Managing deer for climate and nature: consultation analysis

Abbreviations and terminology

In the tables throughout this report, ‘n’ at the top of columns indicates the number of respondents in each group or sub-group, while ‘%’ indicates the percentage of respondents in each group or sub-group.

The following abbreviations appear throughout this report:

DMNRO: Deer Management Nature Restoration Order

DSC1 / DSC2: Deer Stalking Certificate Level 1 and Deer Stalking Certificate Level 2

DWG: the Deer Working Group, whose report (published in February 2020) made a range of recommendations for modernising Scotland’s approach to wild deer management.

FLS: Forestry and Land Scotland

VDL: Venison Dealers Licence

Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank Simon Anderson (Simon Anderson Consulting) for his help in quality-assuring the report of this analysis.