Deer

The Deer Group works to promote sustainable deer management, particularly as part of the sustainable upland land use agenda.

The Deer Group has a number of active members, a full list is shown below.

 

Convener

Duncan Orr-Ewing

Vice-Convener

Hazel Forrest

Staff liaison

Juliet Caldwell

The group includes LINK landowning organisations and is therefore both a deer management policy and operational forum, with links to both NatureScot and the private deer management sector.

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What are the Scottish government’s proposed Deer Management Nature Restoration Orders?

16 Oct 2024

The LINK Deer Group comprises all of the main eNGO landowning organisations in Scotland. What are the Scottish government’s proposed Deer Management Nature Restoration Orders? Why does the LINK Deer Group agree that this measure is now necessary? Recently the Scottish government announced its Programme for Government for 2024-5 and we can now expect a […]

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LINK’s Deer Group response to deer cull incentive schemes launch

15 Aug 2024

NatureScot today announced the launch of new deer management incentive pilot schemes. Responding to this, Duncan-Orr Ewing, the Convener of LINK’s Deer Group said: “We welcome the announcement of deer management incentives by NatureScot. In the absence of natural predators, deer populations need to be managed to prevent damage to habitats and species, and also […]

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Venison subsidy for Scotland – a joint statement

22 Apr 2024

The three organisations that last year set the concept of a venison subsidy in motion have welcomed the recent announcement by Màiri McAllan Cabinet Secretary for Wellbeing Economy, Net Zero and Energy that work on venison is included in a set of measures for climate change action. In the measures announced last week it was […]

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