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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Rory Carroll Ireland correspondent

‘We know how to kill it’: Irish national park battles slow-motion ecological calamity

Ladies View in Killarney national park in County Kerry, Ireland
Ladies View in Killarney national park in County Kerry, Ireland. Photograph: David Lichtneker/Alamy

Killarney national park is Ireland’s environmental jewel, a 10,000-hectare Unesco biosphere reserve with ancient oaks and sublime landscapes that drew 1.7 million visitors last year.

It is expecting even more this summer after a star turn in David Attenborough’s documentary series Wild Isles that showed two red deer stags locked in a dramatic battle for a harem of females.

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