Threatened deer of the world: Conservation status

IUCN is launching a programme for the study and management of Cervidae threatened with extinction throughout their world range. The objectives are to improve the status of the deer by more effective management, and to stimulate and provide experience in sustained scientific and governmental involvement in threatened taxa. This paper reviews and analyses the conservation status of the threatened deer. It provides the basis for a second paper which it is hoped to publish shortly and which will described a research programme that has been designed to provide data to guide conservation practices.