The Department of Environment (DOE) has prepared two plans to restore the endangered Persian fallow deer, the deputy head of the DOE has said. We are trying to increase the deer population at the breeding sites and continue to search for suitable habitats for the species, ISNA quoted Hassan Akbari as saying on Monday. The population of Persian ...

Most of the deer which were displaced from a breeding site in Khuzestan Province following heavy flooding last month are believed to be missing but healthy. Khuzestan was one of the nine provinces that were hit by severe flash floods in April which left a trail of destruction and caused significant damage to infrastructure. The flooding harmed a ...

Population of the Persian fallow deer is expected to gradually grow following the expansion of its territory in Fars Provinces Miankotal enclosure. The deer was previously confined to a 50-hectare area in Miankotal, which was inappropriate due to sparse vegetation and incompatible topography and microclimate. The scarce fallow deer population ...

The overpopulation of the Persian fallow deer in the western Ilam Province has forced officials to transfer some to other provinces, IRNA quoted director general of provincial Department of Environment (DoE) Mazyar Soleyman-Nejad as saying. Ilam is unable to sustain the current population of the Persian fallow deer, he said. According to the official,...