“…Escalating anthropogenic activities such as poaching for trophies and food assumption [ [38] , [39] , [40] , [41] ], deforestation and forest fire [ 42 , 43 ], change in river dynamics, increase in siltation [ 44 ], habitat fragmentation [ 45 ], infrastructure development [ 46 ], disease [ 29 , 36 , 40 , 41 ], human-wildlife conflict [ 47 , 48 ], and food deficiency due to agricultural expansion [ 49 ] have become a major threat to biodiversity conservation globally. These activities are especially likely to endanger the existence of habitat specialist species like swamp deer, which are already threatened with extinction [ 50 ].…”