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Battling to save the Ethiopian wolf – Africa’s rarest carnivore: Claudio Sillero writes in The Conservation

WildCRU’s Professor Claudio Sillero has written in The Conversation website on the battle to save the Ethiopian Wolf, Africa’s rarest carnivore.

“In the last three years, populations in the Bale Mountains have endured back-to-back rabies and distemper outbreaks. Smaller populations are at even greater risk. At the end of last year disease decimated the smallest wolf population in Wollo, now feared on the brink of extinction.

The other great threat to the wolves is Ethiopia’s a changing landscape due to farming. Expanding populations and the need for arable land bring about an incessant pressure on natural habitats.”

You can read the full article on The Conservation here: http://theconversation.com/battling-to-save-the-ethiopian-wolf-africas-rarest-carnivore-76328