Adopt an African Wild Dog in South Africa
1. “Adopt a Pack”
This package covers 2 years of support for an entire pack of wild dogs, which includes necessary tracking collars, including a GPS collar and support to help cover veterinarian costs to ensure collars can be deployed timeously and other support towards management interventions such as injuries. An important note is that other costs such as daily monitoring/research, field work and other management and administrative costs are already covered by Wildlife ACT.
- VHF (anti-snare) collars = R18,000 (2 per pack)
- GPS satellite collar = R35,000 (1 per pack)
- Emergency Response Support = R25,000
- TOTAL = R78,000 per pack (5,200 USD)
Package includes:
- You will receive a free 2 day visit, for 4 people in the field to try meet your pack with our monitoring team. Please note accommodation is rustic.
- Detailed Quarterly reports with updates about your pack, which includes distribution maps and other information.
- A Wildlife ACT Section 18A Donation Certificate
2. “Track a Pack”
The breakdown below covers 2 years of support one pack. Important to note that other costs such as daily monitoring/research, field work and other administrative costs are already covered by Wildlife ACT.
- GPS satellite collar = R35,000 (1 per pack) (2,300 USD)
Package includes:
- Detailed Quarterly reports with updates about your pack, which includes distribution maps and other information
- A Wildlife ACT Section 18A Donation Certificate
3. “Support a Wild Dog”
Make any custom tailored donation of our choice towards wild dog conservation. You will receive a Wildlife ACT Section 18A Donation Certificate.
Wildlife ACT Banking Details
If you would like to make a direct deposit, please use the banking details below. Please include a short but clear reference to help us track the payment.
- Wildlife ACT Fund Trust
- First National Bank
- Gardens, Cape Town
- Branch Code: 201511
- Account Number: 62292413665
Why do we need to collar and monitor African Wild Dogs?
With the monitoring of Wild Dogs (also known as the African Painted Dog) forming the basis of Wildlife ACT’s wildlife monitoring work in Zululand, we’re often asked by our conservation volunteers about the necessities and purposes of monitoring the most endangered large carnivore in southern Africa:
- ‘Why do we need to monitor Wild Dogs so intensively?’
- ‘Why do we need to see them every day?’
- ‘Why do we always need to know where they are?’
- ‘Do they all need to wear those collars?’
Photos ©NeilAldridge
Here are 5 reasons WHY:
- Studying the animals and recording behavioural, social and feeding patterns for research purposes.
- Monitoring is an effective way of keeping track of these animals’ movements and demographics and learning about their ecology and population structures.
- Monitoring these animals intensively allows us to predict future movements and possible dispersals of individuals from their packs.
- We are able to detect if animals have left the confines of the park, allowing us to act immediately to bring them back, preventing conflict and interaction with humans and domesticated animals (eg. Domestic dogs, which could be carriers of Rabies, Parvo or Distemper virus).
- By being in the field with them on a day-to-day basis we pick up on poaching incidences quickly, animals dispersing from the confines of the reserve and injuries from fighting and predation.
So, there is method to Wildlife ACT’s madness of racing around after Wild Dogs in the heart of Zululand. The only question that remains now is: are you willing to join us as a conservation volunteer and help us fight against the odds for the survival of this amazing animal?
Text by Kevin Emslie
