24/1/2024

iDeer Project: What are your perceptions of wild deer in England and Wales?

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The iDeer project wants to hear your views on wild deer!

You are invited to complete our questionnaire, which will take approximately 10-15 minutes.

The questionnaire is anonymous and contains questions that will help us explore differences in perceptions and attitudes towards wild deer, their positive and negative impacts, and how to manage these.

Whether you are a member of the public who does not manage land, or a professional in the land management sector, your views and opinions are extremely valuable.

No specific knowledge of wild deer is required to answer this questionnaire.

Click here for the survey in English.


Mae project iDeer eisiau clywed eich barn am geirw gwyllt!

Rydym yn eich gwahodd I lenwi’r holiadur a fydd yn cymryd tua 10-15 munud.

Mae'r holiadur yn ddienw ac yn cynnwys cwestiynau a fydd yn ein helpu ni archwilio gwahaniaethau mewn canfyddiadau ac agweddau ymhlith gwahanol bobl tuag at geirw gwyllt, eu effeithiau positif a negyddol, a sut mae rheoli'r rheini.

P’un a ydych yn aelod o’r cyhoedd ac nid ydych yn rheoli tir, neu’n weithiwr proffesiynol yn y sector rheoli tir, bydd eich safbwyntiau a’ch barn yn hynod werthfawr.

Nid oes angen gwybodaeth benodol am geirw gwyllt i ateb yr holiadur hwn.

Cliciwch yma i lenwi’r arolwg yn Gymraeg.

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Deer Control

at 17:49 on 31/01/2024 by HWG. ELWES

About a dozen Foresters and Farmers have formed a Central Cotswold Deer Management group to count and Cull the deer in the area but one member in the centre of the group will not cull any deer and we have counted one herd of 417 fallow and plenty of Roe and Muntjac on his large estate of woodland and farm. The group culls around 1000 each year, just two owners account for around 700 of this, but sadly many others only shoot 'for the pot'. and do not try hard enough. We all suffer considerable crop, grassland and forestry damage and there is a roadkill two or three times every week and it will not be long before a driver is killed also. We ourselves kill about 300 and have erected 6ft fencing along a lot of our boundary and we have encouraged other owners to cover their ground as hard as possible for the first Fri/Sat & Sun every month as well as regular culling in order to increase the effective cull. Wild deer numbers have doubled in about ten years despite the group's efforts and we need top level encouragement, if not legislation ,to reduce the numbers as more and more land goes out of cultivation through re-wilding, stewardship farming policies and the Ukraine war. Recent Govt relaxation to allow the culling of bucks all year will make no difference because it is the dies that need culling to educe the numbers. I hope that this is helpful

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