African wild dogs and African people – Conservation through Coexistence
Key Facts
FUNDING SCHEME Main Project
VALUE £393,675
WHERE Kenya
Summary
Hope for the coexistence of people and wildlife once came from Kenya’s Ewaso ecosystem, where a globally important African wild dog population thrived alongside local communities. Then in 2017, an epidemic killed 98% of Ewaso’s wild dogs. The rabies and human-predator conflict which block wild dog recovery also kill people, impact livelihoods, and threaten other large carnivores. This Kenyan-led project aims to locally eradicate rabies, and resolve human-predator conflicts, restoring African wild dogs, and hope, to Ewaso’s rangelands and people.
Community Outreach Arts, Northern Rangelands Trust (NRT), Smithsonian Environmental Research Centre, Zoological Society of London (ZSL), Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS), County Governments of Laikipia, Samburu, and Isiolo
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