AERIAL surveying and camera traps will be among the techniques used in Tasmania’s first comprehensive state-wide census of its wild deer population.

Hunters could help solve the deer population problem while feeding hungry mouths, according to advocates, as the aerial culling of wild fallow deer in the central plateau conservation area begins.

As they spread, they raise uncomfortable issues for conservation. Fallow deer (Dama dama) were introduced to Tasmania for hunting by the newly arrived colonists in the 1830s.

Chad Wolbach of Tuscaloosa killed this estimated 170-pound fallow deer buck while bow-hunting on Buck Snort Hunting Club north of Greensboro on Oct. 19. The species was stocked in the state ...

THE state government says a recent survey found there are about 54,000 wild deer in Tasmania, but critics have hit out at the exclusion of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area from the survey.

FORMER Australian Greens leader Bob Brown has recommended shooting wild deer from helicopters in a bid to cull the species, which he says could decimate parts of Tasmania’s Wilderness World ...

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New Game Council strategy could result in wild deer being shot and processed for the table in Tasmania THE State Government says a new Game Species Unit will be set up to investigate the potential ...

New research has found that fallow deer bucks make judgements about the possible threat from competitors from the sound of their calls.