How diversified stakeholder collaboration can improve landscape-scale deer management

Published on 21 August 2024

This webinar invites reflections and discussion of a report recently published as part of the ExCASES mission, ‘Seeing the Forest for the Deer’, which provides recommendations for how stakeholder collaboration can improve landscape-scale deer management.

‘Seeing the Forest for the Deer’ aimed to support stakeholders in more effectively framing, co-ordinating, and developing shared deer management objectives. The ExCASES team focused on engaging and drawing expertise from a diverse range of stakeholders to understand better what a landscape-scale approach to deer management could look like in practice. They employed a structured, participatory and deliberative process based around a series of workshops in a region where deer management challenges were particularly acute and complex, yet innovative and collective solutions were actively being sought. By including participants who were not traditionally included in deer management (such as food justice and redistribution organisations, local councillors, academics and educators, animal welfare and countryside experts), the aim was to engage a broader range of voices to identify and explore the barriers and opportunities of taking a more holistic and collaborative approach towards landscape-scale management of deer in the UK.

In this webinar, the ExCASES team will be joined by mission participants from the Forestry Commission, National Trust, and University of Exeter, to collectively discuss and reflect on the findings and recommendations from the participatory mission process. There will be the opportunity to ask questions during the Q&A.

Speakers: Clare Bissell, David Bavin, Michelle Twena, Matthew Heard (RENEW, National Trust), Sarah Crowley (RENEW, University of Exeter), David Jam (Forestry Commission), Kristin Waeber (National Trust), Naomi Sykes (University of Exeter)

Visit the RENEW website to read the report.

The registration link will be circulated via email. If you haven’t yet received it and would like to register, please email excases@nationaltrust.org.uk

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