NOTICE OF AUTUMN 2019 MEETING
The 2019 Autumn Meeting of the Deer Management Group will be held on 21st October 2019 at 2.30 pm at Culligran House, Glen Strathfarrar. Please let the Secretary know if you would like to attend or if there is anything you would like discussed at the meeting.
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All those working in and visiting the countryside should be aware of tick bites and the risks of contracting Lyme Disease. Downloadable Leaflets are available on-line.
Read MoreChronic Wasting Disease
Chronic Wasting Disease, (CWD), also known as Cervid Wasting Disease, is a highly infectious, fatal disease which has devastated some populations of wild and farmed deer in North America. CWD has very recently been diagnosed in Scandinavia in a reindeer and also in moose. The risk of CWD entering the UK is therefore likely to have increased now the disease is present in Europe. CWD is caused by a prion, a mutant folded protein, and belongs to the same group of diseases as scrapie, which affects sheep and goats, and “mad cow disease”, (bovine spongiform encephalopathy or “BSE”). This group of...
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