Huge rise in Scotland's deer cull needed to protect land, says report

Experts call for controversial measures to control numbers, estimated at up to 1 million

An expert report has called for hundreds of thousands of deer to be culled in Scotland to deal with an unsustainable surge in numbers.

The report estimates that up to 1 million wild deer could be roaming Scotland, nearly double some previous estimates, causing significant damage to the landscape and hampering calls to increase tree cover to tackle the climate crisis.