The Baillieu government today announced a full, three-month duck shooting
season for Victoria, commencing March 19. This is wrong on at least two major
grounds:
Cruelty - one in four ducks shot are wounded, not killed; their deaths are
often prolonged and painful;
Environment - the Victorian wetlands have not recovered from the prolonged
drought and may not do so for several more years. Therefore, waterbird numbers
are down. Are there really enough for 20,000 hunters to each bag 10 ducks per
day, for three months? This could devastate whole species.
Duck shooting was banned in three states (WA, QLD and NSW) as long ago as 1990.
Please write ASAP to newspapers and your local parliamentarian about this
reprehensible practice.
If we care about birds, together we can stamp it out.
Further information from the Coalition Against Duck Shooting website:
www.duck.org.au
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