Environmental group lodge complaint over deer fencing

AN environmental group has made an official complaint to the European Commission about a new fencing system to keep deer out of some ancient oakwoods in Killarney National Park.

The Killarney Nature Conservation Group (KNCG) yesterday claimed the park authorities had “desecrated” an important ecological landscape by erecting deer fencing.

The aim of the fencing is to allow young trees to grow in an area of woodland that had been cleared of rhododendron trees.