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The decline of the wild water buffalo in north-east India

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2009

Anwaruddin Choudhury
Anwaruddin Choudhury
Affiliation:
Near Gate No. 1 of Nehru Stadium, Islampur Road, Guwahati 781 007, Assam, India
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Abstract

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The Asiatic wild buffalo Bubalus bubalis was widely distributed in the river systems of south and South East Asia, but habitat destruction, hunting and interbreeding with domestic water buffalo have resulted in only relict wild populations remaining. Unless protection measures are intensified, the species could disappear in India within a few decades.

Type
Short Communications
Information
Oryx , Volume 28 , Issue 1 , January 1994 , pp. 70 - 73
Copyright
Copyright © Fauna and Flora International 1994

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