Record number of roe deer killed by traffic

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In the hunting year 2016/17, almost 5 100 roe deer were killed by traffic. This is an increase of 800 from the previous hunting year.

Registered mortality of cervids apart from regular hunting totalled 10 800, according to new figures from the statistics Non-harvest mortality of cervids. This represents an increase of 21 per cent compared to the previous hunting year. In total, 6 700 cervids were killed by cars and 670 by trains.

Figure 1. Roe deer, moose and red deer killed by car or train

Roe deer Moose Red deer
1990/ 91 2065 1210 201
1991/92 2427 1324 284
1992/ 93 3327 2048 366
1993/ 94 4007 2481 461
1994/ 95 3057 1757 374
1995/96 3045 1650 383
1996/ 97 3513 2010 515
1997/98 3091 1582 443
1998/99 3259 1886 488
1999/ 00 3118 1921 543
2000/01 3313 1968 461
2001/02 3350 1945 611
2002/ 03 3579 2602 540
2003/04 3371 2244 629
2004/05 3752 1762 701
2005/ 06 3916 1913 635
2006/07 3552 1971 737
2007/08 4029 2094 873
2008/ 09 4300 2373 808
2009/10 4367 2168 741
2010/11 4059 2237 732
2011/ 12 3351 1668 741
2012/13 4003 1724 684
2013/14 3784 1358 743
2014/ 15 3936 1439 781
2015/ 16 4303 1355 639
2016/ 17 5090 1354 873

More than 400 wild reindeer killed

In the hunting season 2016/17, the number of wild reindeer killed by other reasons was more than 400. Almost 350 of these were killed by lightning.

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