Feral deer numbers take hit in Limestone Coast cull

CM
Updated June 16 2022 - 3:34pm, first published 12:00pm
The aerial culling program in April and May covered more than 120,000 hectares and saw 660 feral deer removed from the landscape. Photo: SUPPLIED
The aerial culling program in April and May covered more than 120,000 hectares and saw 660 feral deer removed from the landscape. Photo: SUPPLIED

THE Limestone Coast Landscape Board's autumn feral deer control program has removed 1166 feral deer from local farmland and reserves- which the board estimates may have been eating the equivalent of more than 4000 sheep.

CM

Catherine is Stock Journal's long time livestock editor and South East journalist.

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