Benjamin Steps Down as Wildscape Deer Management Deer Lead
After several years of dedicated service, Benjamin is stepping down as Wildscape’s Deer Lead. During his time in the role, he helped strengthen collaboration across estates in Sussex, connect partn...
Supporting the Local Venison Market Starts With Doing It Properly
A stronger local venison market depends on more than demand. It depends on smaller deer stalkers understanding food business registration, large game hygiene certificates, hunter’s exemption, trace...
Ten Years of Change: What Seasonal Recovery Looks Like After Deer Management
What does ten years of applied deer management actually look like on the ground? This article explores seasonal change, woodland recovery, missed opportunities, and the long-term effort required to...
Green Finance For Deer and the Warning We Were Given Long Ago
Green finance and deer management can no longer be treated as separate conversations. This article explores why estates need to think seriously about nature markets, natural capital, professional d...
Newly Passed PDS1, DSC1 and Looking for Permission: Five Useful Tips
A practical guide for newly passed DSC1 stalkers looking to secure deer stalking permission, covering realistic expectations, how to avoid damaging your reputation, why shadowing experienced stalke...
When Deer Management Starts Looking Like Site Security
One of the parts of deer management the public rarely sees is how often wider site issues begin to interfere with the job. From trespassers and unattended campfires to antisocial behaviour, litter ...
Deer Fencing Is Only as Good as the Thinking Behind It
Effective deer fencing is about far more than fence height and route. This article explains why good deer fence design must consider escape routes, funnels, traps, maintenance, internal deer pressu...
Ticks, Lyme Disease, and Why This Time of Year Deserves More Respect
Ticks and Lyme disease are an increasing concern for anyone spending time on deer ground, woodland rides, rough grass and edge habitat. This article explains why this time of year matters, where ti...
Nocpix NITE D70R Prototype Review - Field Test
The Nocpix NITE D70R is a promising day and night digital scope with outstanding image clarity, a comfortable viewing experience, and strong real-world performance in the field. This honest Nocpix ...
Deer Habitat Impact Assessments in Sussex Woodland
A good habitat impact assessment in Sussex woodland is not about counting deer, but about reading what deer are doing to regeneration, coppice, understorey and palatable species. This article expla...
The Stalking Show 2026 - Good Company, Honest Conversations, and a Few Thoughts Worth Keeping
Our Stalking Show review looks beyond the spectacle to the parts that actually matter: practical venue layout, the people worth speaking to, honest conversations with brands including Blaser UK, GM...
PDS1, PDS2, DSC1 or DSC2? Why Choice and Learning Environment Matter
We now offer PDS1 and PDS2 assessment on clients’ own land, giving candidates a calmer, more realistic setting in which to demonstrate field competence. This article explains why familiar ground ca...
HIKMICRO Habrok HH35L: A Working Field Review
There is a difference between kit that looks impressive in a retailer’s cabinet and kit that earns its place after a couple of months of real use. Most people in our line of work know that differen...
To Thread or Not to Thread: Why Tight Woodland Shots Demand More Restraint, Not More Confidence
To thread or not to thread is not a question of confidence, it is a question of welfare and judgement. This article explores why woodland deer shots through cover carry greater risk than many shoot...
Five Hours to Get Them Out: Why Extraction in Lowland England Deserves More Respect
Deer extraction in lowland England is often harder than people realise, especially when recovering fallow deer in wet woodland with poor access, ancient ditches, coppice and manual drag routes. Thi...
Deer Behaviour, Pressure, and Why More Effort Does Not Always Mean Better Results
CWS1 is rightly orientated toward practical work on the ground and the reduction of deer impacts, but any funded system carries the same temptation. People drift toward what is easiest to count. Ho...
Why Time Out Matters, and What the Countryside Still Gives Back
Taking time out from the daily grind matters more than most people realise, and deer management offers a rare chance to reconnect with nature in a real, grounded way. This article explores how time...
Muntjac in Sussex: The Deer You Don’t See Can Still Ruin a Woodland
Muntjac in Sussex are becoming a major threat to small woodland recovery, often going unnoticed until browsing damage is already structural. This article explains why Sussex woodland owners need to...
Darting Deer on Public-Facing Ground: Why Partnership and Standards Matter
Deer darting and live capture are not a replacement for deer control, but in public-facing settings they can be the most defensible, welfare-led solution. This article unpacks a recent roe buck rel...
Wildlife Crime, Welfare, and the Quiet Reality of Deer Management
Wildlife crime and injured deer are a hidden but real part of countryside life, and professional deer management plays a wider role than most people realise. This article explains how deer managers...
CWS1 is changing the reality of full-time deer management by funding what actually delivers woodland outcomes: consistent, professional deer control, evidence-led monitoring, and safer working syst...
When Things Go Wrong: First Aid in the Field, and Why It Has to Be Part of Deer Work
A field first aid incident after a shot deer highlights why first aid, lone working protocols and risk assessments must be part of deer stalking and professional deer management. Learn why “last ga...
DEFRA Deer Impacts Policy Statement 2026: What It Really Means
England’s new Deer Impacts Policy Statement (published 20 February 2026) is a clear shift towards evidence-led deer management, linking wild deer impacts to woodland regeneration failure, biodivers...
Mammal Management on Airports and Aerodromes: The Quiet Work That Keeps Airfields Safe
On many UK airports and aerodromes, mammals are the problem that quietly grows until it becomes impossible to ignore. Deer, foxes, hares, rabbits and badgers can turn a routine operating day into a...