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While I awoke this morning with a heavy heart and a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach, 1000s of Victorian hunters awoke with excitement in the early hours of the morning to set out for the beginning of the 2018 Duck Hunting season.
Last year on the opening weekend at least 260 protected birds were killed at one State Game Reserve alone and more than a thousand ducks were left uncollected after being shot.
An estimated 26,000 shooters took part in 2017 season opening.
There is no way I can bend my mind around viewing duck hunting as a "Perfectly recognisable' sport".
With so many water bird numbers dangerously low, it is hard to believe we still allow such a barbaric practice to continue.
In the line of fire DSC_6286-
While I awoke this morning with a heavy heart and a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach, 1000s of Victorian hunters awoke with excitement in the early hours of the morning to set out for the beginning of the 2018 Duck Hunting season.
Last year on the opening weekend at least 260 protected birds were killed at one State Game Reserve alone and more than a thousand ducks were left uncollected after being shot.
An estimated 26,000 shooters took part in 2017 season opening.
There is no way I can bend my mind around viewing duck hunting as a "Perfectly recognisable' sport".
With so many water bird numbers dangerously low, it is hard to believe we still allow such a barbaric practice to continue.