WildCRU

The Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU) is part of the Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford in England.

More than 300 scientific papers and 25 reports have been published, over a hundred fruitful collaborations have been fostered, and over 45 students have completed doctoral theses.

[citation needed] WildCRU projects use all four elements of their Conservation Quartet: research to understand the problem, education to explain it, community involvement to ensure participation and acceptance, and implementation of a solution.

In a new initiative concerning ‘biodiversity and business’, WildCRU is working directly to influence policy making processes in industry.

[citation needed] Specific projects include protecting the Ethiopian wolf, Grevy's zebra and endemic birds in the Galapagos Islands, finding solutions to bushmeat exploitation in West Africa, community conservation education in Africa, sustainable farming, badger ecology and behavior, and the impact of American mink on native wildlife in Britain, Belarus, and Argentina.