Milu Yuan

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The Milu Park, or Milu Yuan ({{zh|c=麋鹿苑|p=Mílù Yuán}}), is a large public park located in southern Beijing, China named after its captive breeding herd of milu or Père David's deer. It was once called the Nanyuan Garden or Nanhaizi Garden, which was the imperial hunting grounds for Ming and Qing emperors. The gardens, palaces, forests, rivers, marshes and grasslands used to be enclosed by walls

and gates.

Milu Yuan is now a public park and an ecological research center that serves as a natural park for animals in Beijing. Among the attractions are the Père David's deer or milu a deer that became extinct in China toward the end of the 19th century during the Qing dynasty. The deer was re-introduced to Beijing from Britain, mainly the Whipsnad Wild Animal Park, in the 1980s.{{Cite journal |last=Jiang |first=Zhigang |last2=Yu |first2=Changqing |last3=Feng |first3=Zuojiqn |last4=Zhang |first4=Linyuan |last5=Xia |first5=Jinshi |last6=Ding |first6=Yuhua |last7=Lindsay |first7=Nick |date=2000 |title=Reintroduction and Recovery of Père David's Deer in China |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3783620 |journal=Wildlife Society Bulletin |volume=28 |issue=3 |pages=681-687 |jstor=3783620}} On March 18, 1999 the park celebrated the birth of a Père David's deer, the first wild birth in centuries.{{Cite journal |last=Yuankai |first=Tang |date=2010 |title=Back to Nature |journal=Beijing Review |volume=53 |issue=34 |pages=42-43 |via=EBSCOhost}} As of 2010, Milu Yuan had the highest population of Père David's deer worldwide.