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Wildlife News | ‘Exploding’ feral deer a very real Aussie problem

Feral deer will become Australia’s ‘next rabbit plague’ without a containment zone, experts say According to the Guardian Australia newspaper : Populations of feral deer have increased tenfold in the past two decadeswith numbers now too high to be managed by recreational hunting or other recent control measures. Numbers of the invasive species are now so large in some parts of the east coast that a new national strategy by federal and state governments proposes establishing a “containment zone” to...