A deer management service will be provided in Wicklow, following the signing of a contract between the Department of Agriculture, Department of Heritage and the Gaeltacht and the Wicklow Uplands Council (WUC).

The WUC won the tender for the project, which will see a part-time project manager appointed for the three years of the programme.

Spokesperson for the WUC Brian Dunne said that the manager will liaise between landowners and hunters.

He added that the project will focus on three specific hotspots for deer and that while previous deer management exercises focused on TB, this one will be on environmental damage of forestry, fences, crops and grass.

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Provision of deer management services for the Garden County signed