Tasmania’s wild deer population is on the rise — with many calling for better population control

At the western edge of Connorville, one of Tasmania’s oldest and largest farms, the terrain rises sharply into the World Heritage area of the Great Western Tiers.

On the property’s plains near Cressy, in the state’s northern midlands, more than 20,000 sheep and 2,000 cattle graze.

But the livestock are now having to compete for space and food with an increasing number of wild fallow deer.

“We certainly have a deer problem here at Connorville, and at…