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About CWAC
The Centre for Wildlife Assessment and Conservation (CWAC) is based at The University of Reading in the UK and provides both practitioners and students of wildlife conservation with resources and facilities to assist their research.
CWAC was established to create a link between conservation practitioners and university academics. These two groups need to work together to further wildlife conservation by identifying and solving problems. CWAC facilitates this interaction by ensuring that appropriate research is carried out, that the results of this research reach the right people and, where possible, that on-site implementation of the findings occurs.
At the Centre there is a core team of research experts covering a variety of in-depth conservation topics. Please click on individual team members to find out more.
Latest CWAC News
Latest
Eagle Owl Research Published - Friday 7th March 2008
The latest findings of a long-running research project based in Spain into the ecology of the eagle owl (Bubo bubo) have been published this month.
The study, supervised by CWAC Director Dr Graham Holloway, was into the relationships of the eagle owl with its key prey species: rabbits. It reveals that the birds take visual cues from their prey to deduce their health and fitness. By doing this they are able to selectively predate rabbits that will be easier to catch.
Read a PDF of the new paper by clicking...HERE
New
Website Launched for the 'What the Cat Brought In' Project -
Tuesday 28th January 2008
The ‘What the Cat Brought In’ project is a four year study of the interactions between urban birds and cats. Britain's bird populations have been falling in recent years, as a result of many different factors, and it has been speculated that domestic cats may be an additional factor contributing to their declines.
The ‘What the Cat Brought In’ project was developed by Dr Phil Baker and is now being conducted by Becky Dulieu, Phil's new PhD student, with the help of several other undergraduate and postgraduate students.
For more information on this study please visit the projects new website by clicking...HERE.
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