High fencing keeping deer out of woods ‘essential’

A CONTROVERSIAL deer fencing project is “absolutely essential” to ensure the future survival of oakwoods in Killarney National Park, the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) insisted yesterday.

The service also answered critics by stating that the EU authorities, in Brussels, had approved the €700,000 project and were meeting a substantial part of the cost.

The Killarney Nature Conservation Group (KNCG), which made a complaint to Brussels earlier this year, has hit out strongly at the new fencing and has claimed that machines involved in its erection have caused damage in the park.