MNC Dog Project - pictures from workshop
Domestic dogs are an essential part of the Maasai culture and are used for guarding and protecting livestock from wild animal predators. The guard dogs thereby help reduce the human-wildlife conflicts, which are inevitable in areas where humans and wildlife coexists. However, the number of dogs in the Maasai Mara ecosystem is increasing rapidly and free-roaming domestic dogs now pose a real threat to wildlife by transferring diseases and chasing, disturbing and killing wildlife.
In August 2018, the Karen Blixen Camp Trust launched the Mara North Concervancy Dog Project (MNCDog Project). The program has been established to assist Mara North Conservancy and the local community in dealing with the challenges involved in having (too many) domestic dogs, including disease transfer, scavenging in villages, and dogs roaming the conservancy in pursuit of wildlife.
Read more here.