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Elephants
Victims of an unprecedented large-scale human-elephant conflict incident
7 min read
31 Jan 2024
Fundraising
Providing a Brighter Future for Tigers
6 min read
25 Jan 2024
Pangolins
Sparking Change: Flipping the switch on electric fences to save pangolins.
30 Nov 2023
Anti-Poaching
Against All Odds: The Scale of Extinction
21 Nov 2023
General
Our Christmas Gift Guide 2023
9 min read
15 Nov 2023
Snares: The Hidden Killers
11 min read
3 Nov 2023
Snow Leopards
World Snow Leopard Day 2023
8 min read
24 Oct 2023
Living with Wildlife: Competing for Survival
5 min read
13 Oct 2023
Mbila and Zongo – going back to where they belong!
25 Sep 2023
Education
World Rhino Day: Education For Co-Existence
22 Sep 2023
In an unprecedented large-scale human-elephant conflict incident on the Zambia-Malawi border, three tiny young elephant calves were separated from their mothers in the commotion. The community have not been used to elephant crop raiding for some years but unfortunately this changed late in the night of the 15th January. A herd of 50+ elephants...
Tiger Appeal Update Last summer, thanks to generous donations from our loyal supporters, David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation (DSWF) raised almost £23,000 in our appeal ‘The Dark Side of the Illegal Tiger Trade’ which focused on highlighting the staggering number of tiger lives lost each year to meet the demand for this barbaric trade. The funds...
Pangolins are one of our core species here at David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation (DSWF). Despite being one of the most gentle, unassuming, and harmless animals on the planet (unless you’re a termite), their survival is threatened on several fronts. Already the most trafficked mammal in the world, they also face barriers and challenges from habitat...
Pangolins are one of our star species here at David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation (DSWF). Unfortunately, they are in our spotlight for all the wrong reasons. Pangolins have the unenviable reputation as the most trafficked mammal (and potentially animal) in the world. In the last decade, it is estimated over one million pangolins have been trafficked...
We know you’re probably already being inundated with Christmas gift guides from every brand under the sun. So, apologies in advance, as this is just that. But it does come with some feel-good factors already built in. As every gift on this list will not just be adored by those receiving them but will also...
*WARNING – THIS BLOG CONTAINS IMAGES SOME MAY FIND DISTRESSING* It’s often said that the simplest solutions work best. Unfortunately, this is very much the case for one of the deadliest killers of wildlife on the planet – snares. When we think of the most direct threats to endangered species, our minds often leap to...
Preventing the Ghost of the Mountain from Disappearing Altogether Today is World Snow Leopard Day – a celebration of this vulnerable and enigmatic big cat, and one of our star species here at DSWF. Snow leopards are powerful apex predators in their domain but are also an early indicator of the impact of climate disruption....
In April, thanks to generous donations from our loyal supporters, David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation (DSWF) raised over £40,000 in our Big Give Green Match Fund appeal ‘Living with Wildlife: Competing for Survival’. These funds have already been making a significant difference to the lives of both people and animals across Africa and Asia working to...
Just when the rest of the world was unable to catch a flight due to the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, two young elephants took to the air and flew across Zambia when they were rescued due to a human-elephant conflict (follow this link to the double rescue’ film series). Three years later, after intensive...
Today, we’re celebrating World Rhino Day and putting a spotlight on the work of our project partners in Assam, northern India. Our front-line conservation partners extensively protect three National Parks and one Wildlife Sanctuary, that collectively are home to around 2,885 greater one horned rhino – out of a global population of less than 4,000. These...