Recent incidents of what appears to be out-of-season deer culling on the Isle of Skye must not become Scotland’s standard of deer management, gamekeepers have warned.
Photographs have emerged on Facebook showing dead hinds inside a new forestry enclosure at Dunvegan, on the MacLeod Estate.
One image shows a large, unborn calf lying beside its shot mother and a second post shows another dead hind found just 1,000 yards away.
The scenes have angered local people on social media, with one man who did not wish to be identified telling the PA news agency: “Shooting out of season is wrong and disgusting. The Government is wrong to hand out licences to do these culls.
Recent incidents of what appears to be out-of-season deer culling on the Isle of Skye must not become Scotland’s standard of deer management, gamekeepers have warned.
Photographs have emerged on Facebook showing dead hinds inside a new forestry enclosure at Dunvegan, on the MacLeod Estate.
One image shows a large, unborn calf lying beside its shot mother and a second post shows another dead hind found just 1,000 yards away.
The scenes have angered local people on social media, with one man who did not wish to be identified telling the PA news agency: “Shooting out of season is wrong and disgusting. The Government is wrong to hand out licences to do these culls.
Dunvegan Castle AFTER over a year and a half in development, the MacLeod Estate’s new native woodland creation scheme has been awarded a £1million grant from the Scottish Government and EU. The project is being overseen by Scottish Woodlands Ltd, who will plant the scheme on the estate’s behalf by the end of 2021. This native woodland creation scheme is the first phase of the MacLeod Estate’s evolving rewilding strategy which Hugh MacLeod, estate director, has been working on for the last few years. It is one of the most ambitious projects of its kind on the Isle of Skye, with this first phase focusing on transforming the marginal land of Dunvegan’s former home farm, Totachocaire, into a 240 hectare native woodland area that will be treble the size of the existing contiguous woodlands around Dunvegan Castle & Gardens.