The Queensland Government’s newly released Feral Deer Management Strategy 2022-2027 explicitly includes recreational hunters as stakeholders and acknowledges their role in managing the state’s feral deer population.

The Strategy notes hunters assist with “Implement[ing] best practice feral deer management for effective and humane management of feral deer (red, fallow, chital and rusa deer).”

Naturally we are very pleased to see the lobbying and representation efforts that we and other hunting organisations have made are being taken into account, and we will continue to advocate for greater hunting access across Queensland and the rest of Australia too.