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Captive breeding of Toda buffalo
April 18 , 2025
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- Over the last three decades, the population of the Toda buffalo has declined by more than 90%.
- It is an indigenous species of water buffalo linked to the culture of the Toda tribals.
- Toda tribe is one of the very oldest Dravidian ethnic groups residing in the Upper Nilgiris plateau in Tamil Nadu.
- In a new initiative, the Sheep Breeding Research Station at Sandynallah in the Nilgiris has begun a captive breeding program to help the population re-establish itself in the hills.
- The buffalo population is ranged from 15,000 to 20,000 across the Nilgiris just a few decades ago.
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