Tomáš Kiss. Evaluation of the Current Health Situation of the Red Deer and Roe Deer in the Hunting Area JI Podunajská, Diploma Thesis, Technical University in Zvolen, Faculty of Forestry, Department of Applied Zoology and Wildlife Management, Diploma Thesis Supervisor doc. MVDr. Dušan Rajský, PhD., 97 p. The main purpose of this thesis is to evaluate the current health situation of the red deer and roe deer in the Hunting Area J I Podunajská. Game health and its control is considered one of the basic preconditions of successful hunting management. The Hunting Area J I Podunajská is the smallest deer hunting area in Slovakia. Its unique feature is its location at the state border with Hungary. The zone of the hunting area in question is predominantly located in the Danube floodplain and about thirty percent of the hunting area is covered in water. Both the forestry conditions within the riparian woodland and the specific natural conditions and features of the riverside hunting grounds of the Danube are related to the incidence of natural hotspots of some deer-related diseases (especially the liver fluke worm – the giant liver fluke Fascioloides magna). This work discusses the occurrence and distribution of the most significant contagious diseases of the red deer and roe deer in the environment of the Hunting Area JI Podunajská, as well as non-contagious diseases and etiologically distinctive disorders (traumatic, congenital, alimentary and tumorous). Proposed recommendations for the management of the hunting area are part of the assessment and control of the health of the targeted ruminant species. At the same time, the specific conditions within the Hunting Area J I Podunajská, resulting from its position at an international frontier on the Danube, are at risk due to game migration across the national border exacerbating the spread of contagious diseases.