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How many deer are there in Scotland?

We have just completed a report for the Scottish Government estimating how many woodland deer there are in Scotland.  A fascinating process, involving the linking together of a sequence of very complex population models for a range of forests spread across Scotland.   It’s involved developing some natty new techniques, which make best use of the available national data sets FC gathers from their deer larders, along with the deer…
July 4, 2016