RECaP's Snares to Wares Initiative has been featured on the Big Ten Network. Click on this link to read the article. 

Congratulations are very much in order for Sophia Jingo who has been selected as the 2016 Young Women Conservation Biology (YWCB) Award Winner by the Society for Conservation Biology. This award recognizes Sophia's outstanding contribution to the Snares to Wares Initiative, to the communities of people living on the periphery of national parks in Uganda, and to the conservation of large carnivores in Uganda. The award will be officially presented to Sophia at the 3rd Africa Congress for Conservation Biology (ACCB),  in El Jadida, Morocco this September. Congratulations Sophia!

Thanks to the incredible support of the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources at Michigan State University and especially  Communications Manager Eileen Gianiodis and Producer/Director Dave Ellis in covering our Snares to Wares Initiative. The College has prepared a large cover story with a 2-part video series. Check it out here.

RECaP's own Arthur Muneza will be part of a BBC documentary featuring giraffe conservation research. The documentary, narrated by David Attenborough, follows Drs. Julian and Steph Fennessy, Co-Directors of the Giraffe Conservation Foundation, over the course of a year as they work to save giraffes across Sub-Saharan Africa. A big part of the documentary involves the giraffe translocation project (Operation Twiga) in Murchison Falls National Park Uganda on which Arthur contributed in January of 2016. It should be an excellent documentary. ​Check out the trailers and BBC site here. 

Congratulations are in order for Logan Brisette who took 1st prize for her presentation at the University Undergraduate Research and Arts Forum on the campus of Michigan State University. Logan's presentation was entitled "Global Warming Effects on Multiple Mutualistic Interactions in Chamaecrista fasciculata." Congratulations Logan!

Patullo Award winner Remington Moll's creative writing piece is featured on the cover of the MSU Fisheries and Wildlife Spotlight magazine. Way to go Rem!

Congratulations are very much in order for Arthur Muneza who won the Best Retrospective Presentation at the 2016 Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Graduate Student Organization conference! Arthur's talk entitled "Regional variation, prevalence, and severity of Giraffe Skin Disease: A review of an emerging disease in wild and captive giraffe populations" won the top prize.  Following the award ceremony Arthur was congratulated and surrounded by supportive colleagues who enjoyed in celebrating his success.

Congratulations to Tutilo Mudumba who won the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources (CANR) Alumni Association Scholarship. This award is richly-deserved!

Arthur Muneza has received the 2016 Students Making A Difference through Artistic
Expression Winners - Honorable Mention digital media category. This award is provided by the Office of Inclusion and Intercultural Initiatives at Michigan State University. Congratulations Arthur!

The philosophy of the RECaP Laboratory, which works to find solutions for the two Grand Challenges facing wildlife conservation in the 21st Century, has been featured on Michigan State University's MSU Today.