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Bison Population in Jharkhand
January 29 , 2025
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- The Jharkhand Forest department has initiated a study to revive the dwindling population of Bison, popularly known as Gaur, at Palamu Tiger Reserve.
- Bison has already gone extinct from across Jharkhand, excluding the PTR where merely 50-70 bison are surviving
- Domestic cattle, numbering over 1.5 lakh, occupy the bison's habitat.
- Bison is the tallest species of wild cattle found in India and largest extant bovine.
- Approximately 85% of the global population is present in India.
- They are Vulnerable in IUCN Red List.
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