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darkroom12
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I know about driving through GlencoeIt is an obstacle course at night with the deer.
The fact the deer numbers keep growing though indicates there is sufficient food for them to eat and nature will equilibrate for that. Venison is also a lovely food to eat, I cannot imagine wolf is, and if we contained them in better, we could farm them. Nothing some well placed fencing wouldn't solve and a few extra game keepers couldn't handle - or even open up the area to blood sports. Our economy will need rejuvenated and deer hunting is a way to achieve that.
And other than driving carefully they really pose no risk to humans or live stock. We can co-exist with deer quite well. I have some in my garden, they are no issue at all.
Sorry to say this but you do not appear to appreciate the problem on the wilder parts of Scotland. Have you ever been to places like Ardnamurchan or Sutherland or even the more remote parts around Aviemore? It is a wild wilderness with little trace of regular human habitation and that is why they go there. Fencing them in, apart from the cost of deer fencing which has to be at least two metres high, will create or exacerbate the problem of food. There are so many of them, they only survive by being able to roam freely without boundaries in the search for food. The fact is there are proven examples of starvation leading to a slow death With a fence restricting their movements, they will soon consume what there is and this will lead to starvation.