A CROFTERS trust has threatened to “buy out” a piece of land owned by a Scottish conservation charity because it doesn’t agree with the organisation’s management of deer on the property.
Last week, the Assynt Crofters' Trust (ACT) complained that an out-of-season deer cull by the John Muir Trust (JMT) on their property in Quinag, Sutherland was “gratuitous” and would have a “direct, long-lasting and detrimental effect” on neighbouring properties that rely on deer to make an income from stalking.
NatureScot has already granted the JMT permission to undertake the cull, which the organisation says will help protect some of the “last remaining fragments of Scotland’s Atlantic rain forest.”
