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News Articles: deer

Taxidermied deer mounted on a wall at a deer processer in Mansfield.

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  • Environment

Georgia has been preparing for so-called zombie disease in deer. Here’s how the state's responding

The state Department of Natural Resources said it is at this point not concerned about chronic wasting disease, which is fatal and affects deer and other cervids, outside of Lanier and Berrien where it was detected last week. But there is some new guidance. 

January 27, 2025
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
 A white-tailed buck in Gwinnett County is among the 1 million of its deer species roaming Georgia’s woodlands, farmlands and urban areas. Hank Ohme/Georgia Wildlife Federation

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  • Animals

Deadly deer disease case confirmed in S. Georgia by state Department of Natural Resources

The Georgia Department of Natural Resources confirmed Thursday that a hunter-harvested deer has tested positive for the state’s first identified case of the deadly Chronic Wasting Disease.

January 24, 2025
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By:
  • Stanley Dunlap
Deer crossing the road.

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  • News

Fresh & free-range: if you run over an animal, is it yours to eat in GA? What the law says

Times are tough lately, so if you come across the opportunity to eat free, you take it, right? If you hit an animal on the road or witness one meet their end, you could be bringing home a fresh dinner. That’s right, we’re talking about eating roadkill. But first, is it even legal? Here’s what to know.

December 12, 2024
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By:
  • Chelsea Madden
A man stands next to a truck with a Georgia Hunters for the Hungry logo, and eight hundred pounds of venison.

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  • Environment

Georgia nonprofit helps deer hunters provide enough meat for 500,000 people in need this season

Thanks to a partnership with the Department of Natural Resources, the Georgia Wildlife Federation’s Hunters for the Hungry program has provided nearly half a million meals' worth of venison to people in need.

November 22, 2024
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By:
  • Chase McGee

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  • Science

Deer are expanding north. That could hurt some species like boreal caribou

Wildlife ecologists have seen white-tailed deer expanding their range in North America over many decades. And since the early-2000s these deer have moved north into the boreal forests of western Canada. These forests are full of spruce and pine trees, sandy soil and freezing winters with lots of snow. They can be a harsh winter wonderland. And ecologists haven't known whether a warmer climate in these forests or human land development might be driving the deer north. A recent study tries to disentangle these factors – and finds that a warming climate seems to play the most significant role in the movement of deer.

Read more in the journal Global Change Biology.

Curious about more wildlife news? Email us at shortwave@npr.org.

May 03, 2024
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By:
  • Regina G. Barber,
  • Emily Kwong,
  • and 3 more
The Key deer is the smallest deer species in North America. The deer live only in the low-lying Florida Keys. They are considered federally endangered, with an estimated population of around 1,000.

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  • Climate

A tiny deer and rising seas: How far should people go to save an endangered species?

The Key deer is losing the only place it lives, raising uncomfortable questions for the people tasked with keeping endangered species alive.

November 12, 2023
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By:
  • Nathan Rott and
  • Ryan Kellman
Farmer Neal Lee stands in a soybean field on his family farm in Dawson, where they also grow peanuts and cotton. White-tailed deer are more likely to eat row crops farther away from the road, where the plants are ankle height.

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  • Economy

Deer are eating through Georgia crops. For farmers, it’s the latest cost to worry about

Damage from white-tailed deer can cause millions of dollars worth of damage to the state’s most profitable crops.

 

November 01, 2023
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
Georgia in Play 10/27

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  • News

Georgia in Play: Georgia's abortion law, voting rights under review and why farmers want more hunters

This week on Georgia in Play, host Leah Fleming takes a look at two major pieces of policy in Georgia — our six-week abortion ban, and an omnibus voting bill that critics say limit access for disenfranchised voters. 

October 27, 2023
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By:
  • Leah Fleming and
  • Chase McGee
deer

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  • News

State wildlife officials prepare for deadly deer disease ahead of Georgia hunting season

Georgia conservationists are putting hunters on high alert about the possibility of a deadly deer disease crossing the state border after the discovery of a case in north Florida. 

July 11, 2023
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  • Stanley Dunlap
An adult male whitetail deer

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  • News

Sandy Springs lacks authority to ban bow hunting

The Sandy Springs City Council learned that municipalities cannot regulate bow hunting despite pleas from residents who complained about trespassing hunters and fears for their children and pets.

December 27, 2022
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By:
  • Bob Pepalis
A white tail deer fawn stands in the road, Sept. 10, 2021, in Freeport, Maine.

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  • National

The end of daylight saving time means an uptick in vehicles crashing into deer

In a new study, researchers found that deer-vehicle collisions peaked in October and November, partly due to both daylight saving time and deer mating season.

November 04, 2022
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By:
  • Ayana Archie
A new study suggests that white-tailed deer, like the one here, could carry the virus SARS-CoV-2 indefinitely and spread it back to humans periodically.

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  • Global Health

How SARS-CoV-2 in American deer could alter the course of the global pandemic

Scientists have evidence that SARS-CoV-2 is circulating in white-tailed deer in the U.S. They say the findings could essentially dash any hopes of eliminating the virus in the U.S. — and the world.

November 11, 2021
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By:
  • Michaeleen Doucleff
In 2015, Trapper Dan Eaton prepares to release a female coyote, wearing a GPS tracking collar, after working with scientists to include her in a three year study of coyotes in the Deep South.

Seeing Coyotes Everywhere? New Science Explains Why

Three years ago, a coyote with ice blue eyes lay stock still as scientists took her blood, weighed her, and fixed a GPS collar around her neck on a dirt...

January 08, 2020
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
A female coyote caught and measured near Augusta for a study of coyotes in the South leaps as it is released in 2015.

As Coyotes Change The South, The South Is Changing Them

It's taken about a hundred years for coyotes to move in and fully saturate every corner of the South. As coyotes settled in, they began putting predator...

April 25, 2019
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
Edwin Pierre-Lewis, a graduate student at the University of Georgia, uses a buck call as he hunts deer west of Athens. He learned to hunt as part of the Field to Fork program and has become a mentor, now teaching others how to hunt.

Turning To 'Locavores' To Train New Hunters

There's no shortage of deer in the wild and semi-wild places in Georgia. But as time marches on, the people that hunt deer are growing increasingly rare...

January 04, 2019
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By:
  • Samantha Max
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