In the deer town of Nara they decided to shoot deer (6 photos)

I have already written about the city of Nara, where sacred deer live. They are impudent there, they can get into a bag and engage in racketeering for the sake of a tasty treat. But that’s not why they decided to shoot them, because they grew so numerous that they began to threaten local farmers.





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Reservation area for deer

All the deer will be driven to Nara Park, where thousands of tourists come to pet, photograph and feed them. The place is truly unique, the animals are very friendly.

But if deer enter the buffer zone around the park, they will be shot. Because there are so many deer that they get into farmers' fields and destroy them.



You won't be able to feed the whole herd with crackers alone, you have to understand!

Another number of deer left in the care of a local animal welfare organization suddenly found themselves abandoned - emaciated and even starving. People simply abandoned looking after them; a total of 270 animals were left to starve in enclosures!

In general, it was decided to kill them out of humanism.

The plan to kill the sacred deer was published last Monday, but not that it shocked the population very much. In fact, up to 180 deer are already slaughtered in Nara every year after leaving the “sacred place.”



When they say that there are a lot of deer in Nara, you may just not realize how many!

Some are killed because of old age and illness, some because they have gone too far, and it is not convenient to look after them there. Some are still caught and sent to nurseries, but this time the government said that nurseries are not made of rubber.

Business on reindeer

Nara is full of stalls selling rice crackers, a tasty and deer-safe snack. Her animals literally beg from passers-by. The proceeds from the sale were used to maintain the shelter, feed and treat the animals.

At the same time, the deer in Nara have become so impudent that they gore, bite and get angry at tourists who are in no hurry to feed them.



Hungry deer have gathered around the cracker shop and are waiting. There's not enough for everyone

They will tell you how many deer they plan to shoot when they finish counting the herd.

“We are simply looking for a balance between the natural world and the needs of the local population, the tourism industry and so on,” the official said. There won’t be a “deer paradise”, there won’t be a huge tourist flow, it’s also important not to go too far here.



Compare Japanese sacred deer and cows from India, do you feel the difference? but because the Japanese are shooting the population

Although it’s still a rather strange decision, first they fed them, bred them, and now they’ve come to their senses and let’s shoot. Maybe we should have put our heads together before they started dying in the overcrowded nurseries?

And if they decided to shoot them, they would just send them for meat and make burgers. Yet deer meat is eaten in many cultures, including the Japanese. And it doesn’t matter that they were sacred, they could starve the sacred deer.



This is soba with venison and fern, a Japanese dish

As you remember, Japan has already declared war on squirrels. But this was an invasive species of squirrel brought from the main continents to Japan. But this is the first time they have waged a big war against their sacred deer.