Sika deer and established woodlands, and public and private forestry bodies adopt policies of rigorous year-round culling. The main predators of sika deer include tigers, wolves, leopards, and brown bears. Lynx and golden eagles target fawns. Velvet antler (dried immature antlers) is a popular ingredient in traditional Chinese medicine, and sika in China were domesticated long ago for the antler trade, along with several other species. In Taiwan, both Formosan sika deer and Formosan sambar deer ("Cervus unicolor swinhoei") have been farmed for velvet antlers. Japan is the only country in eastern Asia where sika deer were not farmed for velvet antlers.
Odelia Sika-Ntiamoah Boampong Odelia Sika-Ntiamoah Boampong Odelia Sika-Ntiamoah Boampong (born 1981) is a Ghanaian entrepreneur, TV and radio news reporter. She covered the Togolese elections in 2015 and has covered all UNFCCC conferences since 2009. She is also a documentary film maker (World Bank, IFDC, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Environment, Ministry of Energy) and presenter, Africa news (Euro news) correspondent Ghana, news anchor and reporter TV3 news. Twice a Ghana Journalist Award winner, she has also won the minister’s award in environmental reporting. She trained at the DW Akademie and was nominated by the US embassy in Ghana for the IVLP programme