Deer ranges

[hugearm]

hi everybody

Does anone no where any deer ranges in Australia are as Im doing an assignment on feral animals at school and i chose to do deer. And i need to have a map and shade where they live and i dont no where any live sept red deer in the Brisbane valley.

thanks

[jindydiver]

Go down to your library and search for a paper called

"The liberation, distribution, abundance and management of wild deer in Australia”
By Andrew Moriarty


Abstract
Deer species (fallow, red, sambar, chital, rusa and hog deer) have formed wild populations in Australian habitats ranging from arid woodland to rainforest and are a growing management issue. Data were obtained via an Australia-wide land-manager survey that collected information on the liberation, distribution, abundance and management of wild deer in Australia. It is estimated that there are 218 wild deer herds in Australia with 7% of these herds originating from acclimatisation society releases, 35% from deer farm escapes/releases and 58% from translocations (deliberate releases). On average, herds released by acclimatisation societies are estimated to be 107 years old, herds that have escaped from (or been released from) deer farms are 9 years old, and transplanted herds are 6 years old. It is estimated that Australia currently has 200 000 wild deer, with 85% of these deer originally released by acclimatisation societies, 6% through escapes/releases from deer farms and 9% by translocation. Poor knowledge of the impacts of wild deer by land managers and the absence of consistent legislation governing the management of farmed and wild deer are factors that have exacerbated deliberate releases of deer and the escape of deer from farms. Management strategies for wild deer in Australia need to be developed by land managers to address the escape and release of deer from farms, the illegal translocation of deer into the wild and the management of existing wild deer herds.



Beware though, his conclusions are based on the data he received from the surveys and so is subject to the bias of the people surveyed. Your teacher will be able to help you with interpreting the paper.
His references should give you plenty of good leads to other info too.

Oh, if you can't find it I have it on PDF

[bowriver]

Good luck with that mate. That sounds like a good read Jindy.

[benhohnke]

jindy you left out sika deer lol
ps. there are deer in a 200km radius of murrundi where they got out

[jindydiver]

jindy you left out sika deer lol
ps. there are deer in a 200km radius of murrundi where they got out

I didn't leave out anything, that passage is the abstract for the paper I was referring to, and it plainly says so.

I am not aware of any sika deer in Australia, and people with a hell of a lot more knowledge on the subject than me tell me there are none here. The government is right now calling for submissions into why they shouldn't just remove the sika from the allowable imports list as they are not of interest to Australian agriculture and there are concerns that if they were allowed in they would just become a pest species.

If in fact you have sika deer in your area, could you give us some info on them, like

The farm where they were held before their escape, and

The date that they were first noticed to have escaped.

That would help people who are submitting that the sika should be left on the list to argue against their removal on the grounds that they are already here.

[benhohnke]

well jindy according to the game council there is sika and wapiti in australia but i have know idea where they are.

[jindydiver]

well jindy according to the game council there is sika and wapiti in australia but i have know idea where they are.

Who at the game council told you there were sika in Australia?

[benhohnke]

it was in there monthly newsletter

[jindydiver]

it was in there monthly newsletter

What month?

[benhohnke]

sorry it was in some info books they had at agquip

[jindydiver]

sorry it was in some info books they had at agquip

Mate
I think you are mistaken
There are no sika in Australia and so they are not listed with the game council as a game animal.

[benhohnke]

opps i could of swarn they were i probably got it out of wild deer magazine :oops:

[jindydiver]

Maybe you did mate
NZ is swarming with the buggers :wink: