Return of Black Fallow Deer at LettsSafari's Dawlish Park

How a rewilding project has returned this magnificent creature.

At LettsSafari’s Dawlish Park a multi-year rewilding project to return the black fallow deer started just a few years ago. Historically black fallow have been in the Haldon Hills on the southern edge of Exeter City, and a few miles from the edges of Dartmoor, for hundreds of years. But, thanks to logging, deforestation, increased human activity and increasingly intensive farming they have struggled. They used to roam freely throughout the Haldon range. A few years ago LettsSafari and Mamhead Park South began work to provide a wilder home for these magnificent herbivores.