Knock down ginger

Speaking at a symposium about the possible spread of muntjac to the north-east of England, the British Deer Society’s scientific adviser, Dr Alastair Ward, revealed that if he were to be dragged out of retirement in 20 years’ time and asked to give an update on invasive deer species, it would not be muntjac but Chinese water deer that he would be expecting to talk about.

In east Suffolk, the growth in the water deer population has been exponential. They first appeared in the river valleys of the Broads of Norfolk and Suffolk and from there they spread south along the Suffolk coast and up from the floodplains to the high ground of