Lions and The Trans Kalahari Predator Programme History and Milestones Cecil the Lion & WildCRU’s Cecil Summit Area of Operation Lion Ecology Monitoring Populations Transboundary and Landscape Conservation Human-Lion Coexistence Research Methods The Team Sponsors & How to Support Us References Barnier, F., M. Valiex, P. Duncan, S. Chamaillé-Jammes, P. Barre, A. J. Loveridge, D. […]
Lions and The Trans Kalahari Predator Programme History and Milestones Cecil the Lion & WildCRU’s Cecil Summit Area of Operation Lion Ecology Monitoring Populations Transboundary and Landscape Conservation Human-Lion Coexistence Research Methods The Team Sponsors & How to Support Us References In an intact natural ecosystem, animal populations are regulated in size by resource availability […]
Lions and The Trans Kalahari Predator Programme History and Milestones Cecil the Lion & WildCRU’s Cecil Summit Area of Operation Lion Ecology Monitoring Populations Transboundary and Landscape Conservation Human-Lion Coexistence Research Methods The Team Sponsors & How to Support Us The Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area Unifying five African states in conservation, the declaration of the Kavango-Zambezi […]
Jess combines her background in both conservation ecology and animal behaviour to try and tackle the issue of human-wildlife conflict in Botswana. Jess has a BSc in Geography and an MSc in Conservation from the University of London. She has previously conducted fieldwork studies in Kenya and Tanzania, as well as spending a year at […]
The idiom has it that as time passes water flows under the bridge: David Macdonald observes that as we approach the anniversary of Cecil’s death that proverbial water has been a torrent, but amongst the turbulence of debate and the swell of concern for lion conservation there is good news from Hwange: Cecil’s three lionesses […]
David 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 serious […]
The really important thing about Cecil the Lion, killed in an apparently illegal trophy hunt last July, was not just that Oxford University’s WildCRU team had tracked his behavior by satellite since 2008, but even more importantly because he was part of a dedicated long-term study of the whole population of lions. Now the WildCRU […]
The collected musings of WildCRU’s Founder and Director, Professor David Macdonald, Professor of Wildlife Conservation, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford. David Macdonald explains how the WildCRU’s long-term study of lions and the people living alongside them in Hwange NP, and the team led by Andrew Loveridge, has revealed how predator ecology and animal husbandry […]