We are dedicated to preventing Dholes (Cuon alpinus) from going extinct. We work internationally and locally to help with clarifying and solving dhole conservation problems while bringing about a larger awareness for dholes.
Dhole Conservation Fund is a new initiative to help with funding local conservation projects for the Asiatic wild dog called a dhole. Dholes, like many carnivores, are losing valuable habitat to human use and development. They are often persecuted by humans as they have been known to take livestock when their native prey has been depleted.
The Dhole Conservation Fund is dedicated to helping solve these issues and help bring about a larger global awareness of these amazing social canines. We see the dhole having a bright future in its home range but it won’t happen without some hard work and the dedicated people out there trying to ensure that future.
All this starts not in some dark jungle in India, or some remote mountain in Nepal, but right here with you. Many people do not know what a dhole is. Did you before landing on our page? Did you know there are less dholes in the world then snow leopards? If you didn’t, don’t feel bad. The dhole has been one of the best kept endangered species secrets out there. We are working on changing that! We want everyone to know what a dhole is! We are working with many different partners out there to get the message out about them. By learning about dholes on our page we hope you will spread the word to someone else today.
Dhole Conservation Fund is a new initiative to help with funding local conservation projects for the Asiatic wild dog called a dhole. Dholes, like many carnivores, are losing valuable habitat to human use and development. They are often persecuted by humans as they have been known to take livestock when their native prey has been depleted.
The Dhole Conservation Fund is dedicated to helping solve these issues and help bring about a larger global awareness of these amazing social canines. We see the dhole having a bright future in its home range but it won’t happen without some hard work and the dedicated people out there trying to ensure that future.
All this starts not in some dark jungle in India, or some remote mountain in Nepal, but right here with you. Many people do not know what a dhole is. Did you before landing on our page? Did you know there are less dholes in the world then snow leopards? If you didn’t, don’t feel bad. The dhole has been one of the best kept endangered species secrets out there. We are working on changing that! We want everyone to know what a dhole is! We are working with many different partners out there to get the message out about them. By learning about dholes on our page we hope you will spread the word to someone else today.
Why Dholes
We get asked this often enough. Why are we trying to save a species very few people have even heard of? Well that’s a big part of it. We want to help the underdog. Dholes are unique in the carnivore world as they hunt and live in packs, like wolves and African wild dogs. They have a family life. They have individual personalities. They hunt to survive and raise pups as a pack. Unlike the tigers and leopards, which the dhole shares space with, dholes seem to work together to better the pack and insure the survival of the future generations.
If their individuality wasn’t enough to make one fall in love with this red dog, they also could provide a vital ecological service. Ambush hunters rely mainly on stealth and approach-ability when hunting prey. Pack hunters will use stealth but they also test their prey. They might watch and stalk their prey which allows them to test the animals they are hunting. They will go for slower and potentially weaker prey having what is called a culling effect. This means that dholes are taking the worst of the herd. In the long run this technique of hunting has proven to benefit hunter, prey and the ecosystem as a whole. If able to be proven true in dholes, like it has been in wolves, this could make the dhole a keystone species in its home range and a chief component to preserving the local ecology.
Not enough reason for you? Well how often do you get a chance to save a species who only really needs is a chance? There is no changing tradition to protect dholes, they are not used in Chinese medicine or even hunted for sport. There is no need to spend millions of dollars to start a captive breeding and reintroduction effort for dholes, at least not at this time. There are enough out in the wild to back fill where they are currently missing and knowing canine biology and behavior they might just be able to do it on their own. All they really need is a chance. They need someone to stand up and say, “We want this species to live.” That’s why we do what we do. Dhole might be able to howl, bark, growl and even whistle, but they cannot speak and so we give them our voice to let the world know they are here and that they matter.
If their individuality wasn’t enough to make one fall in love with this red dog, they also could provide a vital ecological service. Ambush hunters rely mainly on stealth and approach-ability when hunting prey. Pack hunters will use stealth but they also test their prey. They might watch and stalk their prey which allows them to test the animals they are hunting. They will go for slower and potentially weaker prey having what is called a culling effect. This means that dholes are taking the worst of the herd. In the long run this technique of hunting has proven to benefit hunter, prey and the ecosystem as a whole. If able to be proven true in dholes, like it has been in wolves, this could make the dhole a keystone species in its home range and a chief component to preserving the local ecology.
Not enough reason for you? Well how often do you get a chance to save a species who only really needs is a chance? There is no changing tradition to protect dholes, they are not used in Chinese medicine or even hunted for sport. There is no need to spend millions of dollars to start a captive breeding and reintroduction effort for dholes, at least not at this time. There are enough out in the wild to back fill where they are currently missing and knowing canine biology and behavior they might just be able to do it on their own. All they really need is a chance. They need someone to stand up and say, “We want this species to live.” That’s why we do what we do. Dhole might be able to howl, bark, growl and even whistle, but they cannot speak and so we give them our voice to let the world know they are here and that they matter.
How We FUnd
We rely on private donations to fund these on the ground projects. And now we allow people to direct where those donations go. Starting in 2021 we now fundraise for the given project as soon as they are approved. We do this via social media, so please go join our Facebook page. We will promote a given project for sometime and allow them to gain as much funds as possible.
