Hungarian: Indigenous buffalo species are endangered

The buffalo population in northern Australia has grown so much that experts say it is already endangering native species. According to a survey conducted by the Natural Resources Management Authority of the region (TNRM), the number of wild buffalo in the Northern Area has increased by 26,000, or 17 percent, in the last 12 months, bringing the population to 187,000. More and more landowners are choosing not to kill wild buffaloes, but rather try to reap business benefits from them, hoping for a recovery in buffalo meat exports. Agricultural scientist Susanne Casanova, an official at the TNRM project, highlighted that the buffalo herd has been growing for a long time and that it no longer seems possible to keep up with this, making the problem unmanageable. The population of wild buffaloes has been growing since 2014, when indigenous landowners began to keep the herd more because mass killing of animals by air cost them too much. This year, nine thousand buffaloes were exported ...