Fellow's Profile
Mike Daniels
Fellow's Profile
Mike Daniels
Can community hunting deliver sustainable deer management for biodiversity, climate and communities?
Fellowship
- Themes
- Focus
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Overcoming barriers to developing community hunting in the UK to deliver sustainable deer management
- Countries
- Fellowship year
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2026
- Locality
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Scotland
Contact
Biography
I am a researcher at the Centre for Mountain Studies at the University of the Highlands and Islands, where I also teach Sustainable Deer Management. I have worked in land, policy, research and education for a variety of public and third sector organisations in Scotland in the areas of conservation, land management and deer management.
Delivering sustainable deer management is key to delivering social and environmental justice. At the moment, deer management in the UK is focused on private benefits for private landowners at the expense of public goods such as woodland regeneration and peatland restoration for climate change mitigation.
Around the world, community hunting is a more common form of deer management and I am seeking to understand and overcome the barriers to developing community hunting in the UK as a way to manage deer more sustainably for the benefits of biodiversity, climate and community. I am looking to learn from community hunting models in Norway, Slovenia, Spain and the eastern USA. I will then bring best practices back to the UK to help develop pilot schemes.
Disclaimer
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Disclaimer
All Reports are copyright © the author. The moral right of the author has been asserted. The views and opinions expressed by any Fellow are those of the Fellow and not of the Churchill Fellowship or its partners, which have no responsibility or liability for any part of them.
