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 References Ecologists face the complicated task of understanding the interwoven relationships of key aspects of […]
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 African lion populations have suffered an estimated 75% range reduction in the last 100 years. Continent wide, there may be as […]
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 […]
Conservation Scientist David Macdonald Nominee for Prestigious Honour David Macdonald, Oxford University’s first Professor of Wildlife Conservation, is accustomed to his work being in the limelight. The BBC TV documentary about his doctoral thesis, The Night of the Fox, was a finalist for a BAFTA award, his work on meerkats in the Kalahari led to […]
International treaties are important in wildlife conservation. They provide legal frameworks for conservation strategies that have to work across national borders – which is especially important for the wide-ranging large carnivore species and their prey. Indeed, legal instruments designed to protect megafauna may also cast a protective shadow over wider biodiversity. In recent research, WildCRU […]
In 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 rheumatism. Although distressing to conservationists, […]
WildCRU’s approach is essentially inter-disciplinary, as vividly illustrated by our new collaboration with international lawyers. It’s hard to imagine a more charismatic mammal – emblazoned on football shirts, royal coats of arms, chocolate bars and then just think of the attention dedicated to Cecil – but lions are nonetheless declining at an alarming rate. Where […]