Winnie the Pooh forest culling scheme donates 170,000 meals
The most recent season was the first time the meat had been donated through The Country Food Trust, with almost 70 foodbanks benefiting, the charity said.It has already been agreed that the scheme will continue during the next culling season.Deer are culled as over-grazing can prevent the regeneration of woodland, which can have a knock-on impact on other species - including dormice and butterflies, the charity added.Ms Thomas said there were an estimated two million deer in the country and 750,000 needed to be culled every year in order to keep the population under control.
At the start of 2024, the deer population in Ashdown Forest was estimated to be three-times higher than what it should have been.Ms Thomas said: "By us culling 884 fallow does, it's the equivalent of saving 40,000 deer being on the land in the next 10 years."The charity has been in talks with other locations across the UK to see if similar food donation schemes can be put in place."I'm making sure that the food goes to people in need," Ms Thomas added.
A Peta spokesperson said: "If killing actually reduced animal populations, lethal methods wouldn't be proposed year after year. "Humans owe it to these gentle animals, whose habitat has been taken from them, to find humane, sustainable methods of population control – and that doesn't mean gunning them down and using them as sandwich filler."The Ashdown Forest Trust has been contacted for a comment.
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