African wild dogs are among the most endangered large carnivores, facing persecution from farmers and disease threats that require innovative coexistence solutions.
African wild dogs suffer significantly from snare injuries that cause painful, lingering deaths or permanent disability. Animals caught in snares may spend days before death from blood loss, infection, or predation while injured. Poisoning by farmers protecting livestock causes agonizing deaths. Survivors of snare injuries often cannot hunt effectively, condemning them and dependent pups to starvation. Disease transmission from domestic dogs represents both a welfare and conservation crisis.