Deer are probably Australia’s worst emerging pest animal problem, causing damage to the natural environment and agricultural businesses. Populations are expanding and deer are invading new areas, many due to deliberate introductions by recreational hunters.
NSW has listed the damage caused by deer as a key threatening process and removed the protected ‘game’ status for feral deer on all private land. It now designates deer a pest species.
Victoria has listed sambar impacts as a threatening process and yet it, like Tasmania, continues to protect deer as a hunting resource.
The Tasmanian Government must develop a comprehensive feral deer management strategy that reduces the destructive impacts of deer and protects the environment and farmers.
More than a million deer now trample Victoria’s national parks, high country, coastal country and the Mallee. They are set to become one of Victoria’s most damaging pest animal invaders.
The Victorian Deer Control Community Network is aimed at reducing the growing impacts of feral deer on Victoria’s farming communities and natural environment.
The federal government has released a National Feral Deer Action Plan, and public submissions for the plan are now open. Please use this form to make a submission today.
The Invasive Species Council was formed in 2002 to seek stronger laws, policies and programs to protect nature from harmful pests, weeds and diseases.
The Invasive Species Council acknowledges the Traditional Custodians throughout Australia and their connections to land and sea. We pay our respect to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.
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