And people wonder why we have so many deer

[Ploddy Paul]

Story on the BBC local news website for Norfolk, ( sorry don’t know how to include link) about a muntjac that got stuck in the M&S store in Norwich. The deer was rescued by Hillside Animal Rescue and at the end of the report it mentioned they have about 100 rescued deer and they have recently purchased a wood where the deer will be released. I had a look at their website and it would appear there is already a herd of about 100 fallow in the wood. Add on the 100 rescue deer and I’m sure the local farmers will be overjoyed. Not.

 

[Twodogs]

Would they not be committing a criminal offence in releasing non-indigenous animals into the wild?

 

[Ploddy Paul]

Yes, they say that the muntjac will have to stay with them for that very reason!

 

[NoIDeer]

Would they not be committing a criminal offence in releasing non-indigenous animals into the wild?

Unlimited fines or imprisonment apparently.

Wildlife and countryside act 1981 + The Invasive Species (Enforcement and Permitting) Order 2019

 

[WW.]

Or they can take the less bourgeois option and just humanely PTS but of course that won't bring in the donations which enable them to do this for a living...

How are they planning to keep the muntjac in but allow the fallow to roam?

10 acre wood with 100 fallow plus whatever else they release there. That won't end well...

 

[VSS]

In the general scheme of things, I don't think that a rescue centre releasing a hundred deer is really going to make any significant difference to the "deer problem", unless they were to release them in an area where currently deer are absent and thus create a new population in an otherwise deer-free part of the country.

(Happy to volunteer my woodland as a suitable site......)

 

[Rob-E]

Muntjac deer gets stuck on Norwich M&S escalator

Wendy Valentine from Hillside Animal Sanctuary says the rescue was "certainly one to remember".

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Norfolk Deer Search]

Story on the BBC local news website for Norfolk, ( sorry don’t know how to include link) about a muntjac that got stuck in the M&S store in Norwich. The deer was rescued by Hillside Animal Rescue and at the end of the report it mentioned they have about 100 rescued deer and they have recently purchased a wood where the deer will be released. I had a look at their website and it would appear there is already a herd of about 100 fallow in the wood. Add on the 100 rescue deer and I’m sure the local farmers will be overjoyed. Not.

There isn’t a deer problem in Norfolk or east anglia full stop!

You want to see a deer problem, look no further than the fallow in Lincolnshire and the sika in Dorset THEN you will see a deer problem.

That’s just a city dweller munty that got lost.

 

[Smellydog]

This country is fooked....

 

[Sol]

I was under the impression Muntjac were totally banned from being kept In captivity, I thought a lot of animals had gotten banned (e.g racoon dogs/tanukis) I guess not they require a strict license too own.

Whats stopping a wild life rescue at the very tip top of England getting one and then they get out? hopefully there's region requirements??? hopefully??

 

[Shabz]

Quite a few years ago, I walked the full length of all the A roads in east anglia to survey trees. I carried a knife with me and killed dozens of muntjac hit on the roads in the three or so months it took. Saw hundreds of already dead ones. Huge problem for the woodlands down there.

 

[Bugsy]

I’ve been pinging deer for 40years now and been to a lot of places in these years and never had an accident . In the last 14 months I’ve hit 4 and the bumper on my pickup is f…..d now , the last one 2 weeks ago was just outside Muirkirk and I tried to miss it but it slid below the pickup and when I pulled it to the side of the road I noticed his antlers totally snapped of , on closer inspection the side wall of the tyre was punctured .. £140 down again . The sika stag before that was standing in the middle of the road as I went around a bend so it was a 50 /50 what way to go bumper of again and a new headlight neaded . I had 14 sika in the back of the pickup and the price I got for them didn’t even pay 1/2 the repair costs so I’m getting fed up with the amount of deer about .