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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lulie" data-source="post: 1427200" data-attributes="member: 48209">It is funny to read all these ideas about how to control deer numbers ect. I live on a small game reserve, 5000 hectares, in South Africa. Every year we do game counts and veld analysis to asess what animals we need to take off and in what numbers. There is a lot of science behind it and its a fairly complicated process but all goes into maintaining a healthy balance between the animals and the habitat.In our situation we take off +/- 200 impala a year, some are sold to other farms, alot go to the butchers. Larger buck such as kudu/ waterbuck/ eland are mostly sold to restock other farms or to hunting farms. Most are captured in family groups and sold on like that.This relooking at stocking numbers never stops if you want a healthy environment. Maybe the uk authorities should look into some of these long standing tried and tested methods of game management. It would be alot more beneficial than trying to introduce predetors to the scenario. We have plenty of leopard here and the odd lion or two coming through and these factors are accounted for in the game counts so I know adding a few lynx to the picture will really make very little difference.Lulie</blockquote>