{"id":2168,"date":"2018-04-23T22:21:17","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T22:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fsccmn.com\/?p=2168"},"modified":"2018-04-23T23:35:48","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T23:35:48","slug":"preliminary-results-of-wild-deer-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/?p=2168","title":{"rendered":"Preliminary Results of Wild Deer Survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2135\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fsccmn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Deer-Tim-Williams-Flickr-300x246.png\" alt=\"Deer\" width=\"300\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Deer-Tim-Williams-Flickr-300x246.png 300w, https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Deer-Tim-Williams-Flickr-768x631.png 768w, https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Deer-Tim-Williams-Flickr-1024x841.png 1024w, https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Deer-Tim-Williams-Flickr.png 1154w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Last year\u00a0landholders were invited to complete a survey developed by\u00a0Upper Murrumbidgee Landcare and associated Landcare groups\u00a0to gauge landholders\u2019 perceptions on a range of deer issues. The survey covered\u00a0south-east NSW, bordering Victorian regions and the ACT and provided\u00a0an opportunity for landholders to express their views of wild deer, provide observations on deer species and abundance, document whether wild deer are causing an impact and convey any concerns they might have on the management of wild deer.<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">The full report on the survey will be out soon but here are a few preliminary results. There is a clear, significant interest in this issue with 650 responses to the survey from across the south east.\u00a0Of those people, 76% consider deer a pest species, more than 60% see deer at least monthly,\u00a079% believe deer numbers are increasing,\u00a028% enjoy having deer, 16% would like to see more deer and\u00a029% of the people who responded from the South Coast already control deer.<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"\">More than 200 people joined a contact list to find out about an upcoming information session. You can still be added to this list by\u00a0emailing or phoning\u00a0Georgeanna Story, Upper Murrumbidgee Landcare Coordinator, on 0429 7799 28 or at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:upper.murrumbidgee@gmail.com\">upper.murrumbidgee@gmail.com<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year\u00a0landholders were invited to complete a survey developed by\u00a0Upper Murrumbidgee Landcare and associated Landcare groups\u00a0to gauge landholders\u2019 perceptions on a range of deer issues. The survey covered\u00a0south-east NSW, bordering Victorian regions and the ACT and provided\u00a0an opportunity for landholders to express their views of wild deer, provide observations on deer species and abundance, document [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,4,25],"tags":[195,186],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2168"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2212,"href":"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168\/revisions\/2212"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}