The Threats that Face the Ethiopian Wolf

Threats are both directly and indirectly human-induced, as the wolf's highland habitat, with its high annual rainfall and rich fertile soils, is ideal for agricultural activities. Its proximate threats include habitat loss and fragmentation because of subsistence agriculture, overgrazing, road construction, and livestock farming, diseases (primarily rabies and canine distemper), conflict with humans (poisoning, persecution, and road kills), and hybridization with dogs.