The efforts to re-establish the Chinese water deer population in Shanghai, China
Min Chen A B , Chaofei Liu A B , Xin He A B , Enle Pei C , Xiao Yuan C and Endi Zhang A D
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A School of Life Sciences, East China Normal University, China.
B Shanghai Key Lab for Urban Ecological Processes and Eco-Restoration (SHUES), East China Normal University, China.
C Department of Wildlife Protection Administration, Shanghai, China.
D Corresponding author. Email: ezhang@mail.ecnu.edu.cn
Animal Production Science 56(6) 941-945 https://doi.org/10.1071/AN14910
Submitted: 28 October 2014 Accepted: 22 September 2015 Published: 8 March 2016
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.
Additional keyword: Hydropotes inermis.
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