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Ethiopia: Celebrating the Ethiopian Wolf
The overall goal of the Ethiopian Wolf Conservation Program is the conservation of the Ethiopian wolf and its Afroalpine habitat while ensuring the social and economic well-being of local communities. Among the main threats to the rarest canid in the world are loss and fragmentation of its habitat, diseases (especially rabies transmitted by domestic dogs), and conflict with humans.
Eco-Sys has committed to establishing a dormitory in Dinsho, the last village in the wolf’s habitat in the Bale Mountains. It would accommodate kids coming from areas located within the park’s borders, enabling them to get an education and helping the encroachment problem there. With more educated kids, the medium- to long-term problems caused by new farms on wolf’s territory could be eliminated.
A longer term project is to establish a kindergarten. It would replace the small and inconvenient kindergarten in use right now and it will educate the kids at an early age about the concept of conservation. When it opens, it will be called the Little Wolf School. It will both help EWCP’s image and key role in the area and help secure a better future for those kids.
Here again, Eco-Sys wishes the kindergarten to be self-financing after a while. To reach this goal, Eco-Sys is going to create a cooperative with honey production and handicraft manufacturing as prime businesses. Later, forest coffee and donkey milk will be closely studied in order to bring new income to the cooperative.
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