This Giving Tuesday, I’m asking for your help.
Our PWF Leadership Centre in South Luangwa is almost complete – but it urgently needs a vehicle.
This is so our talented painted wolf conservationists can learn to track packs across harsh, remote terrain and to master safe off-road driving.
If they can’t reach the packs, they can’t save snared animals, fit essential tracking collars, or respond when danger strikes.
Watch this video here to see the challenges they face – it’s no game-drive.
We convert reliable used Land Rovers to enable them to get to painted dogs in trouble, wherever they are.
Please help us fund this vehicle so our future conservation leaders can learn to reach the packs when it matters most.
Amount required: US$35,000 (vehicle and full bush conversion).
No gift is too large or too small.
Join us this Giving Tuesday and be part of building the next generation of African painted wolf conservationists.
Thank you for your support!
Nicholas Dyer
Chief Executive – Painted Wolf Foundation
Director – Painted Dog Fund
Watch a PWF Leadership Centre student learning the art of bush driving in South Luangwa, Zambia
PWF Painted Wolf Conservation Leadership Centre
Finding experienced people across Africa with the specialist skills needed for effective painted wolf conservation has proven to be one of our greatest challenges.
To grow the next generation of African talent, PWF launched the PWF Painted Wolf Conservation Leadership Programme in October, with our partners Painted Dog Conservation (PDC) in Zimbabwe and the Zambian Carnivore Programme (ZCP).
At the heart of the Programme is the new Leadership Centre in Zambia’s South Luangwa Valley. This hub gives students the practical, field-based skills essential to protecting the species.
Future leaders learn, collaborate, and build confidence in real conservation situations. This is also where they are taught the difficult but essential art of bush-driving.
With the ability to host 20 African conservationists each year, the Programme and its Leadership Centre will shape a new, African-led generation of painted wolf conservation leaders.
