According to Cambodian media on May 3, at least 70 endangered guinea deer in Cambodia are being monitored by scientists, and they live in grassland habitats in the Mekong Landscape Forest Area of Kratie Province.
On May 2, Cambodia's Ministry of Environmental Protection announced on its official Facebook that the exciting results were reported in a report last week. The researchers used automatic cameras and drones equipped with thermal imaging cameras to monitor and track the deer.
The research program is implemented by the Kratie Provincial Environmental Protection Agency in collaboration with the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) with the technical support and participation of BINCO biodiversity conservation experts.
The results of the study showed that there are many young and young guinea deer in the grassland habitat of the Mekong Landscape Forest area of Kratie Province, which indicates the reproductive indicators of such endangered animals.
Cambodia's guinea deer were considered extinct until a small herd was rediscovered in 2006 on the west bank of the Mekong River in Kratie province, but not in large numbers.
Also known as the Reed Deer, the guinea deer is medium in size, but relatively stout, with shorter limbs, shorter, shorter, shorter, with blunt and lower hips, and a pig-like posture, hence the name. Male guinea deer have slender three-pointed horns and a pale brown body, and live in wetlands along the banks of the river. Day and night, good at crossing the bushes and jumping obstacles. More solo activities, temporarily integrating small groups during the mating period. He prefers to eat young grass that regenerates after burning, but also eats reed leaves and other aquatic plants, and occasionally steals crops such as soybeans, corn seedlings and melons. Wild dolphin deer are found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, India, Nepal and Pakistan.