The following is a list of winter talks run from October 2021 to March 2025
Events are grouped by winter talk series so please scroll down the page to find our past events.
Winter Talks Oct 2024 - Mar 2025
Our winter talks are held the first Monday of each month from October-March. There will be a mix of online and in person events, restrictions permitting (see details below).
There will be an opportunity for questions at the end.
Mon. 14th October 2024: Culling in the name of conservation. Blurb: Hugh will talk about his latest book – ‘Cull of the Wild’ and the challenging concept of killing for conservation….
By Hugh Warwick (Local ecologist, author, photographer and hedgehog champion will talk about his latest publication)
Venue: 7pm @ Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Mon. 11th November 2024: Wildlife and conservation in Borneo. Blurb: Pygmy elephants and wildlife conservation in Borneo
By Shavez Cheema (Founder of 1StopBorneo Wildlife. A wildlife NGO and Wildlife travel company based on Borneo.
Venue: 7pm @ Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Mon. 2nd December 2024: British big cats - testing the theory. Blurb: An illustrated talk on evidence and implications of cats resembling black leopards, pumas and lynx reported across Britain
By Rick Minter (Presenter: Big Cat Conversations podcast
Author: BIG CATS, Facing Britain's Wild Predators)
Venue: 7pm @ Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Mon. 13th January 2025 -Mammals in the work of pioneer ecologist, Rev Gilbert White. Blurb: Rev Gilbert White is best known as the author of The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, and commonly referred to as the ‘Father of Ecology’. In this talk, Stephanie Holt explores his overlooked studies of British Mammals.
By Stephanie Holt
Stephanie Holt is an British ecologist and mammal specialist. She currently works at the Natural History Museum in London in the Centre for UK Nature. She is passionate about the intersection of ecology and history
Mon. 10th February 2025 -River Thame mink / water vole project
By Hilary Philips and Grace Cooper
Mon. 10th March 2025 -More than a thousand words – the power and pitfalls of wildlife images. Blurb: Talk will cover how images are used to promote wildlife conservation, present recent research on which images have the most impact, and discuss the emerging challenges posed by generative AI and image manipulation.
By Diogo Verissimo
Research Fellow at University of Oxford, focusing on design and evaluation of interventions to conserve wildlife, working across issues as diverse as the illegal wildlife trade, plastic pollution and fisheries management. Current Chair of the IUCN SSC CEC Behaviour Change Taskforce and a Board member of the European Social Marketing Association. www.diogoverissimo.com
Winter Talks 2023-2024
Mon. 9th October 2023: Giants of the Amazon: An Introduction to Giant Otters
By Claire Marr, DPhil Student, Lady Margaret Hall,
University of Oxford
Venue: 7pm @ Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Mon. 13th November 2023: Ethiopian Wolves
By Professor Claudio Sillero, Professor of Conservation Biology, WildCRU, University of Oxford
Venue: 7pm @ Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Mon. 4th December 2023: Lorises in anthropogenic landscapes: ecology, threats and conservation
By Marco Campera, Brookes Primate Group, Brookes University, Oxford
Venue: 7pm @ Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Mon. 8th January 2024 - Dogs and bears: unexpected human-wildlife conflicts
By Dr Antonio Uzal, Senior Lecturer, School of Animal Rural & Environmental Sciences, Nottingham Trent University
Venue: Online via Zoom
Mon. 12th February 2024 - Asia's Small Apes: Research and Outreach for Conservation
By Dr Susan Cheyne, Primate Group, Brooke’s University, Oxford
Venue: 7pm @ Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Mon. 11th March 2024 - What do we really know about dormice?
By Dr Debbie Bartlett CMLI FCIEEM SFHEA, Professor of Environmental Conservation, Faculty of Engineering & Science, University of Greenwich
Venue: 7pm @ Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Many of our talks are available after the event on our YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/c/OxfordshireMammalGroup
Mon. 20 March 2023: OxMG AGM
Our AGM will be held remotely via Zoom. We are always keen to have new members to join the Committee, so please consider volunteering. We currently have a vacancy for a Surveys Officer.
Winter Talks 2022-2023
Mon. 10 October 2022: Super Canids in South Africa: jackal ecology and their conflicts with humans
By Dr Jan Kamler
Venue: Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Mon 28 November 2022: Elegy for a River - Is it Too Late for Riparian Wildlife?
By Tom Moorhouse
Venue: Oxford University Museum of Natural History
9th January 2023: National Harvest Mouse Survey update
By Dr Frazer Coomber, Science Officer for the Mammal Society. Venue: 7pm Zoom talk - not in person
Mon. 13 February 2023: Australian Mammals
By Jack Ashby
Venue: 7pm @ Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Mon. 13 March 2023: Gibbons
By Dr Susan Cheyne
Venue: 7pm @ Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Many of our talks are available after the event on our YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/c/OxfordshireMammalGroup
Winter Talks 2021-2022
Monday, October 11th, 7pm, online
"Why did the rhino cross the road?" delivered byManuela Gonzalez-Suarez from the School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading
Monday, November 8th, 7pm, online
"Wolf", will explore the private lives of wolves delivered by Michał Figura from the Institute of Functional Biology and Ecology at the University of Warsaw and the Association for Nature
Mon. 10 January: Osteological Oddities: Obscure bones
of the mammal skeleton
By Ric Morris of Shropshire Mammal Group
An online presentation for Oxfordshire Mammal Group
Mammal Group
Mon. 14 February: Rewilding in Britain
By Dr Chris Sandom from University of Sussex
Mon. 14 March: Being a Beast: a defence of anthropomorphism
By Charles Foster
