After we donated a predator collar at the end of 2023 to re-collar a pack of Wild Dogs in Gonarezhou National Park on the border between Mozambique and Zimbabwe, extreme weather conditions prevented the team from African Wildlife Conservation Fund to deploy the collar safely. The collared alpha female had died in a snare. In May 2024, the team was finally able to deploy the collar on the alpha male. They also removed two horrific snares the same alpha male on that day! The collared Wild Dog is called Beon, 3 years old.

We recently received the following report from the AWCF team:

"This Wild Dog pack moves a really bad area for wires and is sandwiched by resettled communities who moved into the conservancy in the 2000's as well as being right on the southern perimeter. As such, being able to monitor them closely is really vital. We were super grateful for your support in providing this collar, so thank you, and a HUGE thank you to your donors too!"

Having GPS tracking collars on packs who live in close proximity with human communities is one of the main tools used by conservation organisations to monitor the dogs' movement patterns and prevent potentially deadly conflict situations.

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