A Half-yearly Peer Reviewed Journal of Bangladesh Forest Research Institute
During February, 1987 a sample survey was conducted on the intensity of browsing damage by deer in a mixed plantation of 1985 under Kaptai Pulpwood Division, Chittagong Hill Tracts. A systematic strip sampling method was used for the survey. The percentages of browsed and unbrowsed plants were estimated for all the species. The estimates revealed that the plantation was almost a failure due to browsing damage by deer and early mortality of the seedlings and some other causes which could not be identified. It was found that an average of 4% plants were browsed by deer, 2% were left unbrowsed and 94% could not be traced in the plantation.