Although there is habitat remaining, and thus hope for the species, poorly informed and integrated planning at the village, district and provincial levels continues to result in large scale conversion and conflicting land use needs. In many cases, local development plans and concessions are granted without considering the best use of valuable forest resources or the needs and the interests of the villages in the area. Similarly, villagers expand agricultural areas or burn forest to create livestock fodder without consideration of the long term impacts and loss of more valuable resources from their land. The result is unsustainable forest use and conversion and ultimately a continued decline in Eld’s deer nu