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Has anyone seen or heard of wild deer being up here in the territory?

Heard rumours of a private operator (farm) that had quite a population years back and eventually they were all turned free.
Supposedly they bred up and there is still a pocket of bush that holds them. No info on the actual location though.

and here
http://mrwrsafaris.com/species.htm

Dont know about deer but its dear to live here. Dear Oh dear

There's been a good few on Prince of Wales Island in the Torres Strait for decades so they can thrive in north Australian habitat.

Hey All

Bloke i know had a game hunting operation years ago at a Private reserve at Mary river
It was stocked up with white tail deer, but the business never took off & the deer eventually got out, Evry now & then i see the Deer hanging aroun on way to shady.

Cheers
Dray

There a few around down pine creek way

there is a little island off groote swarming with them. Cannot remember the name of it though.

Sambar deer on the Coburg peninsular - a safari mob used to operate out of the huts there 25 years ago.

Mary River East station has a few and they run safaris for them. There is also a big mob of Chital on Tipperary station but no public hunting for them

There are a few pockets of them around the Territory. Mary river to pine creek is one of them. A few of the islands north east of Arnhem land have them and coburg has them. Rare to see them but yes they are there. There is also the odd stray around Darwin River but they usually don't last long.

Northeast Isle off groote as rusa on it but no go for hunting them

Yeah i got a spot about 8 hours from darwin near roper way and see around 10 every trip

Had My hounds bail a Samba just off Cox peninsular Road a couple of years ago