The vice-chair of Perth -based Scottish Gamekeepers Association has warned that a controversial early cull of female deer is going to leave orphaned fawns to starve.
On August 31 Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS) began the out-of-season national cull, which Peter Fraser believes would not have been needed if “it had managed woodland deer properly”.
The FLS action, authorised by Scotland’s nature body NatureScot, is being carried out across Scotland’s public forests, many weeks before the official start of the season on October 21.
