Tuesday 19th September 2023 from 19:00 for 19:30
Abingdon United Football Club (Northcourt Rd, OX14 1PL, Abingdon)
Professor David Macdonald, founder of Oxford University’s WildCRU (the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit) began working on lions, in and around Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe, in the late 1990s. The project has grown to involve a large team, and covered a wide array of discoveries about lion ecology and behaviour, and their relevance to wider lion conservation. David, working with his long-term colleague, Andrew Loveridge, has published widely on topics such as landscape planning (the identification of refuges for lion and corridors linking them), ways of resolving conflict between farmers and lions, and the thorny issue of lion trophy hunting. The latter leapt to international prominence with the killing, by a Minnesotan cross-bow hunter, of the projects study-lion nicknamed Cecil. The resulting global media explosion and its aftermath is probably the biggest wildlife media story in history, and David was at the eye of the storm.
Hello. Can I get two tickets for the Wildlife conservation talk next Tuesday, 19th September? If so, how much do they cost?
Thank you.
Brenda Stevenson
Hi Brenda,
Tickets to all our talks are available at the door. They cost £3 per person for adults and entry is free for under 18s.
We look forward to seeing you there!
I am disappointed to have missed this talk. Was it recorded? Is it on YouTube?
Fiona
Hi Fiona,
I’m afraid the talk wasn’t recorded. We’ve attempted to do this in the past, but the lighting at the venue makes it difficult.