Samburu-Laikipia Wild Dog Project

Institution: 
Zoological Society of London, Institute of Zoology, U.K.

Primary Investigator: 
Rosie Woodroffe rosie.woodroffe@ioz.ac.uk

Project Manager: 
Dedan Ngatia, dedan.ngatia@gmail.com

The survival of cheetahs and wild dogs depends upon sharing the African landscape with people and livestock, and this project is concerned with studying approaches for their sustainable coexistence. The project operates entirely outside protected areas, on private and community lands in Laikipia, Samburu, and Isiolo counties in northern Kenya. The project has four main objectives:

To develop sustainable tools to foster the coexistence of wild dogs and cheetahs with people and livestock

To understand infectious disease risks to wild dogs and cheetahs and to develop sustainable tools to manage disease threats where appropriate

To promote landscape connectivity for wild dogs and cheetahs by identifying corridors and other landscape linkages

To extend techniques developed in northern Kenya to other cheetah and wild dog populations