In recent decades, the number of UK deer has, to quote Forestry England in 2022, “skyrocketed”. With an absence of predators or sufficient culling, deer numbers may have more than tripled since the 19

Winter may well be the most overlooked season of them all when it comes to appreciating nature’s joys. While it’s easy to take pleasure in the budding blooms of spring, summer’s resplendent blossoms a

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Originally from japan and other parts of eastern Asia, sika deer were introduced to Britain and Ireland in the 1860s. They look like a cross between fallow and red deer, and frequently interbreed with