I would hope so too. The report raises many questions:
- How many shooters were involved? 2000 birds is a lot, suggesting that quite a
few people were shooting there.
- Why were the birds left? There were legal game birds left too, so did these
people go there with no intention of retrieving anything they shot, or did they
just shoot so many that they couldn't retrieve them all?
- With so many Freckled Ducks shot, did they not realise what they were
shooting at?
- If they did realise they were shooting non game species, did they feel
totally safe from detection where they were? If so, how many other places has
the same thing happened in?
- Is this the inevitable result of what appears to be the successful harassment
of shooters on public swamps? I've heard that the majority of shooters now
refuse to go to such places because of the protesters, so most hunting is now
on private land, where bad behaviour, where it happens, is not easily detected.
Peter Shute
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On 27/03/2013, at 2:02 PM, "Ed Williams" <> wrote:
> Even a lot of shooters would surely hang their heads at this kind of mindless
> killing.
>
> Such a waste...
>
> Ed
>
>
> Ed Williams
>
> On 27/03/2013, at 1:16 PM, "Debbie Lustig" <>
> wrote:
>
>> I hate writing this stuff but somebody's got to...
>>
>>
>>
>> On opening weekend of the duck season (16/17 March), a private wetland in
>> western Victoria was the scene of what's been described as a 'massacre'. The
>> Coalition Against Duck Shooting learned around 2000 birds were shot and
>> left, including 200 Freckled Ducks, and swans, coots, grebes and game
>> species. The full extent of the carnage will never be known although the
>> Department of Primary Industries and the police are investigating. This
>> appears to be highly embarrassing for the Minister for Agriculture, Peter
>> Walsh, as he's not only in charge of this 'highly regulated activity' but it
>> happened in his electorate. So far, one person has been charged.
>>
>>
>>
>> The ABC's news coverage:
>>
>>
>>
>> http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-03-25/police-investigate-mass-slaughter-of-p
>> rotected-birds/4592690?section=vic
>>
>>
>>
>> ...and from 'The World Today':
>>
>>
>>
>> http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-03-26/mass-shooting-of-protected-birds-raise
>> s-new/4595290?section=vic
>>
>>
>>
>> Last weekend, about 150 dead birds were collected from Box Flat and brought
>> to Melbourne to display. They included 43 Freckled Duck, a Hoary-headed
>> Grebe, 5 Eurasian Coot, a Black Swan and a Blue-billed Duck (and 85 game
>> birds of five different species).
>>
>>
>>
>> Here are some photos:
>>
>>
>>
>> https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151596509838125.1073741830.63812
>> 3124
>> <https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151596509838125.1073741830.6381
>> 23124&type=1> &type=1
>>
>>
>>
>> Total = 156: 71 non-game comprising 43 endangered, 28 protected. Plus 85
>> game species.
>>
>>
>>
>> There's no hope that the Coalition will change its policy about duck
>> shooting. If you want it to end, along with outrages like this, please
>> consider emailing Daniel Andrews, leader of the state Labor Party - asking
>> him to call a halt to duck shooting if elected next year:
>>
>>
>>
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