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Supporting serious causes doesn’t stop you having fun! Newsflash from David Macdonald
August 11, 2015Singer Megan Bell, and her band Fireball Coma, played in Nashville, TN and raised $2,143.99 to support the WildCRU’s work). We are really grateful, and since the band wrote to tell us that they and their fans had great fun doing it, we are doubly pleased – because a cause is serious is no bar ... Read full story
World Lion Day – a message from David Macdonald
August 10, 2015“We have some wonderful news – a vastly talented animator, famous for his work on Disney’s The Lion King David Macdonald, Aaron Blaise, has produced a superb animation dedicated to Cecil. He will be selling prints, and donating the profits to WildCRU. Also, and it is truly wonderful, you can see the creation ... Read full story
Practical Successes of WildCRU
August 7, 2015A newsflash from David Macdonald who, together with Andy Loveridge, continues to explain the practical successes of WildCRU’s work with a focus on: Lions and local people Rural Africans living on the boundaries of protected areas are a frequently ignored component of the lion conservation equation. Subsistence farmers in on the boundary of Hwange National Park ... Read full story
When it comes to gratitude, we have long memories at WildCRU, says David Macdonald
August 11, 2015When Andrew Loveridge and I started the Hwange Lion Project, having been exhorted to do so by our friend the late Lionel Reynolds while we were sipping with him from a thermos of coffee amongst elephants at a moonlit waterhole in the late 1990s, we started from scratch, with zero budget. In the flood of ... Read full story
Cecil’s cubs – David Macdonald corrects more inaccurate reporting
August 9, 2015David Macdonald corrects more inaccurate reporting: We at the WildCRU have been puzzled to read some media accounts that one of the cubs born to the pride dominated by Cecil and Jericho had just now been killed, a report interpreted as evidence of infanticide by incoming males. Certainly, this (mis)information did not come from the ... Read full story
WildCRU making a difference
August 6, 2015David Macdonald writes about how WildCRU has made a difference: I am fond of remarking that, in my experience, it is very difficult to be interesting, but very much more difficult to be useful. At the WildCRU we are hard taskmasters because we try to judge ourselves on whether we make a difference – our ... Read full story
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