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.