Taxon name
Axis porcinus
(Zimmermann, 1780)
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National Red List Database
Taxonomic information
Scientific name
Axis porcinus
(Zimmermann, 1780)
Assessed taxon level
Species
Higher level taxonomic groupings
Vertebrates
Mammals
Species authority
(Zimmermann, 1780)
Location and scope
Specific locality or subnational name or regional name
Bangladesh
Scope (of the Assessment)
National
Countries included within the scope of the assessment
Does the assessment cover a marine EEZ area(s)?
Not_assigned
Conservation Status
Assessed as
Critically Endangered
Criteria system used
IUCN
(see Assessment details)
Assessment rationale/justification
Earlier it was considered as an extinct species in Bangladesh (IUCN Bangladesh 2000). In the recent past, five individuals have been re-discovered from Chittagong Hill Tracts when some indigenous hill-dwelling people took a few fawn for raising at home with a view to slaughtering these when reached adulthood. On the basis of these scanty report and earlier predictions, the species is categorized as Critically Endangered.
Assessment details
Assessors/contributors/reviewers listed
Md. Kamrul Hasan
Criteria system used
IUCN
Reference for methods given
IUCN (2012) IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria: Version 3.1. Second edition. Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK: IUCN. iv + 32pp; IUCN (2012) Guidelines for Application of IUCN Red List Criteria at Regional and National Levels: Version 4.0. Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK: IUCN. iii + 41pp.
URL (link) of redlist assessment or publication
http://iucnredlistbd.org/
Further information
Endemism (according to assessment)
Taxon distribution as listed in assessment
Native to Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, India, Nepal and Pakistan (Timmins et al. 2012). The Hog Deer was considered as an extinct species in Bangladesh (IUCN Bangladesh 2000). It has been disappeared from the Sundarbans (Salter 1984) and has not been reported from the Sylhet District, in the northeast, since the 1970s (Khan 2004). After a long period with no records, an animal was trapped by local people in 2002 (Khan 2004). Further surveys suggested that a few Hog Deer remained in the Chitagong Hill Tracts of the southeast (Khan 2004, Khan 2015). Recently five individuals have been collected from Chittagong Hill Tracts and kept in Bangabandhu Safari Park, Dulahazara.
Is there a map available in assessment?
Yes, in the publication/on website
Habitat and systems
Ecological system type
Habitat
Habitat details as listed in assessment
Presently, it inhabits denuded mixed evergreen forest, especially grass-reed field dominated savanna country that has taken over areas which became barren due to removal of indigenous forests in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh. Where undisturbed, Hog Deer tends to be crepuscular, with significant daytime activity and some at night, especially in the hot and wet seasons (Dhungel and O'Gara 1991). In some areas it seems to have become more nocturnal and solitary, presumably through hunting pressure. The main social group is a female and fawn (Timmins et al. 2012).
History
Extinct in Bangladesh (IUCN Bangladesh 2000)
Publication
IUCN Bangladesh. 2015. Red List of Bangladesh Volume 2: Mammals. IUCN, International Union for Conservation of Nature, Bangladesh Country Office, Dhaka, Bangladesh, pp. xvi+232
