DutchNews, April 3, 2017
Deer in a Zandvoort residential area earlier in January. Photo: DutchNews.nl |
Hunters have so far shot 1,440 of the
fallow deer living in the dune area west of Amsterdam, alderman Udo Kock has
told the city’s finance committee.
The city and province of Noord-Holland want
to slash the deer population from 3,800 to 1,000 in order to reduce damage to
plants and trees and reduce the risk of road accidents.
Officials hope to have
reduced the deer population to 1,000 by 2020. Female deer are being targeted to
keep the population down.
Efforts to keep the deer in the reserve with high
fences and cattle grids have failed to contain all the animals and there were
61 traffic accidents involving deer in 2015.
Animal rights groups have tried to
have the mass cull stopped but the courts ruled in favour of the cull.
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