Blog posts tagged as Wild Dog Conservation

WATCH: African Painted Dog Collaring with Pippa Orpen 2020

Three African Painted Dogs were successfully collared to assist in their monitoring and effective conservation. With approximately 550 African...

Adopt an African Wild Dog in South Africa

With the monitoring of Wild Dogs (also known as the African Painted Dog) forming the basis of Wildlife ACT’s wildlife monitoring work, we’re...

How Much is the Life of a Rhino Worth?

The answer, as I would soon find out, just based on the illegal sale of the horn, is a lot. An animal that has roamed the earth for generations, a...

African Wild Dogs – A Road to Recovery by Tolga Aktas

I first journeyed with Wildlife ACT back in July 2018 where I flew out to KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa to volunteer on their Endangered Species...

Is it Painted Dog or Painted Wolf?

The genus Lycaon directly translated from Latin means "wolf" or "wolf-like", while the species name pictus means "decorated, embellished, painted or...