Sika you will find
Jul 29, 2020
4 minutes
When I say ‘invasive non-native species’ the first thing to spring to your mind may be mink, the American signal crayfi sh or Rhododendron ponticum.
It probably isn’t Coco Chanel. A keen angler and worthy of more Shooting Times column space than I can offer, Chanel unknowingly has had a small role to play in the arrival into Sutherland of one of the most fascinating, resilient, prolific, challenging and tenacious nonnatives in Britain today: sika deer.
The 2nd Duke of Westminster began his affair with Coco Chanel in the 1920s. After spending time in Sutherland on his newly acquired Reay estate — where Chanel was reported by Winston
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