Detection and alert' scheme to be put in place on the N70 on the outskirts of Killarney, where several collisions, including ...

Commonly called the ‘Irish elk,” these deer weighed upwards of 1,500 pounds. This specimen is currently housed at the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin.

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The extinct giant deer was similar in size to the living elk - or moose as it's known in North America - but with much bigger antlers. This species, Alces alces, is the elk after which the Irish elk ...

More than 55,000 deer were killed by hunters in Ireland during the year to February 2022, according to figures released by the Irish Deer Commission.

The fossilised horns and skull of a great Irish deer (Cervus Giganteus Hibernicus) sold for €40,000 at Fonsie Mealy’s ...

Bring back wolves to get Ireland’s exploding deer numbers under control, urges park owner. Diseases and car accidents would be reduced if the ‘apex predators’ were reintroduced, sanctuary owner ...

Encouraging trees is part of this, but high deer densities in Ireland are destroying forests by eating saplings. Top predators can have a big effect on prey, such as deer, ...

The impact of climate change on Ireland's nature is outlined in new research by University College Cork (UCC). Rare native plant species will go extinct and non-native sika deer will increase ...

"The first year that they culled deer in Ireland they killed 5,000 deer, last year they killed 50,000," he says. "Every year, it’s cull, cull, cull and the numbers are still increasing." ...