Editing Muskox (section)

== Conservation status ==
Historically, this species declined because of overhunting, but populations have recovered following enforcement of hunting regulations.<ref name="iucn" /> Management in the late 1900s was mostly conservative hunting quotas to foster recovery and recolonization from the historic declines.<ref name="iucn" /> The current world population of muskoxen is estimated at between 80,000<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.alaska.edu/opa/eInfo/index.xml?StoryID=161 |title=Robert G. White Large Animal Research Station, University of Alaska |publisher=Alaska.edu |date=1963-10-12 |access-date=2011-03-03 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100527104508/http://www.alaska.edu/opa/eInfo/index.xml?StoryID=161 |archive-date=2010-05-27}}</ref> and 125,000,<ref name="FWS">{{cite web |url=http://www.fws.gov/species/species_accounts/bio_musk.html |title=Muskox, (Ovibos moschatus) US Fish & Wildlife Service |publisher=Fws.gov |access-date=2011-03-03 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304075636/http://www.fws.gov/species/species_accounts/bio_musk.html |url-status=dead}}</ref> with an estimated 47,000 living on [[Banks Island]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.pc.gc.ca/en/pn-np/yt/ivvavik/info/plan/plan5 |title=Annual Report of Research and Monitoring in National Parks of the Western Arctic 2005, Parks Canada |publisher=Pc.gc.ca |date=2005 |access-date=2017-12-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171222105547/https://www.pc.gc.ca/en/pn-np/yt/ivvavik/info/plan/plan5 |archive-date=2017-12-22 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

In Greenland, there are no major threats. However, populations are often small in size and scattered; this makes them vulnerable to local fluctuations in climate. Most populations are within national parks, where they are protected from hunting.<ref name="iucn" /> Muskoxen occur in four of Greenland's protected areas, with indigenous populations in [[Northeast Greenland National Park]] and introduced populations in {{ill|Arnangarnup Qoorua|lt=Arnangarnup Qoorua Nature Reserve|qid=Q108071480|s=1|v=sup}} and [[Kangerlussuaq]] and {{ill|Maniitsoq Caribou Reserve|lt=Maniitsoq Caribou Reserves|qid=121380808|s=1|v=sup}}. In these areas, muskoxen receive full protection.<ref name="iucn" />

Muskoxen are being domesticated for the production of [[qiviut]].