BAMBI-NO,

TALK ABOUT bucking a trend.

After years of reckless reproduction, the Staten Island deer population has dropped 8%, city officials told the Daily News — crediting an oft-mocked program to perform vasectomies on male deer.

“There were a lot of skeptics,” Anthony DeNicola, the wildlife biologist hired by the city to run the program. “And there was quite a bit of jest at our expense. But the data and the results today are what they are, and they show that this concept can work, and it’s working well.”

Two years into the plan — and after the first mating season during which some of the bucks had been snipped — DeNicola’s nonprofit White Buffalo counted 1,884 deer this January. That’s down from 2,053 his company counted, using the same technique, in 2017.

And the number of baby Bambis appearing on Staten Island has decreased by more than half, DeNicola said.

“The big test for this whole experiment is how many fawns are there relative to does,” said DeNicola, who noted Staten Island is the first area to use vasectomies for male deer as a control method on a large scale.

When DeNicola counted in January 2017 — shortly

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