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How Key Deer
Became Endangered
Key deer are endangered for a number of reasons.
While the status of the Key deer is still precarious, at least it is more secure than in the 1940s when only an estimated 50 animals remained.
Hunting and some habitat destruction had eliminated the rest. The establishment of the National Key Deer Refuge in 1957, coupled with strong law enforcement, saved the herd from extinction.
Today, traffic accidents account for about 70 percent of the Key deer fatalities each year. It's a situation that isn't likely to improve.
U.S. 1, the main thoroughfare through the Keys, is one of the roads that bisects the refuge.
About half the fatalities happen along this roadway despite a posted speed limit that is lower than on any other island.
These collisions are just as apt to take place during the day as at night. Obviously, this is one instance where sharing the land isn't working at all well.
The problem is that only 40 percent of Big Pine Key is protected habitat. On a map, the island is revealed as a checkerboard of houses and businesses
The current population of this tiny subspecies of the white tailed deer is around 800.
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∙ 9y ago
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∙ 10y agoSome are endangered, like the black musk deer and Key deer. But other species are still quite numerous, especially the white tailed deer. The Key deer is a small race of the white tailed deer.
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∙ 15y agoThe Key Deer is indeed indangered due to they are mainly hit by humans and are hunted by poachers.
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∙ 11y agoThey kill the males for there horns and so the females can't have babys so when they dye, then they'll grow they ceep going and they'll dye and then they became endangered and soon extinct!!
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