In 1995 the George Adamson Wildlife Preservation Trusts (USA and UK), the African Wild Dog Foundation (Netherlands) and the Wildlife Preservation Trust Fund (Tanzania), at the invitation of the Tanzanian Government. initiated an African Wild Dog captive-breeding programme in the Mkomazi Game Reserve, Tanzania. The ultimate goal of this breeding programme is to re-establish viable populations of African Wild Dogs in protected areas in which the species was formerly resident, using captive bred animals of similar genetic stock.