Nobody knows how and why The Bandhavgarh Gaur disappeared from the park in early 1996. The world had virtually forgotten The Bandhavgarh Gaur by 2011, when the Forest Department of Madhya Pradesh decided to recreate The Bandhavgarh Gaur population by translocation of 50 animals from Kanha National Park. It was a bold and unprecedented decision as India had neither the culture nor the capacity to bring back vanished populations, until then. This film documents the drama of despair and excitement, of death, near-deaths, and of ultimate success in conservation, as a lost species makes a full recovery to start breeding and reoccupying its ancestral habitat. The new population reached 75 by 2014, despite regular predation by tigers, and seems to be beyond extinction in the foreseeable future. Thanks to this daring endeavor, India can now dream of rehabilitating many other struggling or extinct ungulate populations, in well preserved habitats.
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