At its lowest point, fewer than 200 hangul survived on earth. All of them in one national park on the outskirts of Srinagar. The hangul is India’s most endangered deer, the state animal of Jammu and Kashmir, and the only survivor of a subspecies of red deer that once ranged across the length of the western Himalayas. It is, very slowly, coming back.
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One of India’s most prominent wildlife conservation organisations has been formally barred from all future work with the Jammu and Kashmir Wildlife Department. IWN has WTI’s response.