The need for a sustainable, safe and humane approach to management brings in a wide range of interests, public and private, statutory and voluntary. The Deer Initiative Partnership provides the framework for these interests to work together to achieve a shared vision:
The achievement and maintenance of a sustainable and healthy population of wild deer in England and Wales.
With the understanding that landscape-scale approaches should be applied more widely to land management issues, from wild boar to non-native species, biofuels and habitat networks, the model developed by the DI Partnership is becoming increasingly relevant. The Deer Initiative is a successful example of "big society" management of landscape scale challenges.
The Deer Initiative Partners
- Association of Chief Police Officers
- British Association for Shooting and Conservation
- British Deer Society
- ConFor
- Country Land and Business Association
- Countryside Council for Wales
- Defra
- Forestry Commission (England)
- Forestry Commission (Wales)
- Forest Research
- Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust
- Highways Agency
- Ministry of Defence
- National Farmer's Union
- National Forest Company
- National Gamekeepers Organisation
- National Trust
- Natural England
- RSPCA
- Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts
- St Hubert Club of Great Britain
- Union of Country Sports Workers
- Veterinary Deer Society
- Woodland Trust
