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Dear Friends,

The Victorian government has called a duck-shooting season for 2011.

OUR NATIVE WATERBIRDS NEED YOUR HELP!
JOIN OUR RESCUE TEAM NOW!

On the opening morning of the duck season, rescuers in kayaks and on foot will enter the water to move birds away before shooters arrive.

Wounded birds are brought out and taken to our mobile veterinary clinics.

Rescuers wear white or brightly coloured t shirts. This enables birds flying overhead to detect the possible danger below from shooters. The birds will usually keep flying high and out of shotgun range.

Brightly coloured t-shirts also makes it safer for rescuers while out in the water.

Rescued wounded birds will be taken to our mobile veterinary clinic on the wetland.

Shooter numbers over the years have fallen dramatically.

HELP US MAKE IT ZERO!

Laurie Levy
Campaign Director.

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History and Victories

2007 & 2008

Moratoriums called in Victoria and South Australia. The rescue team travelled to Moulting Lagoon, the entrance to Freycinet National Park, on the east coast of Tasmania to confront the shooters and protect waterbirds after the Tasmanian government refused to call a moratorium.

2008

Three states in Australia have now banned the recreational shooting of native waterbirds – Western Australia (1990), New South Wales (1995) and now Queensland (10 August 2005)

2005

Queensland’s Premier Beattie becomes the third state Labor government to ban the recreational shooting of native waterbirds.

The Age editorial (19 March) again calls for the recreational shooting of native waterbirds to be banned in Victoria.

The numbers of duck shooters in Victoria drops from 95000 in 1986 to 19,400 today, although only small number were active on the state's wetlands in 2005.

View our Opening Weekend 2005 article

2003

The Sunday Age editorial (12 January) calls on the Victorian Bracks Government to ban the recreational shooting of native waterbirds in Victoria.

The Victorian government calls a moratorium. Rescue team travels to Tasmania for the opening weekend of their duck shooting season.

2002

The Bracks Government's own Animal Welfare Advisory Committee (AWAC) recommends that the recreational shooting of native waterbirds be banned in Victoria because of the inherent cruelty.

2001

Lead shot banned in Victoria.

1995

Premier Bob Carr bans the recreational shooting of native waterbirds in NSW, the second state Labor government to ban the activity.

1993

The Age newspaper editorial (24 March) calls for duck shooting to be outlawed. The first sentence says: 'Duck shooting is not a sport, it is an obscenity'.