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Wild Dogs of the Serengeti Return Home

Wild dogs have been brought back to Tanzania’s Serengeti National Park more than two decades after the animals disappeared due to persecution, disease and competition with other predators.

The Tanzania Daily News reports the Serengeti Wild Dog Conservation project is working with the Frankfurt Zoological Society in releasing the once-native canines into the park.

The project’s aim is to set free six batches of 10 dogs, with the possibility of releasing one more batch in the future.

The wild dogs were captured outside the park and kept in a special sanctuary before being set free.

The Serengeti National Park attracts thousands of tourists from different parts of the world thus making it one of the country's major sources of foreign currency for national development.