McNeish Calls For Deer Control Measures

Cameron McNeish, president of the Ramblers Association in Scotland, has called for new legislation to control the country's deer population.

McNeish's comments followed on from a demonstration by gamekeepers against a cull of red deer on the Glenfeshie Estate, who he reportedly compared to a 'rural rent-a-mob'. He believes that 'too many Scottish gamekeepers and their employers will do anything to stop effective culling of deer populations. '

The result, he says, is that native Scottish woodlands are unable to regenerate to the detriment of the landscape and the outdoors and he has called for new legislation 'to ensure that the public interest takes priority over the private exploitation of one of Scotland's finest natural resources.'

Full story in the Scotsman.