ZCP NewsZCP Annual Report, 2012
Showcasing our achievements and strategic partnerships across all our study sites over the past year. Conservation Club Webpage!
Check out what Zambian secondary school students are doing with the help of ZCP and Chipembele in the Luangwa valley! Click here to visit their new webpage. Zambia's Wild Dogs Hit the Big Screen
Protecting Lions from Poaching Snares
Zambian Graduate Students Visit Yellowstone
A sight that was thought to be history - lion prides return to Liuwa Plain in 2012!
Protecting wild dog in Luangwa
South Luangwa Conservation Society (SLCS) operates under the mandate of an MoU with the Zambia Wildlife Authority (ZAWA) and provides technical and financial support to both ZAWA and the Community Resource Boards (CRB's). SLCS supports 46 Kakumbi Village scouts with technical support, uniforms, rations, deployments, all patrol equipment, housing, incentives and bonuses and at the same time provides salaries for 36 scouts. A cheetah mother and her 4 old cubs hunt in Liuwa Plain
Photo by Egil Droge
Kafue Wild Dogs Highlighted in KAZA TFCA Meeting
Given this, the KAZA Secretariat called a special conference in May 2012 specifically aimed at conservation of wild dogs in KAZA and at utilizing dogs to promote the area for tourism. ZCP CEO Dr. Matt Becker attended this valuable meeting to assist in providing Zambian representation. Local Conservation Club Stand-Out Pursues Career in Conservation Research
ZCP Welcomes Back Newly-Graduated Thandi Mweetwa
Liuwa Goes to the Dogs
The month of September brought the long-awaited detection dog survey of the Greater Liuwa Ecosystem. Funded by National Geographic’s Big Cats Initiative and WWF, this work was a pilot study aimed at both evaluating the utility of detection dogs in surveys of cheetah and wild dog in remote and difficult survey areas, as well as in surveying Liuwa for these important and elusive carnivore species. ZCP Kafue National Park Annual Report, June 2010 - July 2011
Produced by: Robin Lines – Project Manager, Dr Ana Maria Puerta – Assistant Project Manager, Dr Matt Becker – Programme Director/CEO
ZCP Annual Report, June 2010 - July 2011
Showcasing our achievements and strategic partnerships across all our study sites over the past year. Press Release: August 10, 2011
Thandiwe Mweetwa to represent the Zambian Carnivore Programme (ZCP) at World-Renowned Wildlife Conservation Network Expo Oct 1 2011 in San Francisco.
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The 20 African wild dogs of the Sausage Tree Pack, one of ZCP's intensively studied wild dog packs in Liuwa Plain, will star in the BBC's upcoming Survival Series, a follow-up to the extremely popular Planet Earth series. With the assistance of ZCP, the BBC crew followed the pack throughout much of the 2012 season, chronicling the dogs as they raised their 12 pups, feuded with hyenas, and hunted the vast herds of wildebeest in the plains. We expect the release of this film will continue to highlight Zambia as one of Africa's last remaining wild dog populations. Stay tuned!
Wire poaching snares set for the commercial bushmeat trade can frequently injure or kill lions that accidentally encounter them. Together the Zambian Carnivore Programme, South Luangwa Conservation Society, and National Geographic's Big Cats Initiative are working to reduce this serious threat in the Luangwa Valley
ZCP's Montana State University Graduate Students Dr. Wigganson Matandiko and Jassiel M'soka arrived back in Montana for spring classes, managing to fit in a trip to Yellowstone National Park beforehand.
A sight that was thought to be history--lion prides return to Liuwa Plain in 2012! Made possible thanks to collaborative reintroduction efforts by African Parks, the Zambian Carnivore Programme, Zambia Wildlife Authority, and WWF-Netherlands!
Read about our collaborative wild dog work with partner organization, the 
Spanning six countries and over 287,132 km2, the vast Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA TFCA) houses the world’s largest population of wild dogs.
Thandiwe Mweetwa, a local graduate of Yosefe school in Mfuwe and a stand-out student identified and supported by Chipembele (CWET) during that time, returned to the Luangwa this year from Canada after completing her undergraduate degree in biology at University of British Columbia in Vancouver.
Thandiwe works with ZCP as a core part of the Ecology Staff. She conducts field research on large carnivores and their habitat and prey, as well as training new staff members in all aspects of field research and conservation. She’s currently conducting a directed study on lion cub survival as well as co-authoring a study on understanding and reducing human-carnivore conflict in rural Zambia to submit for publication. Thandiwe is also hoping to help institute a training program for Conservation Club girls in the near future to give other promising students the opportunity to become wildlife researchers and conservationists in South Luangwa.
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