TR_2005_022_003765_D2x | Theo Ribeiro

A Marsh Deer (Blastocerus dichotomus), stares at the camera while partially covered buy the foliage in Pantanal. Poconé, Mato Grosso, Brazil, Monday, Oct. 31, 2005...The Marsh Deer is is the largest deer species native from South America. It lengths as long as 2 meters and reaches heights of 1.2 meters at the rump. They are listed as a vulnerable specie, according to the CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora). Formerly found through all the tropical South America, nowadays the Marsh Deer are reduced to small isolated populations at marshes and lagoon zones in the basins of the rivers Paraná and Paraguay, as well as in the Amazon region of Peru, where they are protected in the Bahuaja-Sonehe National Park. The destruction of the Marsh Deer habitat present nowadays the major threat to the species. The dam at Yacyretá for example, altered an area in which several hundred specimens lived and the draining of marshes for farmland and cattle breeding in other places threatens hundreds of hectares every year both in Argentina and Brazil. The natural predators of the Marsh Deer, the Jaguars, locally called onça-pintada or yaguaraté, (Panthera onca) and the Puma (Puma concolor), have almost completely disappeared from their habitat and the former major threat, poaching for their antlers, is now mostly under control the probably being mostly circumscribed now to their loss of habitat. The Marsh Deer live only in marsh areas, pantanals and chacos, usually with the water levels that reach half a meter deep. They are swift swimmers and marshes high vegetation density protect them from predators and provide them food.

Image Code:		TR_2005_022_003765_D2x

Photographer:		Theo Ribeiro

Image URL:		http://archive.theoribeiro.com/c/theoribeiro/image/I0000_C3LjRcloK4

Image Dimensions:		4288x2848 pixels

Model Release:		No

Special Instructions:		None

Location:		Poconé Mato Grosso Brazil

Caption:		A Marsh Deer (Blastocerus dichotomus), stares at the camera while partially covered buy the foliage in Pantanal. Poconé, Mato Grosso, Brazil, Monday, Oct. 31, 2005...The Marsh Deer is is the largest deer species native from South America. It lengths as long as 2 meters and reaches heights of 1.2 meters at the rump. They are listed as a vulnerable specie, according to the CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora). Formerly found through all... more » A Marsh Deer (Blastocerus dichotomus), stares at the camera while partially covered buy the foliage in Pantanal. Poconé, Mato Grosso, Brazil, Monday, Oct. 31, 2005...The Marsh Deer is is the largest deer species native from South America. It lengths as long as 2 meters and reaches heights of 1.2 meters at the rump. They are listed as a vulnerable specie, according to the CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora). Formerly found through all the tropical South America, nowadays the Marsh Deer are reduced to small isolated populations at marshes and lagoon zones in the basins of the rivers Paraná and Paraguay, as well as in the Amazon region of Peru, where they are protected in the Bahuaja-Sonehe National Park. The destruction of the Marsh Deer habitat present nowadays the major threat to the species. The dam at Yacyretá for example, altered an area in which several hundred specimens lived and the draining of marshes for farmland and cattle breeding in other places threatens hundreds of hectares every year both in Argentina and Brazil. The natural predators of the Marsh Deer, the Jaguars, locally called onça-pintada or yaguaraté, (Panthera onca) and the Puma (Puma concolor), have almost completely disappeared from their habitat and the former major threat, poaching for their antlers, is now mostly under control the probably being mostly circumscribed now to their loss of habitat. The Marsh Deer live only in marsh areas, pantanals and chacos, usually with the water levels that reach half a meter deep. They are swift swimmers and marshes high vegetation density protect them from predators and provide them food. « less

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