Members of a community-owned company are to vote on a proposal to eradicate deer from their island. The island of South Uist was bought out in November 2006 by a community-controlled company called Stòras Uibhist. The company paid more than £4.5m to buy South Uist and the neighbouring islands of Eriskay and Benbecula. However, controversy has dogged the buyout with a blazing row hitting the national papers in 2018 when the company board granted a licence to a private company to collect seaweed from the island’s shores. Collection of seaweed to use as fertiliser is a traditional right of crofters on the island. Now Shooting Times has seen the text of a resolution which is to be placed before the company’s members that calls for the total eradication of deer from the Island. Justifying the proposal, the member who tabled it claimed that “the deer are the cause of many accidents and near-misses”. The member cited the high rates of Lyme disease on the island and concluded that �
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