The Chhattisgarh  government has sought the help of Assam's wild buffaloes to raise their own stockas it does not have female buffaloes left and because of which it is facing extinction in the state.

Assam has 3500 wild buffaloes and 2-3 female buffaloes willbe translocated so that Chattigarh's wild buffaloes can be saved fromextinction.

Earlier there was only one female wild buffalo with 12 othermale buffalo in the Udantika forest of Chattisgarh. The buffalos were found inthe Indiravati Tiger Reserve in Maharashtra .

The whole exercise was conducted  through the Wild Life Trust of India, whomonitor health and population of animals across India and try to inter translocationso that a healthy population remain all over India.