Wicklow Uplands Council

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Caution: garden eating deers about. Photograph: Alan Betson ,
Deer oh deer: How to keep Bambi out of your garden

Oh no – or should that be oh dear – we have deer in our garden. Or rather, we very nearly have deer, their slow but steady invasion just about kept in(...)

Wicklow accounts for over a third of all deer shot by licensed hunters in Ireland in the last hunting season, and a high concentration of deer in certain areas has been linked to outbreaks of TB. Photograph: Wild Deer Association of Ireland
Deer culling programme in Wicklow to intensify

Plans to cull possibly thousands of wild deer in Co Wicklow are to be stepped up next month with the setting-up of teams to police animal populations (...)

Burning and hedge-cutting

The decision by Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht Heather Humphreys to relax environmental regulations on burning and hedge-cutting has be(...)