Wild red deer in Canterbury's High Country. OPINION: Recent news of deer bykill from 1080 at Molesworth begs the real question – why were the pest species' numbers allowed to get so high? Kyle Bland This Marlborough Rock Daisy is threatened by browsing deer at Molesworth. Given the farming operation only runs up to 10,000 cattle, deer could have been at nearly a third of cattle numbers. When I've approached DOC about the impacts of cattle on Molesworth they say that it's hard to differentiate that from deer, given their high numbers.

Source: Stuff April 08, 2019 16:52 UTC