We are encroaching into habitats that previously we as humans did not really know those ecological niches were occupied by other species. But we are invading them.”
This pressure was probably a consequence of competition to fill the new ecological niches opened up by an ability to recognise sweet things as both edible and nutritious.
For example, some plants may be relying on a certain amount of rainfall, or an animal may feed exclusively on one species, they have a specialized ecological niche.
It has been populated with red deer and also semi-feral cattle and ponies intended to fill ecological niches occupied by long extinct our rocks and tarpons.