Wildlife crime in Ireland increasing with deer at huge risk

Wildlife crime in Ireland is on the increase and deer are at huge risk, particularly in counties like Kerry, Tipperary and Wicklow, the Irish Deer Commission has said.

Wildlife crime in Ireland is on the increase and deer are at huge risk, particularly in counties like Kerry, Tipperary and Wicklow, the Irish Deer Commission (IDC) has said.

The IDC - a deer conservation and management body - have launched a campaign urging the public to report armed illegal hunters who are running down wild deer and often bludgeoning them to death in the Irish countryside.