In what was called the first study to assess the genetic impact on captive-bred wild animals in India, scientists have found that pygmy hogs, the endangered and smallest pig species in the wild maintained genetic diversity even after long-term captive breeding in Assam. Conservationists in Assam have done captive breeding of nearly 500 pygmy hogs since 1996 and have so far
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Forest officers look on during the release into the wild of four captive-bred pygmy hogs, an endangered species and the world’s rarest and smallest wild pigs, at Manas National Park. AFP
Conservationists release world’s smallest hog into the wild
Mon, 28 June 2021
A dozen of the world’s smallest pigs have been released into the wild in northeastern India as part of a conservation programme to boost the population of a species once thought to have become extinct.
The pygmy hog, which has the scientific name porcula salvania, lives in tall, wet grasslands and was once found along plains on the Himalayan foothills in India, Nepal and Bhutan.