With 1 million deer in Victoria and numbers growing, the level of damage to rainforest canopy trees in fire-affected regions is extreme.
Mr Crook said deer were ringbarking these trees by rubbing their antlers on the trunks.
"They are definitely in the Illawarra region … they weren't in New South Wales that high up 10 to 15 years ago. It's a long way," Dr Bennett said. "If they're targeting one or two species, those species can become really threatened," said La Trobe University Associate Professor John Morgan, an alpine ecology expert.While deer were previously uncommon in the Victorian high country, he said numbers "dramatically" escalated there after the 2003 alpine bushfires.
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