Letter of the Day Warning about deer

THE EDITOR, Madam:

CONCERNING THE Sunday Gleaner of December 17, 2000 where there was a story on the growing deer population in Portland, the newspaper should alert its readers to the potential for an ecological disaster from an alien species.

In the absence of natural predators, the deer population will keep on exploding, unless control measures are put in place. The deer have the ability and the will to strip an area almost free of vegetation, and as they encroach on areas occupied by humans, there will be the predictable serious deer/car and deer/house confrontations.

It is not a pretty prospect, so we do not want to "wait and see".

I am etc.,

KEITH HIBBERT

E-mail:

eurekavil@cwjamaica.com

Anchovy P.O.,

St. James

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