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Regional Victorians Opposed to Duck Shooting Inc.
May 19, 20192 min read
Nightfall on final day.
Night falls on the last day of shattered wings and broken families, of the gut wrenching helplessness as our struggling native waterbirds...
Regional Victorians Opposed to Duck Shooting Inc.
May 12, 20191 min read
Nature - the New Magnet for Chinese Leisure Travelers.
Tourism Research Australia recently published a study of Chinese "Free and Independent Travelers" (FITs) and the opportunity they pose to...
Regional Victorians Opposed to Duck Shooting Inc.
May 2, 20191 min read
Respecting Community and Birdlife
More waterways have been closed to duck shooting in Florida US out of respect for residents, concern for birdlife and public safety....
Regional Victorians Opposed to Duck Shooting Inc.
Apr 8, 20192 min read
Birding could Boom in Rural Victoria too
Following our blog 24th February, https://www.regionalvictoriansotds.com/single-post/2019/02/24/20-Days-to-Open-Fire-on-Victorias-Native-...
Regional Victorians Opposed to Duck Shooting Inc.
Mar 31, 20193 min read
Lawlessness Still Pervades Victoria's Wetlands
Despite record low numbers of shooters and millions more taxpayer dollars subsiding regulatory efforts, lawlessness continues across the...
Regional Victorians Opposed to Duck Shooting Inc.
Mar 28, 20191 min read
Another Council to be Commended
Have you heard? While the ultimate decision rests with Ministers, Mt Alexander Shire last week voted to support an end to duck shooting...
Regional Victorians Opposed to Duck Shooting Inc.
Mar 22, 20192 min read
Progressive Leadership is Here.
Amongst what has been described as carnage across our waterways since the early hours of last Saturday, two great things have happened...
Regional Victorians Opposed to Duck Shooting Inc.
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,...
Regional Victorians Opposed to Duck Shooting Inc.
Mar 6, 20192 min read
10 Days to Unmonitored Gunfire in Public Places
This is not a real picture because duck shooting is not allowed at Albert Park Lake. The question is why? Did You Know... In less than 2...
Regional Victorians Opposed to Duck Shooting Inc.
Mar 1, 20192 min read
15 Days to Go. What did previous governments know that this one doesn't?
Jeff Kennett cancelled a duck shooting season in 1995. The Bracks government cancelled three during the Millennium drought. Yet in two...
Regional Victorians Opposed to Duck Shooting Inc.
Feb 24, 20192 min read
20 Days to Open Fire on Native Waterbirds in Victoria
Did you know... Around the world, communities are reaping the rewards of revering their birdlife. In the US, birdwatching is a $41...
Regional Victorians Opposed to Duck Shooting Inc.
Feb 12, 20191 min read
Cruelty. One good reason other states have banned this.
Watch this short clip to learn why progressive states and territories know duck shooting is no walk in the park. The Victorian government...
Regional Victorians Opposed to Duck Shooting Inc.
Feb 2, 20193 min read
42 Days to Native Waterbird Shooting
DID YOU KNOW moratoriums have been held on duck shooting in Victoria in 2003, 2007 and 2008, due to drought and low native waterbird...
Regional Victorians Opposed to Duck Shooting Inc.
Jan 21, 20191 min read
54 Days to Native Waterbird Shooting
Did you know....? Our native waterbirds are protected under the Wildlife Act, except for when it's native waterbird recreational shooting...
Regional Victorians Opposed to Duck Shooting Inc.
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...
Regional Victorians Opposed to Duck Shooting Inc.
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...
Regional Victorians Opposed to Duck Shooting Inc.
Jan 6, 20193 min read
Putting Our Faith in Premier Andrews
To Get It Done for Rural Victoria. Countering perhaps his only party member with vision, Michael O'Brien - new Liberal leader - recently...
Regional Victorians Opposed to Duck Shooting Inc.
Dec 20, 20181 min read
Time to Get It Done for Rural Victorians
Cause to cease fire - Part 2 Following our previous blog, it’s not just our pathetic native waterbird numbers that Regional Victorians...
Regional Victorians Opposed to Duck Shooting Inc.
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...
Regional Victorians Opposed to Duck Shooting Inc.
Dec 3, 20181 min read
One hurts no-one. One hurts everything.
"Sport" = an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against eachother or others for...
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