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A male Key Deer on No Name Key in the lower Keys A female Key deer on Big Pine Key A juvenile Key deer is called a fawn. Due to proximity, most Key deer have lost their fear of humans. This, besides habitat loss, is the main reason why they have become endangered.
But a Keys environmental group that advocates the Key deer — a species of small white-tail deer unique to the Lower Keys and protected under the U.S. Endangered Species Act — says there is ...
Years ago, they were over-hunted, and habitat destruction led to the point that only an estimated 50 deer survived by the 1940s; now there are 800-1,000. NANCE: Key Deer population is now stable ...
The refuge is home to the endangered Key deer, a subspecies of the white-tailed deer that is endemic to the Florida Keys and has a current population of around 800 animals. 21 other threatened and endangered species of plants and animals are also found on the refuge.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plans would weaken protections for Florida panther, Key deer, two embattled species facing an escalating loss of habitat.
The Florida Key deer, O. v. clavium, and the Columbian white-tailed deer, O. v. leucurus, are both listed as endangered under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. In the United States, the Virginia white-tail, O. v. virginianus, is among the most widespread subspecies.
It’s unclear how long the deer had been stuck.
A smaller subspecies, the Key deer, lives only in the Keys and numbers around 800 animals. [137] Sambar deer were introduced in 1908 as alternative game for hunters on Saint Vincent Island. The population is between 700 and 1,000; 130 hunters are licensed per year, and each can kill up to two deer. [ 138 ]