Building Knowledge
A key goal (Goal 3) of the Victorian Deer Control Strategy is to increase awareness, understanding and capacity to control deer.
Actions in the Strategy's implementation plan include enhancing the sharing of knowledge and best practice management of deer.
A number of research initiatives supported by the Deer Control Program are helping to meet these goals and to assist the deer control community.
Partnering with other jurisdictions and sharing knowledge is also an important ongoing action.
The resources below include outcomes of Deer Control Program investment, information sharing initiatives, as well as links to external information and best practice documents.
Deer in Wallow, Upper Snowy River area (Wildlife Unlimited, 2023).
Victorian Government resources
- Abundance of deer in Victoria: Regional and statewide estimates of deer density and their impact on vegetation (Cally and Ramsey, 2023) (PDF, 12.5 MB)
- Interactive Map (to accompany the Abundance of deer in Victoria report)
- An economic analysis of the impacts of deer in Victoria (Walshe et al., 2023) (PDF, 1.3 MB)
- Guide to deer control in peri-urban areas (DELWP, 2021) (PDF, 378.5 KB)
- Guide to monitoring methods (DELWP, 2021) (PDF, 378.5 KB)
- Guidelines for monitoring deer populations – a Glovebox Guide (Cally and Ramsey 2025)
- Guidelines for monitoring deer populations – ARI Technical Report 378 (Cally and Ramsey 2025)
- Private land GIC Unprotection Order (Declaration of certain wildlife as unprotected wildlife on private property – Wildlife Act 1975) (PDF, 183.0 KB)
- Public land Authorisation Order (Wildlife control of deer on public land order no. 1/2022 – Wildlife Act 1975) (PDF, 456.7 KB)
- Taxonomic Review of Deer Species in Victoria (Rowe, K.C., 2022) (PDF, 286.4 KB)
External resources and useful links
- Australian Deer Association - Deer management
- Deer Scan
- Game Management Authority - Deer
- National Feral Deer Action Plan
- Parks Victoria - Deer
- Parks Victoria partnership with Sporting Shooters Association of Australia
- Pest Smart - Feral deer
- Sporting Shooters Association of Australia - Farmer Assist Program
- Using exclusion fencing to manage feral deer impacts in Australia (Forsyth, 2023) (PDF, 5.3 MB)
- Victorian Deer Control Community Network
- Victoria Police - Public place permits
Page last updated: 04/06/25