African wild dogs make comeback at Mozambican wildlife park (News)

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In this undated photo supplied by Gorogosa Media, a pack of wild dogs make their way down a road in Mozambique.

In this undated photo supplied by Gorogosa Media, a pack of wild dogs make their way down a road in Mozambique.

Photo: AP

There are just 14 of them, far fewer than those that roamed Mozambique’s Gorongosa National Park before the nearly two-decade civil war that started in the 1970s. As up to a million people lost their lives to violence and famine, much of the park’s wildlife also was wiped out – including the wild dogs, an endangered species vulnerable to snares and disease.

Now they have been re-introduced to Gorongosa, carnivores unleashed on plant eaters as part of an intricate conservation project that aims to restore a diverse ecosystem at the southern end of Africa’s Great Rift Valley.

AP

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