Srinagar: The State government on Saturday said that the population of Hangul stand at 182 species in Dachigam National farm.
“As per latest census conducted in March 2017, the number of Hangul in Dachigam landscape stands at 182 +/-39. 39 with an upper limit and lowest limit of 214 and 138,” Forest minister said in a written reply to a question by National Conference MLA, Mubarak Gul, in the Legislative Assembly.
The animal is the only surviving race of the Red Deer family of Europe in the sub-continent. Some 5,000 of the animals roamed the region in the late 1940s but due to varied reasons, it is battling survival in its last bastion.
Till 1989, the poaching remained the main reason for the decline in Hangul population and brought down the number of animal to 900. As per the last (2015) survey, the Hangul population was 186, declining from 218 as 2011 census of the animal.
