Recently, a wild forest musk deer was captured again by an infrared camera in the Mangshan Mountain National Natural Reserve, Yizhang County. Forest musk deer is listed as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species, and under first-class state protection in China.

With a forest coverage of 99.08 percent, Mangshan Mountain on the border between Hunan and Guangdong provinces is a natural gene pool of animals and plants. The reappearance of this forest musk deer proves that the mountain's ecological system has been well preserved, offering a favorable habitat for forest musk deer.