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Ban sought on shooting of female deer in Kerry

  • 25-06-2012 10:29am
    #1
    Sparks
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    Spotted on the Journal.ie.


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  • #2
    johngalway
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    On Radio one now.

    (Why is the solution to any problem in this country to ban things.)


  • #3
    meathstevie
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    Isn't a suspension of hunting seasons a fairly standard measure that can be implemented by the Minister for the Environment if he/she has good reason to believe a certain species' existence is under too much strain for legal hunting ?

    If numbers have dropped to such an alarming level as we're told from some quarters I suppose a suspension of seasons can be a temporary solution. A soft winter combined with a moratorium could boost the numbers by a couple of hundred heads.

    On the other hand is legal hunting the only reason for the decline ?

    As John put in his small print why should banning be the only solution ? Proper deer management including hunting has had no negative effects in Brittain and on the continent. On the contrary it is believed to have benefitted herd quality and numbers.


  • #4
    Vegeta
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    johngalway wrote: »
    (Why is the solution to any problem in this country to ban things.)

    Exactly what I was thinking. A ban is too permanent a measure.

    It's very easy to have no open season for female red deer in county Kerry this year. Then next year or the year after, when numbers recover have a season for them.


  • #5
    slippy wicket
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    Same as in Wicklow, if they could stop the poaching scum they would be a long way towards correcting any problem.
    Feckers have some places shot to pieces.


  • #6
    John_Rambo
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    slippy wicket wrote: »
    Same as in Wicklow, if they could stop the poaching scum they would be a long way towards correcting any problem.
    Feckers have some places shot to pieces.

    Who's doing it? Is it locals? Surely the communities know who's at it.


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  • #7
    christmas2012
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    surely they need a chance to reproduce


  • #8
    dodderangler
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    What are they doing in Wicklow? I've never seen more deer in my life than this year around Wicklow not sayin where as never know who is on this but are they shooting them or using dogs or something cuz with a gun they'd be heard


  • #9
    Birdnuts
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    John_Rambo wrote: »
    Who's doing it? Is it locals? Surely the communities know who's at it.

    Its often done in the dead of night in remote areas by outsiders travelling in refridgerated vans with UK regs.


  • #10
    Longfellow
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    slippy wicket wrote: »
    Same as in Wicklow, if they could stop the poaching scum they would be a long way towards correcting any problem.
    Feckers have some places shot to pieces.
    they is no Red deer left in wicklow


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