Deerstalking among the dogwalkers

It's a super frosty morning in Sussex and Roy Lupton is out to stalk fallow. Out, too, are the local dogwalkers, and Roy and his friend Connor Gorsuch have to find deer undisturbed by them.
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Why shoot deer?
There are reportedly more than two million red, roe, fallow, sika, muntjac and Chinese water deer in Britain’s countryside and semi-urban areas, the highest level for 1,000 years. Numbers have doubled since 1999, according to the Deer Initiative, the UK government’s deer agency.
Deer are an attractive and an important part of our wildlife. However, they have no natural predator in the UK so numbers must be sensibly and strategically managed to keep them in balance with their habitat and to prevent damage to crops, trees, woodland flora, gardens and other wildlife.
Deer cause £4.5 million-worth (Forestry Commission Scotland) of damage to plantations and other commercial woodlands in Scotland. Crop damage is estimated at £4.3m a year according to DEFRA, with the greatest damage on cereal crops in east and south-west England.
More than 8,000 hectares (Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology) of woodland with SSI status is currently in ‘unfavourable’ or ‘recovering’ condition due to deer impacts such as browsing and fraying. Deer can also influence the variety of wildlife in woodlands and other habitats by altering structural and plant species diversity. According to the University of East Anglia’s Dr Paul Dolman, that has resulted in a 50% decline in woodland bird numbers where deer are present, impacting particularly on nightingales, blackcaps, chiffchaffs and warblers.
Deer are susceptible to Bovine TB and may be responsible for the transmission of TB to cattle. They are also the likely driver behind the UK’s increasing tick population (Scharlemann et al 2008).
Happily, venison is a delicious meat. It is wild, natural and free range, and - almost fat-free - it is one of the healthiest meats available today. Results from research commissioned by the Game-to-Eat campaign (Leatherhead Food International Research 2006) suggest that there are real health benefits to eating game. Venison is high in protein, low in saturated fatty acids and contains higher levels of iron than any other red meat.

[@TK-ul4sy]

Excellent, Roy and David are great. Very safe, very informative and very entertaining.

[@thomasreed49]

We do have a. Nature reserve in Cambridgeshire with no dogs allowed. But you always get dog walkers that try it on and walk through the reserve. One warden was telling me they abuse they have to take from them when they are escorting them off of the reserve. They have another reserve where dogs are allowed they were telling me when they doing their butterfly counts they have to turn into a ballet dancer to dodge all the dog excrement on the ground.

[@ChrisLegg-i6s]

We do phone each other when we know the others out. Just to say just checking your on silent 🤣

[@mattyallen3396]

The fact that people can trespass on your land is nutts to me

[@Hereward47]

It’s nuts that individuals can own vast tracts of land, and try to prevent free born Englishmen from simply walking across it.

[@paulharrison6417]

@@Hereward47 right on comraid!

[@dominicking1530]

@@paulharrison6417Comrade
The fact that you’re comment has an option to translate to English😂

[@DaibhidhBhoAlba]

Make sure you never visit Scotland then. Everyone can walk pretty much anywhere they want here and guess what? Best stalking in the UK. It's not trespass if you're allowed to walk on the land or footpath.

[@cedhome7945]

Hereward47@@Hereward47so using your logic I can walk about your property as and when I like (and invite lots of people to come and party)...... Fool

[@richards.7770]

My phone’s ringer is on “quack” mode”, so I’d be ok.😊

[@leehall9015]

Big balls to do that mate .. Would you go to Ukraine nah doubt it no McDonald’s.