The wildlife living in tropical forests are an important resource that is hunted for food, sale, and for social and cultural reasons by local communities living in and around the forests. Wildlife provides significant calories for rural communities as well as essential protein and fats (Bennet et al., 2000); Townsend, 2000). According to Redford (1993), wild game is an important source of protein for rural people and its sale is an important source of cash. Shaw (1991 cited by Robinson and Bodmer, 1999) indicated that most hunting is for subsistence or for commerce. As Bigalke (1973) summarized from several literatures, in modern times, aside from ungulates (peccary, moose, caribou and bison), deer (white-tailed deer, mule deer and elk (or wapiti)) has played an important role in wildlife utilization farms, focusing on game utilization in North America. Other literature cited that deer is one of the wildlife species hunted by man because of its economic value in both market and subsistence (Bodmer, 1994; Cullen Jr. et al., 2000). In West Papua, together with wild pig, deer is one of the target animals widely hunted throughout the area (Pattiselanno, 2002).
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