Trail Cams Leave Park Officials Elated As Rare Gaur Seen Thriving In Forest–World’s Largest Bovine

Trail Cams Leave Park Officials Elated As Rare Gaur Seen Thriving In Forest–World’s Largest Bovine

Trail Cams Leave Park Officials Elated As Rare Gaur Seen Thriving In Forest–World’s Largest Bovine Trail cam footage -Released by Thailand Department of National Parks Wildlife and Plant Conservation Thai wildlife officials are heartened by the site of the world’s largest bovine leading her calves down a forest trail. The camera trap footage shows that conservation is working: that gaur are reproducing in numbers in the country’s Huai Kha Khaeng Forest, and that there’s enough food and habitat to facilitate that. The gaur was once widely distributed across south and southeast Asia, but is today seriously fragmented. Nepal, Bhutan, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Laos, and Thailand all have small populations nestled in evergreen hills, and are generally considered vulnerable. The beast remains widely dispersed and in healthy numbers in parts of India, but faraway Thailand boasts a lot less space. Nevertheless, the UNESCO-listed Huai Kha Khaeng spans 1.4 million acres, and decades of conservat…