Maned wolves in Brazil protected from drowning
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Your support is making a world of difference in protecting maned wolves like Barão and his mate Savana from drowning in irrigation ditches set up by the cruel factory farming industry. Thank you for ensuring they’re safe and sound.
Image credit: Isabela Meniz
Thanks to you, we’re working on a two-year monitoring project with Onçafari, our local partners in Brazil, to protect ‘Near Threatened’ maned wolves from losing their lives in factory farming water channels. These precious wolves are often swept up in these channels after falling in while trying to hydrate themselves.
This vigorous monitoring will now support the protection of maned wolf individuals in the south-western region of the state of Bahia and in the Cerrado biome.
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.
Together, we can expose the scale of the negative impacts caused by the expansion of cruel factory farming activities in Brazil.
Thank you for protecting maned wolves and other wild animals from factory farming.
Environmental impact
Intensive animal agriculture causes billions of animals to suffer annually, and also causes significant harm to the environment.
Factory farming
We work tirelessly to ensure farmed animals live good lives by transforming the global food system and attitudes towards farm animal welfare.