Japan’s deer inhabitants explodes

SAPPORO, Oct 12 (Information On Japan) –
A document variety of accidents and extreme agricultural injury in northern Japan are the results of a flourishing deer inhabitants.

Police are warning residents that deer, which inhabit all of Hokkaido, can probably soar onto close by roads and sidewalks.

Two years in the past, a herd of deer ventured onto Shinkansen tracks, inflicting practice operations to be suspended for about 7 hours. The variety of deer-vehicle accidents has additionally reached a document excessive of 4,480 circumstances.

Agricultural injury is extreme. Whereas roaming grazing land for cattle, deer are selective, consuming solely the scrumptious components, leaving the cows with meals low in vitamins and wealthy in fiber.”

Deer that ravage pastures and crops are thought-about pests, inflicting about 150 million yen in injury yearly, based on a veteran hunter in Akkeshi-cho, Hokkaido.

Whereas deer hunters are strengthening extermination efforts, new utilization strategies are additionally rising. The Kushiro Metropolis Zoo began utilizing deer meat for feeding tigers and lions. The Amur tiger is a pure predator of deer within the wild, they usually particularly like deer meat, based on a Kushiro Metropolis Zoo specialist.

Not solely meat but additionally deer leather-based is turning into fashionable. Deer leather-based, also known as “Kashmir of leather-based,” has gained important consideration from the style trade lately.