Afghanistan: Rare Bactrian Deer Survives Years of Turmoil in Afghanistan

Jul 6, 2016 | Janet Lathrop, University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Forty years of unrest in Afghanistan left wildlife ecologists uncertain whether one of the region’s rare sub-species of red deer, the Bactrian deer (Cervus elaphus bactrianus), had survived in the country. But recently, for the first time since the 1970s, a survey team led by Wildlife Conservation Society ecologist Zulmai Moheb, with colleagues in Afghanistan, confirms that a small population exists. They say the animals urgently need conservation.