Copyright 2007-2023 Gumtree IP Aus Holding Ltd. All Rights Reserved. The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. Now extinct in several of its countries of origin, the biggestandpurest herd of this species of cattle runs wild in Australia's top end. Given low populations and fragmentation of habitat, Gardner says the banteng is also facing a reduction of gene flow between populations, (probable) inbreeding, hybridization with domestic cattle and disease transmission with domestic livestock. With the number of threats extinction may appear inevitable, but the situation is not yet hopeless. Size. Hopefully, the data will aid other banteng-range countries in developing additional plan to save the rainforest cattle. //