David W. Macdonald

I am thrilled that Professor Amy Dickman will be my successor, taking up her role as the Director of WildCRU from January.

Congratulations to Amy Dickman as David Macdonald formally announces her new role as WildCRU's Director from January 2022. @AmyDickman4 @macdonalddw @OxfordBiology wildcru.org/news/prof-amy-…

WildCRU researchers and colleagues have captured the first ever images of Walter’s duiker alive in the wild during the first comprehensive camera trap survey for mammalian mega fauna undertaken in Togo wildcru.org/news/walters-d…

A new commentary by Vucetich et al suggests that Increasing pro-conservation behaviour among people likely requires better scientific understanding of how we shape the purpose of our lives, drawing on psychology and virtue ethics doi.org/10.3390/ani110…

On #WorldRewildingDay we celebrate WildCRU Wilding – our small-scale, 75 acre project, which releases the land from grazing back to natural processes at WildCRU’s headquarters wildcru.org/research/wildc…

WildCRU with @ioelephants and @cleverfranke are thrilled to launch #UnseenEmpire, an educational experience built around our extensive camera-trapping survey across Southeast Asia. Made possible thanks to @insidenatgeo #Tech4Wildlife wildcru.org/news/unseen-em…

A leopard, so the saying goes, cannot change its spots – but could the fashion industry play its part in helping to reverse the decline of this charismatic species? New WildCRU research published in the Journal of Nature Conservation explores this wildcru.org/news/leopard-p…

WildCRU @UniofOxford in partnership with @GAVentures_ & @OxUInnovation launch the world’s 1st Conservation Venture Studio. Created to rapidly accelerate novel technologies and innovative solutions addressing the world’s most pressing environmental problems wildcru.org/news/new-conse…

WildCRU star, Moreangels Mbizah, featured as one of 40 great Zimbabweans, and they’re right

An inspirational conservation leader and a wonderful colleague, congratulations John Kamanga

Please support @Action4Conserv and the Penpont Project, the world's first youth-led nature restoration project, by voting for them to win @EcoverUK’s #FertiliseTheFuture Fund. Vote by Dec 6 by replying below or sharing this post with #action4conservxecover

A downloadable Ebook in PDF form looks at how prides of lion researchers are evolving to be interdisciplinary @RECaP_Lab wildcru.org/news/lion-rese…

WildCRU are searching for candidates for our Postgraduate Diploma in International Wildlife Conservation Practice 2021 at Oxford University. Email your CV to us at wildcru.diploma@zoo.ox.ac.uk #postgraduate #diploma #oxforduniversity #wildcru #conservation #wildlife #scholarship

Early-bird registration for the International Conference on Human-Wildlife Conflict and Coexistence is now open. Deadline for early-bird rates: 31 December 2019. Register here: hwcconference.org/Registration-l… #HWC2020 hwcconference.org

Honoured to have given the plenary lecture @ORC2019 and a pleasure for us to catch up with friends and colleagues @GomeraM #ORC2019

Today the Seibu Lions baseball team host their Save Lions Event and will donate to our lion conservation work each time someone tweets #savelions before 4pm. We are so grateful for this generous support and encourage everyone to tweet as much as possible. oxfordujapan.org/save-lions/

WildCRU ex-Panther, Tafadzwa Shumbu, has won the 2019 Fairall Award for the best paper in the African Journal of Wildlife Research led by a student author wildcru.org/news/tafadzwa-…

Fantastic few days organising a business and conservation session and conservation marketing workshop at #CGForum_Ox. Too many people to tag, but @andersen_inger @IUCN talking about our research in the opening plenary was pretty cool. Thanks all! #futureofmarketing @SBSInsights

Wildlife action shots showing predation and other behaviours are unusual but sometimes appear in our #cameratrapsurveys - here a single frame captures a young lion chasing down a large giraffe in the #OkavangoDelta on Chief’s Island #Botswana #transkalaharipredatorprogramme

"I conclude, in honor of Fred and the students here, with the word hope", David MacDonald, Founder & Director of the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU), Oxford University @UniofOxford @macdonalddw #hope #ALUBCC #ConservationMatters #ConservationPays