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Deer breeding earlier
<strong>It is thought that climate change could be affecting the breeding cycle of Rum's red deer</strong>
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Red deer on the Isle of Rum are breeding earlier every year. The island’s deer population has been monitored since 1953 and is one of the longest-running research projects in the world. It is thought that longer growing seasons in spring and summer have improved the grazing, leading to a change in the breeding cycle.
The rest of this article appears in the 28th August issue of Shooting Times.
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