The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is going to declare the Kashmiri Red Stag as a Critically Endangered species. 
●    The critically endangered status to the Kashmiri Red Stag will help it to get more protection and enhance the conservation efforts to increase its rapidly declining population. 
●    The Kashmir Stag or Hangul is a subspecies of elk native to India. 
●    Earlier it was believed that it is a subspecies of red deer. 
●    It is found in dense riverine forests in the high valleys and mountains of Kashmir Valley and northern Chamba district of Himachal Pradesh. 
●    As per Bombay Natural History Society nearly 3000 to 5000 Hanguls existed around the 1940s.
●    It has been listed under Schedule-I of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972 and J&K Wildlife Act, 1978. 
●    Reasons for decline in population: (i) habitat destruction, (ii) over-grazing by domestic livestock, and (iii) poaching.

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