Wildway Africa Khaki and Safari Bush Wear Clothing Specialists actively contributes to the conservation of the environment and community by
- Offering minimal packaging when shipping garments to fight against the pollution of our planet
- Employing locals and supporting our community
We help to protect the African Wild Dog
We support the HESC (Hoedspruit Endangered Species Centre) foundation by donating safari & khaki bush wear uniforms to the rangers responsible for the conservation of the African Wild dog. The African Wild Dog is our country’s most critically endangered carnivore.
Please help
- If you have any interest in the efforts to support these endangered animals, please adopt an animal or donate here
- Follow Hoedspruit Endangered Species Centre on Facebook
Some interesting facts from HESC on the African Wild Dog
The African Wild Dog is one of the most threatened carnivores in the world following its dramatic population decline over the past 30 years.
On the African continent where it occurs exclusively, it is now the second most endangered carnivore (after the Ethiopian wolf), and the most endangered in sub-Saharan Africa.
As large tracts of land have been taken over for livestock grazing and cultivation, growing human populations have caused wild dog habitat to become discontinuous. Habitat fragmentation, persecution, and prey loss are the main reasons for their dramatic decline across most of Africa, as wild dog populations have become increasingly isolated in fragments of habitat with few human inhabitants.
Because they live at very low densities, even ‘fragments’ of suitable habitat covering thousands of square kilometres do not necessarily sustain viable wild dog populations.The current decline in the number of African wild dogs may also be partly due to the population dynamics dictated by their social system.
African wild dogs are obligate co-operators, and their need for helpers could generate inverse density dependence at the pack level. Declining numbers of pack members will therefore also have a negative impact on the ability of packs to survive under adverse conditions. Read more
Our team here at Wildway Africa can’t do it alone, we urge our customers to please do what they can, to ensure the future of our planet!
