AR-News: (UK) DEER CULLING DISCUSSED BY MINISTERS

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09:00 - 19 January 2004 

  Ministers will today announce plans on how to manage the country's growing 
population of deer after research found the animals are involved in over 
30,000 traffic collisions each year.

The research carried out by the Department for the Environment, Food and 
Rural Affairs (Defra) also found that the accidents kill up to 20 motorists each 
year. And deer of at least one species are believed to be present in nearly 
every 10 kilometre grid square of England and Wales, as well as Scotland.

Ministers will later today announce a public consultation document on how to 
manage the deer, and managed culling is one of the likely options. A Defra 
spokesman said: "The Department's view on deer management is that the best 
long-term solution to reduce the damage caused by deer is to achieve an adequate 
cull each year and so reduce the local deer population.

"We believe that this is best achieved through a wider, coordinated cull 
undertaken by a local Deer Management Group (DMG) rather than on an ad-hoc basis 
by individuals."





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"The world is a dangerous place,
not because of those who do evil,
but because of those who look on and do nothing.",
Albert Einstein

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have a 4% risk. US vegetarians have cholesterol levels 14% lower than 
meat-eaters; vegans (those who don't consume meat or dairy products) have levels 35% 
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