EASTERN SWAMP DEER

🔆EASTERN SWAMP DEER 

✅The population of the vulnerable eastern swamp deer, extinct elsewhere in South Asia, has dipped in the Kaziranga National Park. 

 

✅The barasingha, also called swamp deer, is a deer species distributed in the Indian subcontinent. 

✅It differs from all other Indian deer species in that the antlers carry more than three tines. 

✅ Threats: Poaching for antlers and meat habitat  

loss. 

✅ Barasingha is the state animal of the Indian states of MP & UP

 

✅3 subspecies of swamp deer are 

🔸 Western swamp deer is adapted to the flooded tall grassland habitat in the Indo-Gangetic plain & are found in the Sukla Phanta Wildlife Reserve of Nepal. 

🔸 Southern swamp deer has hard hooves and is adapted to hard ground in open sal forest with a grass understorey survives only in the Kanha National Park.

🔸 Eastern swamp deer is only found in Assam, endemic to Assam.

 

▪️Protection Status 

✅IUCN Red list: Vulnerable 

✅CITES: Appendix I

✅Wildlife Protection Act of 1972: Schedule I