Scotland’s publicly-funded forestry bodies have spent more than £134m controlling deer over the last decade, The Ferret can reveal.
The country’s’s deer population is estimated to have reached more than one million, having doubled since the 1990s. In high concentrations, deer can cause numerous issues.
They include the deaths of an estimated 700 people in vehicle collisions in the UK every year, the environmental harm caused by trampling and overgrazing, poor animal welfare due to insufficient food and shelter for deer in winter, and steep economic costs.
700 people killed per year! I never thought it’d be that high. Genuinely shocked.
" An estimated 700 people die or are injured each year in the UK due to colliding with the animals" - which is slightly more believable. The summary above is probably AI.
I copied and pasted the first few paragraphs from the article - as I typically do with almost all the articles I post here. The text as it stand above is as it was when I copied it this morning. It looks as though they have edited it to read ‘killed or injured’ since then.
That would make more sense.