Zimbabwe

Painted Dog Conservation
Wildlife Conservation Network

(www.painteddog.org)

The Painted Dog Conservation Organisation’s mission is to conserve and increase the range and numbers of the painted dog (Lycaon pictus) both in Zimbabwe and elsewhere in Africa by providing conservation tools and education material that can be used to protect this highly endangered carnivore.

Our belief is that Conservation does not occur on an island and so the objective is to undertake a holistic approach that encompasses all the stakeholders, particularly school children and local communities.

The estimated population approximately 100 years ago was between 300,000 and 500,000 animals. Today the estimate is some 3,000 animals. The Painted Dog has been wiped out, extirpated, from 25 of the 39 counties in which it formally resided.