Organized By Alexander Braczkowski
Manor Road,Oxford (51.757217, -1.244865)
One afternoon (~90 minutes) to eat cheese, drink wine and hear about the plight of the world's remaining big cats, and a chance to help an Oxford alumnus save the animal on our college crest. Confirmed speakers: - David Macdonald (CBE, DSc, FRSE) is director and founder of the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit in the department of zoology at Oxford University, where he serves as professor of wildlife conservation. David leads and manages a team of biologists working on everything from tigers to snow leopards in places as varied as Borneo and Bhutan, and everywhere in between. David is author on over 600 scientific articles, over a dozen books including an encyclopedia of mammals, and is also the creator of the acclaimed BBC tv series “Meerkats United” and “The Velvet Claw”. David has a particular passion for applied research, which aids the management and conservation of wildlife around the world. - Amy Dickman (Phd) is the Kaplan research fellow in felid conservation at Pembroke college, Oxford. Based at the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, she founded the Ruaha Large Carnivore Project in Tanzania, where she mitigates human-carnivore conflict in the greater Ruaha landscape, one of Africa’s last lion strongholds. She has 15 years field experience working on lions and cheetahs, and has a particular interest in finding ways for big cats and people to co-exist in extensive landscapes. - Mohammad Farhadinia (MSc) is a co-founder of the Iranian Cheetah Society. Mohammad has been a critical component of Iran's wildlife conservation efforts, specifically as they pertain to the Asiatic cheetah, Persian leopard, and the brown bear. He is recipient of the Rabinowitz-Kaplan Prize for the Next Generation in Wildlife Conservation, as well as the Future for Nature Award from Sir David Attenborough. He has a particular interest in finding ways to conserve the estimated 77 remaining Asiatic cheetahs in Iran. Proceeds from the event will go towards the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) Murchison Falls Lion Project (run by Oxford alumnus Tutilo Mudumba), which is responsible in part for the desnaring of lions and other wildlife in Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda. For more information, check out the WCS website at www.wcs.org. Thank you to Steve Winter for the use of his photographs in this event!