Deer Management Round Table – Agenda
10:30 – 12:30, Wednesday 2 April 2025
NatureScot Battleby Office, Auditorium
10:00 | Tea & Coffee available | |
10:30 – 10:35 | Welcome and introductions | Colin MacPhail – NatureScot |
10:35 – 10:45 | Minutes of last meeting and actions | Colin MacPhail – NatureScot |
10:45 – 10:55 | Update from Strategic Deer Board | Grant Moir – CNPA/ Donald Fraser – NatureScot |
10:55 – 11:25 | Natural Environment Bill – deer provisions | Brodie Wilson – Scottish Government |
11:25 – 11:45 | Public perceptions of deer – presentation & discussion | Jessica Frater Darragh Hare, Oxford University |
11:45 – 12:00 | Uist tick-borne disease project; update & presentation | David Muir – Scottish Crofting Federation |
12:00 – 12:20 | NatureScot update on projects & regulation | Donald Fraser/ Paul Roberts/ Jamie Hammond – NatureScot |
12:20 – 12:30 | AOB | Colin MacPhail |
12:30 | Date of next meeting (tbc) & close | Colin MacPhail |
12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch |
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