Maned wolves safeguarded from drowning in Brazil

Image credit: Onçafari / Chiara Bortoloto

You are helping us work on a two-year monitoring project with Onçafari, our local partners in Brazil, to protect maned wolves from being swept up in factory farming water channels after falling in while trying to hydrate themselves. 

Thanks to your support, this vigorous monitoring will support the protection of maned wolf individuals in the south-western region of the state of Bahia, which is in the Cerrado biome.

This area is home to 5% of the planet’s animals – including jaguars, anteaters, rhea birds, tapirs and armadillos – and rare trees and plants.

You helped donate vital equipment such as radio collars, camera traps and a drone to ensure the safety of maned wolf Barão and his young family including his mate Savana and their two cubs. You’re also helping ensure the safety of other maned wolves Luzia, Buriti, Baru, and Caju as a part of this project.

The equipment you helped provide is essential in showing where and when the animals roam and to enable a faster response from Onçafari in emergencies.

You’re helping protect maned wolves from factory farming

Maned wolves are listed as ‘Near Threatened’ on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species and only 3% of their natural habitat is inside Brazil’s protected areas.

Almost 30% of the total Cerrado deforestation is linked to soy expansion for factory farming activities, which is destroying rain forests in Brazil and harming our planet’s wildlife. But with your help, the data that our partners will gather over the next two years could demonstrate the devastating consequences of soy and grain production on wildlife.