Unwanted Deer Population Swells on Big Island

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Call in the hunters? In New Jersey, state officials resorted to giving female deer birth control. Here’s a look at the Big Island’s deer problem.

Our Landblog reports

From the Associated Press:

Officials estimate that there are 100 deer on the northern and southern ends of the Big Island. A government-funded group is leading efforts to get rid of them before they breed.

“They didn’t get here by themselves, so the people who brought them over did so and have done it many times,” said Jan Schipper, the group’s project manager.

People have reported seeing deer on the Big Island for a while, but it wasn’t until a motion-sensor camera captured a photo of one last year that their presence was confirmed.

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Photo shows axis deer on Maui: 

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