The trouble is that the average UK inhabitant has no idea that Britain is a totally managed landscape and has been for several hundred years. There is no true wilderness left on this island, there are too many people and not enough space for that. Areas such as Exmoor, Dartmoor, Snowdonia and the Scottish Highlands are not wilderness as people living in bigger countries would understand it. They survive as wild areas simply because they are managed. Deer have no natural predators in the UK other than man. Leave them alone and they will breed until they starve or become a total nuisance. Muntjac deer are becoming a real road hazard where I live.

Unfortunately Joe Public is so separated from this reality they think that shooting deer is cruel and unnecessary, they just can't comprehend that the alternative is a slow death from starvation and sport hunting is totally beyond their comprehension. The media, of course, just encourage this Bambism.