ADA Deer Management Accreditation Course now online

The Deer Management Initiative is an ADA national initiative through which the Australian Deer Association aims to contribute to improving the deer management situation in Australia, by providing expert advice for the development, implementation and review of deer management programs, and trained volunteers for deer management programs and research or data collection programs associated with the deer management programs.

The objectives of the Deer Management Initiative are: 

• To ensure the appropriate management of deer by alleviating and treating impacts attributed to overabundant deer populations or deer present in locations /areas they are not wanted.
• For the ADA to be respected as pragmatic, valuable partners in deer management.
• To provide a nationally consistent, professional and easily engaged model so that Governments and other Volunteer Involving Organisations (VIO’s) can partner with the ADA in order to achieve agreed deer management outcomes.
• To allow the ADA to act as the “honest brokers” who bring the various parties involved in the management of Australia’s wild deer herds together for the common good, and hold poorly designed and or implemented programs accountable.
• To elevate the standards of deer management in Australia, through collaboration between partner agencies and subject matter experts, and the application of scientific principles and the use of data in the planning, conduct, evaluation and reporting of deer management related activities.
• To drive or support research (including with funding and volunteer effort) that improves our understanding of deer and our ability to manage them.
• To provide a vehicle through which interested ADA members can volunteer their unique skills and abilities in the DMP, and in doing so increase their knowledge of practical wildlife management and citizen science whilst assisting land managers in addressing the impacts of overabundant wild deer.

The theory component of ADA's Deer Management Accreditation is now available for completion by ADA Members online. 

Interested members should first familiarise themselves with the Deer Management Accreditation Course Workbook. 

When members are confident with the material in the workbook, they can then attempt the theory test online. (Please note two test attempts can be made in a 24-hour period).

Members who have successfully completed the theory test will then be invited to sit the practical test.