I joined the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU) in 1988, soon after its creation. Its aim is to undertake original research on aspects of fundamental biology relevant to solving practical problems of wildlife conservation and environmental management. Please follow this link for more details about the WildCRU, its projects and staff.

I am a conservation biologist dedicated to the conservation of threatened species, mitigation of people-wildlife conflict, impacts of disease, protected areas management, transfrontier conservation and the role of networks in conservation. I maintain an interest in the behavioural ecology of carnivores, particularly the biology and conservation of wild canids, focus of my early research.

Creel, S., ... Sillero-Zubiri, C., ... et al. 2013. Conserving large populations of lions - the argument for fences has holes. Ecology Letters Durant, S.M., ... Sillero-Zubiri, C. et al. 2013 Fiddling in biodiversity hotspots while deserts burn? Collapse of the Sahara’s megafauna. Diversity & Distributions 1-9 Gottelli, D., Sillero-Zubiri, C., Marino, J., Funk, S.M., and Wang, J. 2013. Genetic structure and patterns of gene flow among populations of the endangered Ethiopian wolf. Animal Conservation 16:234-247 Marino, J., Sillero-Zubiri, C., Johnson, P.J., and Macdonald, D.W. 2013. The fall and rise of Ethiopian wolves: a natural experiment on the regulation of populations of social carnivores. Animal Conservation Rueness, E.K., Gulbrandsen Asmyhr, M., Sillero-Zubiri, C., Macdonald, D.W., Bekele, A., Atickem, A., and Stenseth, N.C. 2011. The cryptic African wolf: Canis aureus lupaster is not a golden jackal. PLoS ONE 6(1):e16385.