"The African wild dog, Lycaon pictus, is one of Africa's most endangered carnivores. It is Red Listed by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature ( IUCN) as an Endangered Species. The reasons given by IUCN for this decline are human induced loss of habitat and persecution by humans. According to the IUCN report on wild dogs, there are between 3.000 and 5.500 free ranging wild dogs left in Africa today.
The local governments could protect this extremely endangered species by law!
One way in which the trade and capture of wild dogs could be monitored and controlled would be for them to be listed on CITES, Appendix I or II. ( Convention of International Trade in Endangered Species) . That means that the African wild dog, Lycaon pictus, should be placed on CITES as soon as possible to afford a greater level of protection"
"The African wild dog, Lycaon pictus, is one of Africa's most endangered carnivores. It is Red Listed by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature ( IUCN) as an Endangered Species. The reasons given by IUCN for this decline are human induced loss of habitat and persecution by humans. According to the IUCN report on wild dogs, there are between 3.000 and 5.500 free ranging wild dogs left in Africa today.
The local governments could protect this extremely endangered species by law!
One way in which the trade and capture of wild dogs could be monitored and controlled would be for them to be listed on CITES, Appendix I or II. ( Convention of International Trade in Endangered Species) . That means that the African wild dog, Lycaon pictus, should be placed on CITES as soon as possible to afford a greater level of protection"
We the undersigned!
ask all IUCN Members to protect all threatened species!
The Red List is great but the protection of the endangered species needs to become a major issue for all local governments. Only the local government can decide about the protection of wildlife!
We hope that you will immediately start investigations about the possibilities to protect the threatened species in your country in the best possible way.
We thank you for your interest and are sure that ECO Tourism will be booming business in your country, many civilized travelers want so see wildlife now and the numbers will increase in the future!
We signed the "Protect the african Wild Dog" petition!
# 1,697:
7:00 am PST, Nov 19,Lu Metal, Italy
# 1,696:
12:16 pm PST, Nov 18,Yvette Barnard, South Africa
# 1,695:
5:51 am PST, Nov 8,Cendi Wright, Texas
# 1,694:
4:23 am PST, Nov 8,Conseil Anais, France
# 1,693:
5:34 am PST, Nov 7,Alexandra MAUVE, France
# 1,692:
8:52 am PST, Nov 5,Carl Rosenstock, Wisconsin
# 1,691:
4:14 am PST, Nov 5,Ufo Ufo, France
# 1,690:
5:26 am PST, Nov 4,Marjo Luoma, Finland
# 1,689:
3:34 am PST, Nov 2,Helle Collin, Denmark
# 1,688:
11:03 am PDT, Oct 31,Name not displayed, France
# 1,687:
4:13 pm PDT, Oct 29,Oska Vant Hoff, Indonesia
# 1,686:
11:35 am PDT, Oct 22,Forest Venkat, India
# 1,685:
10:44 am PDT, Oct 19,Kristen Lamb, New York
# 1,684:
2:41 am PDT, Oct 14,Elena Georgiadou, Greece
# 1,683:
6:57 pm PDT, Oct 8,Nadine Wyatt, Tennessee
# 1,682:
8:28 am PDT, Oct 6,Lesley Sinden, United Kingdom
# 1,681:
1:03 am PDT, Oct 6,Florence Blanc, Switzerland
Courage on est derrière vous pour ces combats !
# 1,680:
9:43 am PDT, Oct 2,Łukasz Ziębicki, Poland
# 1,679:
2:13 pm PDT, Sep 27,Jade Makina, United Kingdom
I am aiming to dedicate my whole life to saving this species form going extinct if it's the last thing I do. Me and Lycaon pictus go a long way back, now I feel that it's my duty to make a difference. Once I finish university I'll be on my way to africa. Hopefully they'll hold up until then.
# 1,677:
8:27 pm PDT, Sep 16,Gemma Hollingsworth, Australia
# 1,676:
10:06 am PDT, Sep 16,Mandi TR, California
For more impact, add a personal comment here
# 1,675:
3:27 am PDT, Sep 7,Shirlane Ferrante, Florida
# 1,674:
1:39 pm PDT, Aug 11,Lyhann O'Shaughnessy, Mexico
# 1,673:
3:41 pm PDT, Aug 6,TERESA Arias, Mexico
# 1,672:
9:08 am PDT, Aug 5,Tara Gonzales, California
# 1,671:
12:30 am PDT, Aug 4,Merve Ucar, Turkey
# 1,670:
9:01 am PDT, Jul 30,Name not displayed, United Kingdom
# 1,669:
9:01 am PDT, Jul 30,Jade Thompson, United Kingdom
# 1,668:
3:16 pm PDT, Jul 29,Ana Carolina Abreu, Brazil
# 1,667:
10:31 am PDT, Jul 28,Gisel Rodriguez Vale, Puerto Rico
# 1,666:
6:00 am PDT, Jul 27,Elena Shevtshenko, Russian Federation
# 1,665:
6:42 am PDT, Jul 24,Claudia Ioannidou, Cyprus
# 1,664:
1:32 am PDT, Jul 21,Keith Bennett, United Kingdom
# 1,663:
3:47 pm PDT, Jul 19,Venessa Jeffery, Canada
# 1,662:
7:24 am PDT, Jul 19,LORENZ SOPHIA, Belgium
LORENZ
# 1,661:
10:01 am PDT, Jul 14,Tracey Gliddon, United Kingdom
# 1,660:
3:31 pm PDT, Jul 10,Monica Salazar, Puerto Rico
# 1,659:
5:33 am PDT, Jul 10,Martial Mouqueron, France
# 1,658:
1:46 pm PDT, Jul 9,Antonini Denise, France
# 1,657:
12:28 pm PDT, Jul 8,Karine Ferreira Strazisar, Portugal
# 1,656:
7:48 am PDT, Jul 8,Ira Gayll Zamudio, Philippines
# 1,655:
1:40 am PDT, Jul 6,Caleb Burkee, Arizona
# 1,654:
11:04 pm PDT, Jul 5,Angelidi Aspasia, Greece
# 1,653:
2:43 am PDT, Jul 5,Panayote Dimitras, Greece
# 1,652:
12:24 am PDT, Jul 5,Diane Van Weelie, Netherlands
Please place the African wild dog CITES as soon as possible! Educate your people that the wild dogs are something to be treasured not destroyed. Let the African wild dogs become a force of positive income for the people by advocating eco-tourism.
# 1,651:
11:40 pm PDT, Jul 4,Melisa Frank, South Africa
it is truelly disgusting that there is such a no care attitude from the authoritys. its time that people with a heart and concisous step in there places and do what must be done to help all animals in this world
