African wild dogs are among the most endangered carnivores in Africa, with their wide-ranging pack lifestyle bringing them into frequent and often fatal conflict with human land use.
African wild dogs face welfare harms that are both individual and population-level. Individual animals die in snares, on roads, and from retaliatory poisoning with acute suffering. At the population level, pack disruption from the loss of key individuals cascades into pup starvation and reproductive failure that threatens already critically small populations. Conservation approaches that address both individual welfare and population viability — livestock compensation programmes, snare removal, wildlife corridors, and community engagement — represent the most effective interventions for this species.