Captive Bactrian deer at The Wilds, a conservation center in Cumberland, Ohio. Until recently, the deer was feared locally extinct in Afghanistan. Ted Jackson / Flickr It had been more than 40 ...

The Bactrian deer, also called the Bukhara, is a rare sub-species of red deer, native to central Asia. They are typically found in riparian habitats- areas where trees, shrubs and grasses grow ...

Forty years of unrest in Afghanistan left wildlife ecologists uncertain whether one of its rare sub-species of red deer, the Bactrian deer, had survived in the country. But recently, for the first ...

The Bactrian deer is also native to the surrounding areas of Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. "The presence of the Bactrian deer is very important for Afghanistan," he said, ...