Japan’s Nara city is famous for its sacred deer, protected for a millennium as “messengers of the gods” according to Shinto religious tradition, and today also a valuable tourism resource.In recent years, genetic analysis by Japanese researchers has found that Nara’s protected deer population has become genetically isolated over its history.
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Nara, a city in central Japan and an ancient national capital from 710 to 784 C.E., is today perhaps best known for its “sacred” deer. Whether sacred or ordinary, protected or not, the overabundance of deer is also creating conflict with the shrine’s surrounding community as the animals damage crops, forests and habitat.
Differences in the way people deal with Japanese sika deer in Nara city: Deer are a tourist resource in the protected areas and tourists feed them. But In the management area, deer are seen as pests and are prevented from feeding on crops by fences and other means. Images courtesy of Harumi Torii via, they reported that while only deer of the protected lineage were found inside zones A and B, both ordinary deer and deer of mixed lineages roam in zone D.
“Keeping deer out of Nara’s management zone — which doesn’t mean just culling, but also installing further deer-proof fences — would help prevent agricultural damage and guard against disease transmission from animals to humans by keeping the Nara Park population isolated,” Takagi explained, calling such measures “a return to the traditional approach.”fancifully depicts Nara deer wandering near the shrine, grazing in meadows, woods and neighborhood fields.
Although the management plan has reduced the agricultural damage, Takagi and his colleagues’ 2024 paper warns that the deer problem still could “become more serious” unless officials beef up countermeasures. Nara’s agricultural cooperative didn’t respond to Mongabay’s request for comment.
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