Global campaign ensures deer is saved from cull
A deer at risk of being culled because of the damage it was causing to allotments has been given a reprieve following a worldwide petition.
More than 162,000 people from as far away as Mongolia, New Zealand and the USA signed a petition demanding that Oki, a 4ft native roe deer, should be spared the bullet.
Town councillors at Wokingham, Berks, were debating whether to call in a sniper. But a team of allotment holders, helped by Colin George, a town councillor, formed a cordon to drive it away and secured the area with mesh.
Kate Jakubiszyn, 38, who organised the petition said: “I generally feel that there is not enough compassion for animals in the world.”