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Story: Deer and deer farming

Deer – the menace

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Deer, together with chamois and tahr, thrived and multiplied rapidly in New Zealand’s predator-free alpine and forest environments. This 1959 video shows bands of deer in the high country of the Southern Alps.

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Reference: Mountain lands in jeopardy. National Film Unit, 1959

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Ken Drew, Deer and deer farming – Introduction and impact of deer, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/video/15797/deer-the-menace (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Ken Drew, published 1 March 2009.