{"id":477330,"date":"2026-02-13T12:41:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T12:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/477330\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T12:41:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T12:41:10","slug":"is-it-time-tassie-declared-wild-deer-a-pest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/477330\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it time Tassie declared wild deer a pest?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They might look like Bambi but they&#8217;re making a big mess.<\/p>\n<p>There are tens of thousands of fallow deer trampling across the landscape.<\/p>\n<p>Some reckon keeping their partially protected status is a weird colonial hangover, they were introduced as a game animal for recreational hunting almost two centuries ago.<\/p>\n<p>Now they outnumber some of our most iconic species.<\/p>\n<p>Featuring reporter Meg Whitfield.<\/p>\n<p>Get in touch, email us: <a class=\"Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/listen\/programs\/abc-tassiecast\/abc-tassiecast-deer-environment-hunting\/mailto: tassiecast@abc.net.au\" data-component=\"Link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tassiecast@abc.net.au<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ABC TassieCast\u00a0on\u00a0the\u00a0<a class=\"Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/radio.abc.net.au\/help\/apps\" data-component=\"Link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ABC listen app<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They might look like Bambi but they&#8217;re making a big mess. There are tens of thousands of fallow&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[2655,59600,64,63,75,242940,4633,3755,128,2801,59599,9525,338],"class_list":{"0":"post-477330","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-abc","9":"tag-airlie-ward","10":"tag-au","11":"tag-australia","12":"tag-environment","13":"tag-fallow-deer","14":"tag-hunting","15":"tag-podcast","16":"tag-science","17":"tag-tasmania","18":"tag-tassiecast","19":"tag-threatened-species","20":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}