After a tip-off from a member of the public, rescuers recovered 42 illegally shot, threatened Freckled Ducks from Lake Bullrush, south of the Grampians, during the first week of the 2014 recreational duck shooting season.
Altogether that year, rescuers recovered over 100...
read more[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2oBhIO2PI0[/embed] The rescue and subsequent release of an Australasian Shoveler shot on the opening of the 2014 Victorian recreational duck shooting season in Australia. Kindness always trumps violence. (Narrated by Laurie Levy). Note: By 2022 the Australasian Blue-winged Shovelers (and Hardhead Ducks...
read more[embed]https://youtu.be/d21uvoHoNNQ[/embed] Photography student, Sue Jeffers, attended the opening of the 2014 Victorian recreational duck shooting season and the display of dead birds outside the Premier’s office on the Monday afterwards and compiled this short film for her photography course.
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On the opening weekend of the 2013 duck shooting season, the Coalition Against Duck Shooting (CADS) received a tip-off that a massacre of native waterbirds, including some 200 threatened Freckled Ducks, had taken place on a private wetland called Box Flat, in northwest Victoria.