What do you picture when you think about deer in European forests? Many people imagine a character like Bambi — big eyes, tall ears, and…
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An Indian, a German and a Dutch woman went on a mission: deploying cameras in the forest. What they didn’t know was that as soon as they crossed a barrier and were driving on the unpaved forest roads, they would get questioned a lot. Because what were three largely foreign women doing in the middle of the forest with a car? They don’t look like foresters, nor like hunters, they must be lost or…?
The responses to the sight of us are in fact polarising. While some are kindly offering their help to manoeuvre us out of the forest back onto the road, others perceive us as disturbance to wildlife or their property, not hesitating to take our pictures and threaten to take legal or less official measures to drive us out.
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With EFI’s new “Deer observer” project, funded by the Velux Foundation, we aim to understand and communicate the relationship between deer density, natural regeneration, and stakeholder perceptions. Our overall objective is to inspire long-term change by initiating a dialogue between the different stakeholders involved in the deer-forestry-conflict.
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