Tag: wildlife
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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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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…
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Experience at the Workface Counts
I grew up in Eltham area. I feel at home in Castlemaine, where I live on an old lavendar farm with many varieties of lavendar growing wild, dark and light purple, yellow! Bees love lavendar and so do I! I share a couple acres with rescue sheep, Portia and Pablo. Working locally in Castlemaine, as…