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Species in focus Pygmy Hog Adult Male | Photo: Parag Deka.

Pygmy Hog

Programme- Saving Pygmy Hog from Extinction

Text & Photos: Parag Jyoti Deka , Dhritiman Das, Goutam Narayan
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1 Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust - Pygmy Hog Conservation
Programme (PHCP)
2 Aaranyak - Threatened Species Recovery Programme (TSRP)
3 EcoSystems-India - Rare & Endangered Species Conservation Unit
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The Conservation Programme

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The pygmy hog is the world’s smallest and rarest wild
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pig and is most threatened by extinction. It belongs to
a unique genus that has no close relative. The species
was originally found in the narrow belt of tall, alluvial
grassland plains that runs across the southern edge of
the Himalayas in the Indian subcontinent. However, by
1993 it was reduced to a single population found only
Pygmy Hog mother and new born | Photo: Parag Deka.
in a few pockets of the Manas National
in a few pockets of the Manas National Park (MNP).
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