Pest or protected game species? Push to rethink shooting rules as farmers battle feral deer

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With an influx of feral deer causing headaches for landowners in rural NSW, the Government is pushing for a change that will allow people to hunt the animal without a game licence.

Hundreds of feral deer in rural NSW are damaging crops and transferring disease to sheep and cattle

Beef producer Ted Rowley is tired of killing wild deer on his property near Jindabyne in the New South Wales Snowy Mountains. Feral deer also damage native vegetation, foul waterways by wallowing in them, and transfer disease to sheep and cattle. In New South Wales, the Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party has members in both houses of Parliament.

 

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