 The largest wild populations were found in 2009 in the Karatchingil Nature Reserve (320-350 animals) in the neighborhood of Altyn-Emel National Park in Kazakhstan, in the Badai Tugai Nature Reserve (374 animals) in Uzbekistan, and in the Tigrovaya Balka Nature Reserve (>150 animals) in Tadjikistan.The total wild population is 1,430 and increasing.Under the auspices of the Convention on Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS), also known as the Bonn Convention, the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) concerning Conservation and Restoration of the Bukhara Deer was concluded and came into effect on 16 May 2002.