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Painted Dog Conservation 26/06/2019 Painted Dog Conservation 26/06/2019

Video: The Mpindo Pack Update; Back at the Rehabilitation Facility

Most of you will remember that last year around this time we carried out a rescue mission to save the Mpindo pack in Mpindo village.

Most of you will remember that last year around this time we carried out a rescue mission to save the Mpindo pack in Mpindo village. We released them in December last year into Hwange National Park at Jambili pan. In February this year they were back in the village, predating on goats again.

Releasing the Mpindo pack at Jambili pan inside Hwange National Park: December 2018

We sent teams, held several meetings with community and our Executive Director Peter Blinston also met up with various stakeholders in the village to negotiate and work out compensation schemes for those who were loosing their livestock. We let the community know that we were only going to be able to safely remove the dogs when they den again in June.

The community accepted their presence and subsequent loss of livestock until we could capture and remove them. Luckily, we have the Rehabilitation Facility to provide alternative accommodation in such times of need while we search for another safer place in the wild to release the pack.

Over the weekend, Peter Blinston led a team and carried out the mission to remove the pack. Not something we would choose to do, but we had no alternative. We know of course that every individual is important and we will keep them all safe and sound until the pups are old enough to follow Mum and Dad.

Here is a video of what happened….

Painted Dog Conservation 27/04/2019 Painted Dog Conservation 27/04/2019

Hoo Calls from Painted Dog Conservation: 2019 First Quarter Newsletter

Read about the new challenges facing the Mpindo pack and the vital work of our Anti Poaching units plus learn about the difference our Education and Community work makes.

Read about the new challenges facing the Mpindo pack, the vital work of our Anti Poaching units and learn about the difference our Education and Community work makes http://bit.ly/2Vx5qr3.

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Painted Dog Conservation 15/02/2019 Painted Dog Conservation 15/02/2019

Painted Dog Conservation Annual Report 2018

We are pleased to present our 2018 Annual Report. 20 years on the front-line of conservation!

We are pleased to present the Painted Dog Conservation Annual Report 2018.

We would like to thank all of our friends and supporters who make the work we do possible. Not just because of your financial contributions but because you care. You work with us as an integral part of our team and we cannot succeed without you.

Please do share with us your feedback, we would love to hear from you.

Read and/or download it here.

Thank you!

Painted Dog Conservation 29/01/2019 Painted Dog Conservation 29/01/2019

#Dynasties now in USA

#Dynasties now in the USA!

Announcement to all our friends in USA! The much awaited Sir David Attenborough’s BBC Documentary #Dynasties featuring our Mana Pools study packs is now in USA. PDC facilitated the filming of the Painted Wolf episode for the documentary in Mana Pools, giving the BBC crew an exclusive access to our collared painted dogs packs. The same painted dogs also feature in the latest book by our Executive Director Peter Blinston and award winning wildlife photographer Nicholas Dyer titled Painted Wolves: A Wild Dog’s Life.

In the short exclusive clip below, learn more on how and why we collar painted dogs as Peter Blinston talks to the BBC crew during the filming of Dynasties' Painted Wolf episode in Mana Pools.

The #Dynasties Painted Wolf episode will air on Saturday 09 February on BBC America. A full program guide is provided here .

Painted Dog Conservation 28/12/2018 Painted Dog Conservation 28/12/2018

Mpindo Pack In The Wild Update.

The Mpindo pack had been resident at our Rehabilitation Facility since end of June this year following an urgent call to to extract the pack which had denned in a communal land. We only released the pack into wild 2 weeks ago. We released the pack into the safety of the protected Hwange National Park at the Jambili pan and since then we have them being monitored by our trackers to see how they fare.

The Mpindo pack is finding their way in the park. On the 21 December 2018 our tracker, Washington Moyo, who is keeping tabs on the pack had a wonderful sighting of the pack on the main road to Main Camp near Dom loop. He reported the following day that the pack had killed a Kudu. So much for adapting quickly to their new home.

This morning Washington brought back some pictures below from his tracking trip. The pack just killed an impala at the Dom pan near Main Camp again. The pack is doing great.