Dr Andrew Loveridge, head of the Trans Kalahari Predator Programme, who personally collared Xanda, and Professor David Macdonald spoke with Joe Shute of the Telegraph to explain the true story of what happened to Xanda the lion, and the effects of African trophy hunting. Read the article at the Telegraph website here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/really-happened-xanda-son-cecil-lion/
For thirty years, David Macdonald’s vision for WildCRU was to focus, often through our long-term studies, on down-to-earth empirical data that created the evidence to advance science and inform policy. These studies have always had a strong human dimension and we have striven to make them ever more inter-disciplinary. Building on that vision, about six […]
Following the success of the Cecil Summit, David Macdonald and Guillaume Chapron have borrowed from diplomatic language to emphasise the power of Oxford Format meetings. A particular style of meetings, dubbed The Normandy Format, was originally fashioned to tackle the crisis facing Ukraine. The Oxford Format, involving enforced inter-disciplinarity, appears to be a fruitful way to […]
Two new studies led by WildCRU’s Dr Andrew Loveridge, and co-authored by Professor David Macdonald, have highlighted the threat posed to lions by human activity – including trophy hunting. The first paper, published in the Journal of Applied Ecology, analysed the deaths of 206 lions in Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe – Cecil’s home – between 1999 […]
Lions, the iconic symbol of the African wilderness, are in grave trouble – they have disappeared from over 90% of their range and there are now fewer lions left than rhinos. Global interest in lion conservation – and particularly the role of trophy hunting in their decline – peaked in July 2016 with the killing […]
Lions, the iconic symbol of the African wilderness, are in grave trouble – they have disappeared from over 90% of their range and there are now fewer lions left than rhinos. Global interest in lion conservation – and particularly the role of trophy hunting in their decline – peaked in July 2016 with the killing […]
Tom Moorhouse and I were thrilled at the large international response to our paper, which was published exactly a year ago, exploring the impacts of tourism on wild animals (‘The Customer Isn’t Always Right—Conservation and Animal Welfare Implications of the Increasing Demand for Wildlife Tourism’) – it has since been read nearly 8,000 times, 2,000 […]
WildCRU alumnus and collaborator, Dr Dominic Johnson, Alistair Buchan Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford, draws on the Cecil Summit for inspiration on how we are to overcome the great challenges of the 21st Century. He writes, “Last week, I attended one the most interesting meetings of the year. It was the […]