Camps in wild dog strongholds—such as The Bushcamp Company in Zambia’s South Luangwa National Park and Ker & Downey Botswana—partner with NGOs like ZCP and Wild Entrust, funding on-the-ground conservation efforts through bed-night levies, promoting public awareness, and directly donating critical resources, including GPS collars and field vehicles. “Their sightings can provide information that’s vital to our work.” In Botswana, Wild Entrust’s African Carnivore Wildbook tool enables tourists to share their own photographs to an AI-powered citizen science platform that tracks individual wild dogs across the Delta. Project Loeto is an ambitious trans-border initiative from Wilderness—scheduled to launch in 2026—that aims to safeguard wildlife corridors through monitoring, research, and wildlife-human co-existence programs across the vast Kavango–Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA), the largest contiguous landscape occupied by wild dogs.
Author: @NatGeoTravel
Published at: 2026-02-11 00:00:00
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