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August 4, 2022
Happy August. Our last update was on how World Dhole Day 2022 went back at the end of May. So, what have we been doing this summer?
Well, first we took a vacation to the beach and sipped on…
Of course not, for one I’m a mountain girl more at home in the temperate forest hiking than laying out on the beach. More importantly, the world is opening back up fully now! Flights are resuming internationally without restrictions and internal conservation projects are now up and running again! We are super excited.
With all that being said we are kicked back into full gear. I feel like my inbox is now full of interesting trail camera photos from around the globe of what people think might be dholes. Not all are but now and then I get a good one. Even better is the inquiry for funds and help on new projects. Like the one, we got from Friends of Nature Nepal. The more I got to learn about their Canids of Nepal project the more I wanted to help. We had limited funding but were able to get them a bit of what they needed to do their work. Luckily help came from Canada to help fund more of the project. Zoo Granby is opening a new dhole habitat at their zoo and wanted to do something to help their wild counterparts. Passing along the Nepal project details they were excited to help out as well.
We also reached out to a project we had heard from pre-pandemic and were happy to hear they were still active. Working in Cambodia on protected property the Golden Triangle Asian Elephant Foundation has been working to keep a corridor open between two national parks. While elephants are their focus their camera trapping efforts showed they had a breeding population of dholes! These dholes could help re-populate the national parks where they haven’t been found. They do need help to keep the land safe and to continue monitoring the ecology there.
It’s so exciting to see things getting going again. If you want to learn more about these amazing programs visit our Projects and Partners page and read about how they are helping dholes. You can visit their websites as well. If you like what they are doing we are taking donations to help fund their efforts. If you use that causes button or select that in the drop-down menu, all your donations will go to that cause.
We will do updates on these programs as they came in on our social media platforms (we’re on Facebook and Instagram now!) We also have uploaded all our Dhole Fact shorts to a new YouTube channel. We are growing and so is our support, thank you all who kept us going through the pandemic. Now on to making sure we help the dhole survive this wave of biotic crisis.
Chelsea Davis
Chelsea@dholes.org
Happy August. Our last update was on how World Dhole Day 2022 went back at the end of May. So, what have we been doing this summer?
Well, first we took a vacation to the beach and sipped on…
Of course not, for one I’m a mountain girl more at home in the temperate forest hiking than laying out on the beach. More importantly, the world is opening back up fully now! Flights are resuming internationally without restrictions and internal conservation projects are now up and running again! We are super excited.
With all that being said we are kicked back into full gear. I feel like my inbox is now full of interesting trail camera photos from around the globe of what people think might be dholes. Not all are but now and then I get a good one. Even better is the inquiry for funds and help on new projects. Like the one, we got from Friends of Nature Nepal. The more I got to learn about their Canids of Nepal project the more I wanted to help. We had limited funding but were able to get them a bit of what they needed to do their work. Luckily help came from Canada to help fund more of the project. Zoo Granby is opening a new dhole habitat at their zoo and wanted to do something to help their wild counterparts. Passing along the Nepal project details they were excited to help out as well.
We also reached out to a project we had heard from pre-pandemic and were happy to hear they were still active. Working in Cambodia on protected property the Golden Triangle Asian Elephant Foundation has been working to keep a corridor open between two national parks. While elephants are their focus their camera trapping efforts showed they had a breeding population of dholes! These dholes could help re-populate the national parks where they haven’t been found. They do need help to keep the land safe and to continue monitoring the ecology there.
It’s so exciting to see things getting going again. If you want to learn more about these amazing programs visit our Projects and Partners page and read about how they are helping dholes. You can visit their websites as well. If you like what they are doing we are taking donations to help fund their efforts. If you use that causes button or select that in the drop-down menu, all your donations will go to that cause.
We will do updates on these programs as they came in on our social media platforms (we’re on Facebook and Instagram now!) We also have uploaded all our Dhole Fact shorts to a new YouTube channel. We are growing and so is our support, thank you all who kept us going through the pandemic. Now on to making sure we help the dhole survive this wave of biotic crisis.
Chelsea Davis
Chelsea@dholes.org
