Investment approach

The competition for land is intensifying and this wide-ranging predator is always the first to lose out.

Painted Dog Fund invests in the maintenance and rehabilitation of landscapes to sustain existing packs or enable reintroductions.

Painted wolves are free roaming and are a threat to communities’ livestock. 

Painted Dog Fund supports collaborations to develop effective coexistence strategies between people and the packs. 

Effective education is key to encouraging communities to value their wildlife and choose to protect and preserve it for future generations to come.

Painted Dog Fund supports collaborations that ensure effective education is delivered to young and old alike.

For many painted wolf populations there are limited or no proven conservation measures in place.

Painted Dog Fund invests in spreading proven conservation interventions into areas where they are absent.

Painted wolf packs are prone to crises where whole populations can quickly become threatened, due to disease and reprisal attacks from hostile farmers.

Painted Dog Fund is in a position to respond rapidly to save threatened packs.

Protecting their prey not only ensures that the painted wolves have sufficient food, but also prevents them being caught in illegal snares as a bycatch.

Painted Dog Fund supports robust and collaborative anti-poaching programmes.

Most conservation organisations work with isolated populations of painted wolves focused on their immediate pressing needs.

Painted Dog Fund invests to fund effective collaborations between organisations, bringing knowledge sharing and economies of scale.

Painted wolves are not widely known and the scale of the threat to them is little understood by the wider public.

Painted Dog Fund invests in building awareness programmes through advocacy, events, publications, websites and social media.

There is very limited investment in technology to support painted wolf conservation.

Painted Dog Fund invests in innovations to improve conservation techniques.