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GAMEKEEPERS have repeated their warning against the extension of the deer season – and highlighted photographs of out-of-season culling as evidence of the welfare issues involved. The photos, taken by a local on Skye, emerged on social media last week, showing dead hinds lying inside a new forestry enclosure near Dunvegan, including one with a very large unborn calf lying alongside. Deer managers can use a General Authorisation to cull deer inside enclosed woodland up to April 1, but the Scottish Gamekeepers Association said that the hind in the picture appears to have been shot many weeks after that cut-off date. NatureScot, the body that signs off deer authorisations, confirmed on Thursday afternoon that it had not sanctioned any special permissions for the Dunvegan fenced enclosure. ....
Recent incidents of what appears to be out-of-season deer culling on the Isle of Skye must not become Scotland’s standard of deer management, gamekeepers have warned. Photographs have emerged on Facebook showing dead hinds inside a new forestry enclosure at Dunvegan, on the MacLeod Estate. One image shows a large, unborn calf lying beside its shot mother and a second post shows another dead hind found just 1,000 yards away. The scenes have angered local people on social media, with one man who did not wish to be identified telling the PA news agency: “Shooting out of season is wrong and disgusting. The Government is wrong to hand out licences to do these culls. ....
Recent incidents of what appears to be out-of-season deer culling on the Isle of Skye must not become Scotland’s standard of deer management, gamekeepers have warned. Photographs have emerged on Facebook showing dead hinds inside a new forestry enclosure at Dunvegan, on the MacLeod Estate. One image shows a large, unborn calf lying beside its shot mother and a second post shows another dead hind found just 1,000 yards away. The scenes have angered local people on social media, with one man who did not wish to be identified telling the PA news agency: “Shooting out of season is wrong and disgusting. The Government is wrong to hand out licences to do these culls. ....