In what has been described as a ‘major coup for conservation’, a pack of 15 Wild Dog has been released into the Mkuze Game Reserve – an area from which this species disappeared 75 years ago.
The reintroduction programme was a combined effort by the Wetlands Park authority, Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife, the Endangered Wildlife Society and the Smithsonian Institute’s National Zoological Park. The African Wild Dog faces extinction in the wild in South Africa, as a result of habitat destruction, persecution and competition with larger carnivores
WILDTRUST (registered as the Wildlands Conservation Trust - IT No: 4329/1991/PMB)