The efforts to re-establish the Chinese water deer population in Shanghai, China

  • Min Chen
  • , Chaofei Liu
  • , Xin He
  • , Enle Pei
  • , Xiao Yuan
  • , Endi Zhang*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Chinese water deer (Hydropotes inermis) was endangered in China and vanished from Shanghai early in the 20th century. The deer was reintroduced from 2006 onward, so as to re-establish a wild population in Shanghai. We obtained the deer from the breeding stock and released them. The deer numbers increased from 21 in 2007 to 299 in 2013. There has been a total area of 30.62 km2 of free-range deer release from 2010 and this will be enlarged in the future.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)941-945
Number of pages5
JournalAnimal Production Science
Volume56
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - 2016

Keywords

  • Hydropotes inermis

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