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The photos capture the full-blown ecological disaster brought about by the reckless introduction of Fallow Deer to a delicately balanced island ecosystem by a bunch of hunters.

Cres Island as it has existed over hundreds and probably thousands of years is being changed within a few years to a neatly mowed lawn, leaving nothing of its former floristic (and other) diversity but a handful of highly toxic and super-abundant herbs such as Asphodelus and Euphorbia.

Large stretches of the formerly species-rich sheep meadows now look as if maintained by a swarm of mowing robots.... Now add Wild Boar, also introduced by hunters, and you know where Cres is heading to!

Good report framing the general conservation issue in the Mediterranean is available here https://rm.coe.int/16807462b7