A team from Kanha Tiger Reserve has arrived in Kaziranga National Park to bring wild buffaloes to Madhya Pradesh under an animal exchange programme.
An operation has been launched in Kaziranga National Park to capture the wild buffaloes. A total of 50 wild buffaloes are to be brought to Kanha from Assam in a phased manner in over three years.
This is the first operation to catch the wild buffaloes. The wild buffalo project is a result of discussions between Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav and his Assam counterpart Himanta Biswa Sarma.
The Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve has recently cleared all formalities to translocate about 50 wild Asiatic water buffaloes from the park to the Kanha Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh.
In January, Chief Minister Mohan Yadav visited Assam and inked an interstate agreement for the exchange of wild animals.
In lieu of the buffaloes, the MP government is planning to give gharials to Assam. The state is also planning to get a pair of rhinoceroses and three king cobras from Assam in the future.
