mardi 16 juillet 2024

East Africa (EKO) : Dogs saving elephants – and rhinos !

 



 
 

An adult elephant with an elephant calf face the camera side by side as they walk through a forest.

 


In the legendary Serengeti, almost a quarter of the elephants live in a 

tiny area protected by a team of just 4 specially-trained rescue dogs 

and their handlers.

They sniff out poachers and sound the alarm – the dogs have 

helped put hundreds of poachers out of business already, saving 

countless elephants being murdered for ivory. But outside the 

Serengeti, poaching is on the rise and there are thousands more 

elephants and rhinos that still need protection.

That’s why the team behind this amazing project is asking for your 

help to train more dogs and double the number of sites where 

these sniffer dogs are working – and save double the number of 

elephants and rhinos.

With these gentle giants getting killed each day, every moment 

counts.

Can you chip in to help ?

If just a handful of dogs protect all those elephants in the Serengeti

imagine what 20 or 30 could do in Etosha National Park

Poaching everywhere has skyrocketed in the past year, pushing 

endangered elephants, rhinos, and other animals even closer to the 

brink. An influx of support from people around the world could help 

get this anti-poaching gamechanger the recognition it deserves, 

finally helping solve our poaching crisis. 

It could also help governments justify funding programs just like this 

in parks all across Africa. And our community can be right there, 

advocating for it at every turn.

Together we could help spark the beginning of the end of 

poaching – can you help ?

It’s just an accident that our community found the amazing people 

behind the Working Dogs for Conservation. But once one of our 

members let us know the program existed, no one could stop 

thinking about it. This is our chance to be at the beginning of 

a life-saving revolution. We can’t wait to get started.

Thanks for all that you do,


Danny and the Ekō team.























More information :






Conservation

BBC 27 February 2024.

of America 17 April 2024.

The Guardian 13 May 2024.

National Geographic 01 June 2021.





















 






























Ekō is a worldwide movement of people like you, working together to hold corporations accountable for their actions and forge a new, sustainable path for our global economy.

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