Tasmania's fallow deer population has exploded according to results from a recent survey, leading the state's peak farming body to declare it is on the trajectory to be "the next rabbit".

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The state government has released findings from a 2024 aerial survey, which showed the fallow deer population had increased by 30 per cent over five years to reach an estimate of more than 71,000 across Tasmania's landscape.

Farmers, hunters and conservationists want the fallow deer to be declared a pest.

Fallow deer are partially pro

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