Samburu-Laikipia Wild Dog Project
| NAME | Samburu-Laikipia Wild Dog Project |
| COUNTRY | Kenya |
| REGION | Samburu-Laikipia |
| COMMENCED | 2001 |
| AREAS OF FOCUS | Monitoring, Research, Community, Education, Awareness |
| NO OF PAINTED WOLVES IN THE AREA | Unknown |
| KEY PERSONNEL | Dr Rosie Woodroffe, Dedan Ngatia |
The Samburu-Laikipia Wild Dog Project aims to foster co-existence of people with wild dogs and other large carnivores.
The project operates outside protected areas, on private and community lands in Laikipia, Samburu and Isiolo counties in northern Kenya. The project is concerned with the sustainable coexistence of African wild dogs and other large carnivores with local people and their domestic animals. The project has four main objectives:
- To develop sustainable tools to foster coexistence of wild dogs and other large carnivores with people and livestock
- To understand infectious disease risks to wild dogs and to develop sustainable tools to manage disease threats where appropriate
- To promote landscape connectivity for wild dogs by identifying corridors and other landscape linkages
- To extend techniques developed in northern Kenya to other wild dog populations
