The Assam government lauded a captive breeding initiative that increased the wild pygmy hog population 32-fold over the past three decades.
The pygmy hog, the world's smallest wild suid, depends on dense alluvial grasslands whose degradation threatens its survival alongside other species.
Conservationists aim to increase the wild pygmy hog population to 300 by 2040 by restoring fragmented grasslands and buffer zones in Assam.