A new jointly-funded project will run for three years and is designed to enable rapid local level capacity building and cooperation in relation to long-term management of deer populations in Wicklow.
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.
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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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Title: New deer management project for Wicklow
A new jointly-funded project will run for three years and is designed to enable rapid local level capacity building and cooperation in relation to long-term management of deer populations in Wicklow.
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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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