Год выпуска: 2012 Автор: Ashok Subedi Издательство: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 52 ISBN: 9783659123276
Описание
The Himalayan musk deer (Moschus chrysogaster) is an endangered species under IUCN categories and mentioned in the appendix I of the CITES. This species occurs at least in 13 countries of south Asia, east Asia, southeast Asia and eastern Russia including Nepal. Musk deer is patchily distributed in the mountainous region of Nepal. It is greatly suffering from poaching for its musk pod. The book contains the detail description about the status, distribution, habitat ecology and major conservation issues of the Himalayan musk deer based on the research in Manaslu conservation area of western Nepal. Besides these the book will provide the valuable information about the vegetation composition of musk deer habitat including best conservation recommendation. Therefore the book is highly valuable for the wildlife scientists and academicians across the globe.
