{"id":15890,"date":"2023-09-18T12:50:24","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T11:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/explorersagainstextinction.co.uk\/blog\/?p=15890"},"modified":"2025-02-24T12:18:37","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T12:18:37","slug":"in-the-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/explorersagainstextinction.co.uk\/blog\/in-the-field\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Field"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hubble-live-assets.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/eae\/image_asset\/file\/439\/content_ZCP.JPG\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2022 we partnered with&nbsp;<strong>Zambian Carnivore Programme<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We were particularly keen to lend our support to&nbsp;<strong>field-based conservation<\/strong>&nbsp;of cheetah and wild dog across three ecosystems in Zambia &#8211; these are some of the&nbsp;<strong>longest-running field-based projects in Africa<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ZCP&#8217;s annual report, recently published,&nbsp; confirms over&nbsp;<strong>5,000 person hours in the field<\/strong>&nbsp;in 2022, intensively monitoring more than&nbsp;<strong>1,000 carnivores.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are some of the takeaways in relation to the wild dog and cheetah field work we supported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>African Wild Dog<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>442 individual dogs in 49 packs and dispersing groups across the Luangwa, Kafue and Liuwa Ecosystems were monitored in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As well as providing key demographic data on critical populations ZCP also evaluated the impacts of bushmeat poaching, prey depletion and snaring on dogs as well as looking at the relationship with other competitors e.g, lion,&nbsp;in prey-depleted areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among the dogs being monitored was a&nbsp;group of females &#8211; they travelled over 2,000 km from the ZCP Luangwa study site, into Mozambique and back into Zambia\u2019s Lower Zambezi National Park &#8211; this is the longest-recorded dispersal distance.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Cheetah<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Monitoring cheetah can be challenging as they are the lowest density and most wide-ranging of the large carnivores. 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