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, Smithsonian Environmental Research Centre, NRT - Northern Rangelands Trust, County Governments of Laikipia, Samburu, and Isiolo, Kenya Wildlife Service, Zoological Society of London (ZSL)
Regions
Sub-Saharan Africa
Biomes
RANGELAND, RANGELAND, DRY LANDS
Production
RANGELAND, RANGELAND
Threats To Biodiversity
INVASIVE SPECIES
Broad Approches
POVERTY REDUCTION, LIVELIHOODS, MIGRATORY SPECIES
Specific Tools
RESEARCH TRAINING, TRAINING, PARTICIPATORY, CEPA, TOURISM
