The report can be read, here, and the SGA recommends that all deer members read the report as soon as
possible, giving their comments to the office, as we will be seeking urgent talks with Scottish
Government. https://www.gov.scot/binaries/content/documents/govscot/publications/corporate-report/2020/01/the-management-of-wild-deer-in-scotland-deer-working-group-report/documents/the-management-of-wild-deer-in-scotland-deer-working-group-report/the-management-of-wild-deer-in-scotland-deer-working-group-report/govscot%3Adocument/Deer%2BWorking%2BGroup%2Bfinal%2Breport%2B-%2B19%2BDecember%2B2019%2B-%2Bpublication%2Bnumber%2B%25281%2529.pdf
See
the Chairman's response, here: “If Scottish Government brings in the changes it signalled with the
Werritty report into grouse shooting and some of the frankly damaging recommendations for deer in this
report, it may find it begins to lose the delivery support and good will of a key rural sector. “We said
in our own positive Deer Vision report, published before Christmas, that our members have killed close
to a million deer in Scotland in the last 10 years.
“SGA members represent a significant portion of
the skilled manual labour force on the ground, who will be necessary to deliver targets, whether they be
for climate or biodiversity.
“This sector is getting tired of being kicked from pillar to post and
this report, which basically signals a free-for-all on an iconic Scottish species, is a further hammer
blow. We will be gauging the temperature within our membership over the coming days and seeking urgent
talks with Government.”
