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Speaker Series: Painted Dog Conservation

Posted by in Africa,community-based conservation,Endangered Species,Featured,What You Can Do

Houston Zoo Call of the Wild Speaker Series resumes October 2010 with an exciting lineup of guest speakers.

March 23rd 2011
The Houston Zoo welcomes Dr. Gregory Rasmussen, Director, Painted Dog Conservation, Zimbabwe
 
Go to http://www.houstonzoo.org/lectureseries/ for tickets for this event.
 
African wild dogs (aka; painted dogs) are one of the rarest carnivores in Africa.  They face intense persecution by humans, often shot, snared, poisoned, or hit by cars.  Wildlife conservation biologist, Dr. Greg Rasmussen, is a world authority on predator conflict issues and has studied the African painted dogs for more than twenty years.  He has spent much of that time living among the communities in Zimbabwe endeavoring to understand their needs as well as the conflicts with the dogs.
In 1992, he founded and became Director of African Painted Dog Conservation (PDC) in Hwange National Park.  His research has lead him to base PDC on the following five components: Research; Direct conservation of the dogs; Conservation education; Capacity building for the future; Community development.  PDC employs over 60 local people and its ecology-based education program sees over 1000 rual village childern go through each year.  As a result of the awareness PDC has generated, the population of Africa painted dogs in Zimbabwe has doubled since the project began.  Your participation in this event will make a lasting contribution to the future of African painted dogs and the lives of the local people.

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