During the Dutch occupation of Taiwan, over 100,000 pelts of Formosan sika, or "plum-blossom deer," were exported a year. Today the animals are facing extinction.
根據現存的荷蘭東印度公司檔案記載，十七世紀荷蘭人據台時代，平均每年出口十萬張以上梅花鹿皮，終至今天台灣特有亞種野生梅花鹿絕跡。