildCRU and Panthera today announced that they are organizing and hosting a landmark summit for range wide lion conservation in 2016, in honour of Cecil the lion, whose death ... Read full story

Tour guide killed by a lion

August 26, 2015

Professor David Macdonald, Director of WildCRU, said: ‘All those at WildCRU who work on the Hwange Lion Programme were saddened to hear of the death of Quinn Swales, a very experienced tour guide killed by a lion while leading a party of tourists on foot in the centre of Hwange. Our hearts go out to ... Read full story

David Macdonald and Andrew Loveridge explain their landscape for lions work surrounding Hwange National Park – Nature and natural processes are all joined up:

August 21, 2015

We have explained to countless journalists that our study of the lion Cecil and his companions is set in a much wider context that spans several countries, but because media reports are so skimpy they seldom paint adequately this larger picture. So, here is a brief introduction (and this is the framework for the lion ... Read full story