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A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

<p>NPWS outdoor staff, James Doherty, left, PJ Murphy, centre, with NPWS Conservation Ranger, Tim Cahalane, plant oak saplings in Derrycunnihy woodland. Picture: Valerie O'Sullivan/</p>

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From 30,000 acorns to mighty oaks — with luck and a little help

National Park and Wildlife Service Outdoor staff in Killarney National Park painstakingly sowed 31,375 acorns, under the supervision of Horticulturalist Gerry Murphy and Gardener Stephen Moore

<p>Camera traps are remote operated tools primarily purposed with recording wildlife (mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians) while minimising disturbance — the ones in Wicklow captured lots of deer</p>

outdoors

Our most common wild animal? Here's what the camera traps tell us

<p>The red deer that some consider native in Ireland today were probably transported here in boats from the continent by the first farmers, about 6,000 years ago. Fallow deer were brought here by the Normans in the 13th century and through the middle ages were kept in ‘deer parks’ all over Ireland. Sika deer are a species native to Japan, first brought to Ireland by Viscount Lord Powerscourt in County Wicklow in 1860</p>

outdoors

Beautiful deer are nibbling native woodlands into non-existence

Hungry deer from Killarney National Park are encroaching into neighbouring farmland

munster

Hungry deer from Killarney National Park are encroaching into neighbouring farmland

Tests being carried out on carcasses of native red deer in Killarney National Park

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Tests being carried out on carcasses of native red deer in Killarney National Park

Kerry cull targets Red Deer: Parks Service must do better

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Kerry cull targets Red Deer: Parks Service must do better

Should we think again before giving in to a political call for deer cull?

Should we think again before giving in to a political call for deer cull?

BEFORE a trigger is pulled in the latest cull of native Red deer, in Killarney National Park, should the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) think again, asks Donal Hickey

Mon, 16 Nov, 2015