According to Japan's "Asahi Shimbun" reported on the 27th, in recent years, the sika deer in the Izu area of Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, have been flooded, causing harm to agriculture and forest ecology. In order to control the local sika deer population, a local school plans to open a "hunting discipline". Japan plans to set up a hunting discipline to control the size of the sika deer herd, shizuoka Prefecture Nature Conservation Department said that in order to maintain the balance of the local ecosystem, the size of the sika deer population in the Izu region should be maintained at about 5,000. But the Nature Conservation Department calculates that as of spring 2021, the Izu region is home to about 25,300 sika deer, which nibble on grass roots and bark in the mountains, causing ecological problems such as soil erosion and causing damage to surrounding crops.
Source: People's Daily Overseas Edition - Overseas Network