On arrival at Mfuwe International Airport a guide will meet you. The drive to Nkwali Camp is 1 hour through colourful local scenes of villages, agriculture as well as bush.

We are in game vehicles traveling to the Painted Hunting Dog Conservation Project.  Greg greets us.  He has survived many trials and tragedies over the fifteen years of protecting this endangered species.  Here they heal from snares, re-form into packs and are released back into the wild. Bushcamps of children from surrounding communities holiday here to learn about conservation, the characteristics and behaviors of this exciting animal species and they even see a wild dog kill from the one kilometer canopied walkway that leads from the Project center to their Bushcamp dwellings.  Their success stories include those of children who go home to tell their older brothers and parents not to set snares to kill their new Painted Hunting Dog friends.

In the days that follow Greg takes us tracking the painted Hunting Dogs in the wild and we learn: wild dogs are intuitive and relational by nature: intensely concerned with their young, their mate and their pack; inquiring, possessed of great endurance and strength, deeply intuitive, experienced in adapting to constantly changing circumstances, stalwart and brave