Tag: biodiversity
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Victorian Labor’s Dangerous Love Affair with the Gun and Hunting Lobbies
Victorian Labor’s Dangerous Love Affair with the Gun and Hunting Lobbies Over its past two terms in office, the Victorian Labor Government has been silently weakening controls over gun ownership while encouraging the slaughter of native wildlife by recreational hunters. Earlier this year, when challenged about continued recreational hunting of Victorian native water birds, the…
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Labor’s Invisible Environment Policy
Where is Labor’s Biodiversity Policy Platform? Marilyn Nuske, Independent candidate for the Victorian seat of Bendigo West, today slammed the Victorian government over its abject failure to protect our natural environment. While our national and Victorian ecosystems continue to degrade, with ongoing wildlife species loss, the Victorian government insults the Victorian public by dressing up…
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Dingoes a threatened protected species under the FFG Act, tortured for pelts
Listed as a threatened native taxon in Victoria, and protected under the Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act, the Dingo continues to be subject to unnecessary persecution, lethal control and cruelty, including at the hands of recreational hunters through the Victorian bounty scheme for pelts and the unnecessary use of 1080 poison. In practice, recreational hunters…