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Wild Dog Maps
The CCI heads the Range Wide Conservation Planning (RWCP) process for both Cheetah and African Wild Dogs. Part of this is to hold and regularly update a global records database for both species, which, in addition to expert and participatory input, is used to develop current range maps for both species. Please feel free to use these maps – with appropriate credit given to CCI – and contact us for any questions.
Resident Range: Land where wild cheetah or wild dogs are known to still be resident.
Resident Fenced: Areas <1,000km2 which are well fenced – currently applicable only in South Africa.
Transient Range: Habitat used intermittently by cheetah or wild dogs, but where the species are known not to be resident and which does not connect to other resident ranges.
Possible Resident Range: Land where wild cheetah or wild dogs may still be resident, but where residency has not been confirmed in the last 10 years.
Connecting Range: Land where cheetah or wild dogs are not thought to be resident, but which dispersing animals may use to move between occupied areas, or to recolonise extirpated range. Such connections might take the form of ‘corridors’ of continuous habitat or ‘stepping stones’ of habitat fragments.
Recoverable Range: Land where habitat and prey remain over sufficiently large areas that either natural or assisted recovery of cheetah or wild dogs might be possible within the next 10 years if reasonable conservation action were to be taken.
Swamp Range: An area of low-lying, uncultivated ground where water collects and which is unable to support populations of cheetah or wild dogs.
Extirpated Range: Land where the species has been extirpated, and where habitat is so heavily modified or fragmented as to be uninhabitable by resident cheetah for the foreseeable future.
Unknown Range: Land where the species’ status is currently unknown and cannot be inferred using knowledge of the local status of habitat and prey.
Wild Dog Range Shapefiles
Coming soon for download
