Explanation:

Hangul once had good population in the Valley but has become a critically endangered species with sightings mostly reported in the Srinagar’s Dachigam National Park.

The results of population monitoring exercise conducted in April this year show a marginal increase in population from 2019 estimates - 237 in 2019 to 261 in 2021.

The last viable population of Hangul (cervus hanglu hanglu) in the Indian sub-continent exists only in the protected Dachigam National Park.

Dachigam National Park is a vast mountainous 141 sq km sanctuary on the outskirts of Srinagar, where Hangul grazed in hordes before the start of militancy in 1989.

Lately, there have been a few sightings in connected areas outside the park in south Kashmir but their number is believed to be negligible.