Regarding population status, how does the trend in the native Asian habitat contrast with the established UK population?
Answer
Declining and poorly quantified versus abundant and stable/increasing
The conservation reality for the Chinese water deer presents a sharp dichotomy based on geography. In its native range encompassing China and Korea, the species faces significant conservation challenges, resulting in a general population trend of decline, which is made worse by the difficulty researchers have in obtaining reliable counts. In contrast, particularly within the United Kingdom, the introduced population is considered abundant, stable, or even increasing, supported by the tens of thousands implied by annual harvest statistics.
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