This session we will be focusing on painted dogs!
Dr Greg Rasmussen grew up in Zimbabwe where he developed a strong affinity for wildlife to the point of spending all his spare time in the laboratories of the Natural History Museum.
Following his time in the British merchant Navy, he returned to Africa and completed two more degrees to pursue a wildlife career.
In 1989 he started researching the endangered painted dog. He also started to engage with ranchers who were shooting the dogs and stopped the killing. He is one of the few conservationists to ever achieve this goal.
He founded Painted Dog Conservation in 2002 which grew to be model for conservation incorporating conservation education for children as well as community benefit and participation.
Greg is one of the few people to survive a plane crash where he was a day and a half with both legs and pelvis smashed in Hwange National park. His determination to continue to research painted dogs was one of the key things which kept him going.
In 2014, with another vision in mind, he founded Painted Dog Research Trust. The project combines the continuation of his lifetime research of painted dogs, alongside the birth of a field-based conservation ecology centre to. His mission is to mentor young Zimbabwean and international university students.
Dr Greg is a research associate and part time lecturer at the University of Zimbabwe; he is also affiliated with the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit at Oxford University in the UK where he completed his PhD. He has a diverse range of research interests with his most recent interests being trans-boundary conservation.
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