Britain is in trouble with deer

The UK is looking at ways to deal with the negative effects of deer on the ecosystem, whose numbers have exceeded 2 million 957 years, due to the fact that hunting stopped during the Covid-19 restrictions and there was no deer feeding. . predators in the country.

While British Game and Nature Conservation Society (BACS) officials and operators dealing with the deer trade claim that hunting will prevent excessive population growth, the Organization for the Ethical Treatment of Animals ( PETA) argues that the deer population can be managed through regulation of natural areas and methods of birth control.

In England, where deer-eating predators such as lions, lynxes and wolves do not live, deer numbers are regulated by hunting activities. However, during the epidemic, hunters could not go outside and could not find a restaurant or hotel to sell the deer they had hunted.

According to Martin Edwards, Head of BASC’s Deer Management Unit, deer population management efforts have been hampered by restrictions imposed during the outbreak. Sharing data from the 115-year-old institution with approximately 150,000 members, Edwards said: “The estimated number of deer is 2 million. We are facing the largest deer population since the Norman conquest of England (1066). Six species of deer live in different regions and at different densities in the country,” he said.

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Noting that about 100,000 registered hunters are keeping the deer population at sustainable levels, Edwards said that after 957 years, deer, which numbered as many as 2 million, began to harm the environment.

Pointing out that deer populations of this size negatively affect natural flora and fauna with every step from grazing to wandering, Edwards said: “This intensity can damage forests, farmland and our natural heritage. Deer eat the bark and low branches of adult trees and kill young trees, negatively affecting planned forestry and natural regeneration processes.

According to BASC’s recommendations to bring the deer population to a sustainable level, 350,000 deer should be killed annually. Edwards stressed that getting the meat of hunted animals to the broader masses will help the economy and support those in need. (AA)