<p>Each licence that Natural England Wildlife Licensing Service (NEWLS) issues comes with the condition that the licensee must provide a report of all action taken under that licence within 14 days of that licence ending.</p><p> </p><p>Natural England have received 81% of all reports covering the deer licences to shoot at night which were active between 1<sup>st</sup> January 2021 and 31<sup>st</sup> December 2023.</p><p> </p><p>These reports show that a total of 9,684 deer were shot at night under licence, of which:</p><ul><li>608 are Red Deer</li><li>127 are Roe Deer</li><li>568 are Sika Deer</li><li>455 are Muntjac Deer</li><li>7,926 are Fallow Deer</li></ul><p> </p><p>Please note, due to the format we received some of these reports of action from customers, the above figures may contain some deer shot before 1<sup>st</sup> January 2021.</p>