What funding has been allocated to further controlling deer numbers across the state and particularly in areas of your responsibility in our protected lands?
I do not know if your department informed you of this, minister, but this year feral deer have been photographed grazing on the critically endangered miena cider gum.
The State of the Environment report, which was issued a decade late after two statutory deadlines were not met by the government.
Media reports indicate that about 711 dears have been shot to far in the information that went out from parks prior to that eradication exercise.
Minister, you have been in your role long enough now to know, and you would have talked to many farmers, what a devastation ferrel deer are to farming.
Feral deer are out of control in Tasmania and impacting on both farmers and the landscape. It's time for the Liberals to take action.
The public was told by DPIPWE that removing the partially protected status of deer in Tasmania under the Nature Conservation Act was not up for discussion.
Staff from the DPIPWE today refused to give evidence to tomorrow’s Senate Committee hearings into the impact of feral deer on farmers and the landscape.
A recent survey of Tasmanian farmers showed strong support for reclassifying deer as a feral pest in Tasmania.
Minister Barnett is failing farmers and the environment.