WildCRU making a difference

August 6, 2015

David 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

Followers of the Cecil Appeal

August 5, 2015

Another amazing opportunity for conservation as a result of your donations, says David Macdonald, WildCRU’s Director: we are striving to keep our donors and supporters up-to-date with developments. Two exciting developments have unfolded overnight. First, thanks to the remarkable generosity of Ty Beanie Babies, who have decided to donate the profits of a Cecil Beanie ... Read full story

Amazing news about Cecil Appeal

August 4, 2015

Aided by the $100,000 matching pledge from Tom and Daphne Kaplan, intended to push the Cecil Appeal to half a million pounds, we have just crossed that line, and hope to keep the momentum. We are hugely grateful to all the donors, large and small, who have achieved this incredible memorial to the illegal death ... Read full story

Cara Delevingne auctions watch in aid of Wildcru conservation efforts

August 6, 2015

David Macdonald, WildCRU’s Director writes that: Last week Dr Dawn Burnham and I were fumbling through suitcases in the baggage arrival area of Heathrow airport, returning from observing lions in South Africa. We had been attending an excellent conference at Rhodes University where Dawn had delivered a paper on WildCRU’s research on why charismatic big ... Read full story

The Empire State Building and a reflection from David Macdonald

August 4, 2015

The photo of Cecil, projected onto the Empire State Building is deeply evocative. Of course, for Andy Loveridge and me, and our dedicated team at Hwange it leaves us reeling with emotion, and deep gratitude to the more than 11,000 people who have donated to our project. But more personally, I think back to the ... Read full story

A message from David Macdonald to Cecil’s supporters – now for some biology: Andy Loveridge and I repeat our thanks to all those who have donated to the appeal.

August 3, 2015

In countless interviews we have repeated that lion society is very complicated, and that it takes endless work, lots of skill and many years to understand it. We thought it would help you understand this if we provided a biography of Cecil – and Andy has written this as of 2nd August. When you read ... Read full story