“When there are too many deer, everything will get eaten or trampled. When the deer numbers come down, the pressure comes down, and the habitat responds and recovers.” Brilliant film from Cairngorms Connect Deer Stalker Jack Ward. This stuff is SO important #8OutOf10Bats

@CairngormsCo This is basically what happens when you restore an ecosystem and reintroduce wolves. The natural world ( of which we are, like it or not, a part of) did quite well until humans destabilised things by removing the species we thought of as nuisances.

@ChrisGPackham @CairngormsCo Bringing back the predators, especially the Wolf and Lynx, should now be an urgent priority of all conservationists and of climate policy, along with switching land use subsidies from sheep-wrecking uplands to rewilding

@CairngormsCo Well, let's eat them then. Venison should be cheaper, no?

@CairngormsCo But please speak out against the inhumanity of hunting deer with horses and hounds. @BritishDeerSoc

@CairngormsCo A fantastic film.

@GreeneIndy @CairngormsCo Would love to see Lynx being rewilded into the Highlands

@CairngormsCo Sheep are a far bigger problem in Wales, there are millions of them. Yet no one seems to acknowledge the damage they do to habitats 🤔

@ChrisGPackham @CairngormsCo Whilst I can understand the importance of habitat and biodiversity, I can’t reconcile killing deer as being anything other than inhumane and cruel. There must be other ways???

@ChrisGPackham @CairngormsCo That's what's called a 180 in BMX lore. All those anti hunt groups with the Disney like idealism gonna be a tad salty over this. Oh well, recent ruling in Spain looks good for hunting with dogs, all come round in the end.

@CairngormsCo 🤝 @IrishRainforest