Gorongosa National Park is a 4,000 km2 protected area located at the southern end of Africa’s Great Rift Valley in Mozambique. Historically, on account of its rich soils and abundant water, it had one of the highest densities of large wildlife on the continent. However, the Mozambican Civil War that lasted for 16 years resulted in the loss of 85 to 90% of the Park’s large wildlife. In 2004, the Carr Foundation initiated the Gorongosa Restoration Project and signed a long-term co-management agreement with the Government of Mozambique to protect and restore the Park. Since then, large herbivore populations have largely rebounded from remnant populations. Less than 500 ungulates were introduced, but these played an outsized role in the recovery of especially African buffalo and blue wildebeest. Similarly, the lion population recovered through improved protection, but the re-introduction of African wild dogs, leopards and spotted hyena’s was essential to their recovery as these species had been extirpated. In 2018, the first rehabilitation project in Mozambique for the Temminck's pangolin was established. Since then more than 100 individuals have been rescued from the illegal wildlife trade and have been rewilded.