Recorded deaths and injuries of deer in the park by unnatural causes
Dear The Royal Parks,
Please can I have figures of deer killed in Royal Parks parks for the past five years, separated by park, for different causes of unnatural death, including, but not limited to, categories such as:
1) Death from litter left in the park
2) Death from motor vehicle collision
3) Death from pedal cycle collision
4) Death from e-scooter collision
5) Death from shooting (e.g. in deer culls)
Please expand these categories to include other causes of death that I have not thought of. Please also include numbers for death where the cause is unknown but thought to be unnatural, and a total number of deaths.
Furthermore, please also provide the number of recorded injuries for each category in an adjacent column if this number is available.
Please provide the data in a spreadsheet format, preferably in .ODS (this can be selected as the file format in Excel).
Yours faithfully,
Jack Fifield
Dear Mr Fifield,
Thank you for your enquiry by email dated 5 October 2021 under The Freedom
of Information Act (FOIA) 2000.
Your enquiry is being dealt with and The Royal Parks will aim to reply to
your enquiry within 20 working days, commencing from 6 October 2021, the
next working day after receipt.
If you have any questions pertaining to this enquiry or require further
assistance, please do not hesitate to contact me. My contact details are
listed below.
Yours sincerely,
Gavin Gribbon | Records Manager | [1][The Royal Parks request email]
[2]www.royalparks.org.uk | The Old Police House | Hyde Park | London | W2
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The Royal Parks are: Bushy Park | The Green Park | Greenwich Park | Hyde
Park | Kensington Gardens | The Regent's Park & Primrose Hill | Richmond
Park | St James's Park
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Dear Mr Fifield,
Please find attached response to your FOI request shown above.
Gavin Gribbon | Records Manager | [1][The Royal Parks request email]
[2]www.royalparks.org.uk | The Old Police House | Hyde Park | London | W2
2UH
The Royal Parks are: Bushy Park | The Green Park | Greenwich Park | Hyde
Park | Kensington Gardens | The Regent's Park & Primrose Hill | Richmond
Park | St James's Park
The Royal Parks is registered in England and Wales: Company Registration
No: 10016100 Registered Charity No: 1172042
Registered Offices: The Old Police House, Hyde Park, London. W2 2UH
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Dear Gavin Gribbon,
Thanks for your response. Please can you disaggregate this data by park (Richmond, Bushy, Greenwich, etc.) as stated in the original request.
Yours sincerely,
Jack Fifield
Dear Mr Fifield,
I do apologise, will try and separate figures and resend.
Gavin Gribbon | Records Manager | 0300 061 2002 |
[1][email address]
[2]www.royalparks.org.uk | The Old Police House | Hyde Park | London | W2
2UH
The Royal Parks are: Bushy Park | The Green Park | Greenwich Park | Hyde
Park | Kensington Gardens | The Regent's Park & Primrose Hill | Richmond
Park | St James's Park
The Royal Parks is registered in England and Wales: Company Registration
No: 10016100 Registered Charity No: 1172042
Registered Offices: The Old Police House, Hyde Park, London. W2 2UH
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Dear Gavin Gribbon,
Just wondering if you have this information yet as the deadline was 2 November.
Yours sincerely,
Jack Fifield
Dear Mr Fifield,
Apologies, these will hopefully be done by next Tuesday as I am currently
reviewing and revising all the figures.
Gavin Gribbon | Records Manager | 0300 061 2002 |
[1][email address]
[2]www.royalparks.org.uk | The Old Police House | Hyde Park | London | W2
2UH
The Royal Parks are: Bushy Park | The Green Park | Greenwich Park | Hyde
Park | Kensington Gardens | The Regent's Park & Primrose Hill | Richmond
Park | St James's Park
The Royal Parks is registered in England and Wales: Company Registration
No: 10016100 Registered Charity No: 1172042
Registered Offices: The Old Police House, Hyde Park, London. W2 2UH
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Dear Gavin Gribbon,
Just wondering if you had an update on this?
Yours sincerely,
Jack Fifield
Dear Mr Fifield,
Please find attached a new spreadsheet with differentiated figures.
Having gone through the figures again, I noted some discrepancies within
the original figures and have taken the opportunity to correct these.
Please note that the figures are only shown for Richmond Park and Bushy
Park. We have no separate figures for Greenwich Park for two reasons:
o Any deer culled during the season are included in the figures for
Richmond Park and are not differentiated in our records. For
reference, there are on average about six deer culled at Greenwich
Park per year.
o While the deer in Richmond Park and Bushy Park are in free roaming
herds and incidents involving the public sometimes occur, those in the
much smaller herd at Greenwich Park are in an enclosure so do not
interact with the public or vehicles. Because of this, incident
figures of the type that are referred to in the table have not
occurred there.
Regards,
Gavin Gribbon | Records Manager | [1][The Royal Parks request email]
[2]www.royalparks.org.uk | The Old Police House | Hyde Park | London | W2
2UH
The Royal Parks are: Bushy Park | The Green Park | Greenwich Park | Hyde
Park | Kensington Gardens | The Regent's Park & Primrose Hill | Richmond
Park | St James's Park
The Royal Parks is registered in England and Wales: Company Registration
No: 10016100 Registered Charity No: 1172042
Registered Offices: The Old Police House, Hyde Park, London. W2 2UH
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Dear Gavin Gribbon,
Thanks so much. For the 2020 data I don't suppose you'd be able to quickly find out which park it was for the one incident where a dog chased the deer in to the path of cars?
Thanks so much again!
Yours sincerely,
Jack Fifield
Dear Mr Fifield,
The incident referred to took place at Richmond Park.
Regards,
Gavin Gribbon | Records Manager | [The Royal Parks request email]
[1]www.royalparks.org.uk | The Old Police House | Hyde Park | London | W2
2UH
The Royal Parks are: Bushy Park | The Green Park | Greenwich Park | Hyde
Park | Kensington Gardens | The Regent's Park & Primrose Hill | Richmond
Park | St James's Park
The Royal Parks is registered in England and Wales: Company Registration
No: 10016100 Registered Charity No: 1172042
Registered Offices: The Old Police House, Hyde Park, London. W2 2UH
Please consider the environment before printing this mail
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