This video is definitely an issue based activism project, but more targeted at the longer term implications of how we define our relationship with natural forces. Being more concerned with an evolutionary perspective on species to species relationships, I have come to view the deer population in Victoria as a mutually beneficial.
Though of course I also come from Helena, Montana, which was one of the first cities to initiate urban deer culls. I have had a few extremely powerful interactions with the deer in the forest which I grew up in, but I still am comfortable hunting them and eating deer meat as communication with the forest and that species.
I feel very differently about management depending on where I am at, and the deer around Helena and Victoria are actually different species, and have significantly different relationships with the corresponding human populations. Though in both places, I feel that the deer deserve more respect, care, tolerance and awareness on our part.
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