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Best Practice Guides

Welcome to the England and Wales Best Practice Guides.

Welcome to the England and Wales Deer Best Practice guides. Here you will be able to download a range of guides on wild deer management topics. The list below gives an indication of the guides that will be available, please be patient if the topic in which you are most interested is not yet published (marked *). The Guides are provided free of charge subject to some simple terms.

You will also find information on the background to this project, together with a list of contributors.

Guides will be subject to regular review so keep an eye on our news page. If you have comments on a guide please contact the Best Practice Officer.

The Guides

Topic Area Topic Area

Legislation, Health and Safety and Welfare

Guides marked with * are not yet published

Culling Deer

Guides marked with * are not yet published

Species Ecology

Guides marked with * are not yet published

Meat Hygiene

Guides marked with * are not yet published

Records and Survey

Guides marked with * are not yet published

Firearms

Guides marked with * are not yet published

Deer Management

Guides marked with * are not yet published

Equipment

Guides marked with * are not yet published

Disease

Guides marked with * are not yet published

Associated information

Guides marked with * are not yet published

Terms

General and legal

The information contained in this Site is for general guidance on wild deer management in England and Wales only. The application and impact of laws can vary widely based on the specific facts involved and laws, rules and regulations change with time. Accordingly, the information on this Site is provided with the understanding that the authors and publishers are not herein engaged in rendering legal, or other professional advice and services.

Accuracy and use of information

All information in this Site is provided "as is", with no guarantee of completeness, accuracy, timeliness or of the results obtained from the use of this information, and without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including, but not limited to warranties of performance and fitness for a particular purpose.

In no event will the Deer Initiative Partnership, or the partners, agents or employees thereof, or Deer Initiative Ltd be liable to you or anyone else for any decision made or action taken in reliance on the information in this Site or for any consequential, special or similar damages, even if advised of the possibility of such damages.

Certain links in this Site connect to other Web Sites maintained by third parties over whom the Deer Initiative has no control. The Deer Initiative makes no representations as to the accuracy or any other aspect of information contained in other Web Sites.

Copyright, download and reproduction

The contents of these pages are copyright © The Deer Initiative. You may download whole guides to a local hard disk and print whole guides for your personal use. You may also re-copy downloaded whole guides or supply printed copies of whole guides to others provided you do not do so for profit.

All logos and graphics are the property of The Deer Initiative (except where stated otherwise). The use of logos and graphics outside of the context of whole guides as presented on this site is not permitted. Written permission must be sought prior to using these items. Public showing of the website is not allowed without written permission of The Deer Initiative.

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News

The first England and Wales Deer Best practice guides were published in January 2008. More guides will be added so keep checking the site regularly, the complete guide set should be available by September 2008.

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Background

Wild deer management and issues arising from the presence of deer encompass a wide range of sometimes highly technical or involved subjects. It can be difficult for even experienced deer practitioners to keep abreast of developments.

The purpose of the Best Practice project is provide a single source of information to help make practitioners aware of:

  • the aims of deer related tasks, and procedures for carrying them out effectively or better, based on best current information,
  • the procedures that are required to safeguard personal and public safety and animal welfare,
  • legal requirements

By September 2008 it is hoped to have up to 80 separate guides available. The guides should help practitioners to feel that when following the guidance they are acting humanely, responsibly and effectively, carrying out their activities in a rational and considered way based on the best current information. The guides are compatible with the Deer Commission for Scotland Best Practice guides, are designed to support the Deer Stalking Certificate levels 1 and 2 and to reflect the National Occupational Standards where applicable.

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Contributors

The following organisations as well as a number of individuals will have been involved in the development of the guides. Those marked * form the core Working Group which meets regularly and is responsible for steering the project and final approval of guides.


Forest Research

Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust
Health & Safety Executive
Highways Agency
Humane Slaughter Association
LANTRA
National Association of AONBs
National Farmer's Union
National Gamekeepers Organisation*
National Forest Company
National Trust
Natural England*
RSPCA
Union of Countryside Workers
Woodland Trust

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