#waterbirds

Oct 30, 20193 min read

The Big Dry - Our Wildlife - Our Future

It's around this time of year that people who live and work around Victoria's wetlands start to feel heightened anxiety. For many there...

Mar 15, 20192 min read

How Dry is Dry? How "Sustainable" Can a Shooting Season Be?

Yesterday The Age reported "Duck numbers are in Crisis" with good reason. Australia's native waterbirds are at perilously low numbers,...

Jan 16, 20193 min read

It's on.

Dear Friends, Sadly, Labor has failed our desperately low numbers of native waterbirds - many unique to our country - as well as our...

Jan 8, 20192 min read

We should be celebrating, not decimating our native waterbirds.

Any day now the Andrews government will announce what will or won't be, in terms of another native waterbird shooting season in 2019, at...

Dec 19, 20182 min read

Native Waterbird Numbers Take a Dive

Cause to cease fire - Part 1. Last Friday RVOTDS Inc made a submission to Game Management Authority (GMA) to close next years native...

Apr 5, 20181 min read

Easter at Victorian waterways.

We hope the Andrews Government enjoyed a relaxing Easter break with their loved ones. ....we tried to. Whilst only a small number of...

Oct 5, 20173 min read

Professor's comment on the survival of waterbirds.

Australian ducks and waterbirds are extraordinary, relying on water not just on the driest continent on earth but one that deigns to...