Best Practice
Steering Group:

Welcome to Best Practice Guidance on the Management of Wild Deer in Scotland. A new revised set of 74 Best Practice guides was published in July 08. The guides have been developed by Scotland’s deer sector to provide you with the best information available on wild deer management in a format that is easy to access.

Best Practice Guidance is now available to download free of charge on this site. Laminated hard copies of the guides are also available for a one-off subscription fee of £15. Subscribers to the series will automatically receive new and revised guides as they are developed as well as information on up and coming Best Practice events.

To subscribe please download the subscription form below and return to SNH, along with a cheque or postal order.

subscription form(PDF 58KB) or call us on 01463 725000

Stop Press: The next Demonstration Event will be at Drumlanrig Castle, Thornhill, Dumfries-shire on the 26th and 27th of October. Session details and booking form will be posted as soon as details are finalised in the next week or so.

At the heart of the guides is the need for clarity on the law, along with three central aims; safeguarding public safety, ensuring food safety and taking full account of deer welfare. Public confidence in these three issues is essential if wild deer management in Scotland is to maintain the respected of a wider audience at home and abroad. The guides are dynamic and practitioners are encouraged to debate and share ideas to help develop future editions. Revision will also be made in light of new research, changes to policy and new legislation .

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