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2025 Victorian Duck season setting progress

The Victorian Government has released the Draft Game Duck Harvest Strategy, a major initiative designed to provide a structured, evidence-based framework for sustainable game duck hunting. Field & Game Australia (FGA) has reviewed the draft and provided detailed feedback, emphasizing opportunities to improve the strategy and ensure its success. Below are the key points from the strategy and FGA’s response.
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Fri 20 Dec 2024

Take Action Tuesday: Calling All Fox Hunters! 🦊

Read more about a unique opportunity to actively contribute to wildlife conservation and demonstrate the essential role of hunters in scientific research. Together, we can shape the future of conservation in Australia and beyond.
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Tue 26 Nov 2024

What hunters need to know about High Path Avian Influenza if/when it arrives in Australia

High pathogenicity AI H5 viruses (including H5N1) have not been detected in animals in Australia. In Australian poultry enterprises, eleven outbreaks of HPAI H7 strains occurred between 1976 and 2024 [20-25]. HPAI has never been detected in Australian wild birds, other than one detection of HPAI H7 in a feral Eurasian starling (Sterna vulgaris) trapped inside an affected poultry shed during a 1985.
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Thu 24 Oct 2024

Vale Max Downes

Field & Game Australia (FGA) were deeply saddened to receive the news from family that Max had passed away on Thursday 17 October 2024, eleven days before his 97th birthday.
Mon 21 Oct 2024

The Aussie Bird Count: Why contribute?

Every year, Birdlife Australia encourages the public to get involved with its Aussie Bird Count for one week in October. Counting birds is simple; and if you see ducks in the mix, the numbers are useful for informing the data on game bird abundance. Field & Game Australia volunteers – many of them hunters – count duck numbers twice each year.
Thu 10 Oct 2024

Victorian fox bounty increases

For the first time in 22 years, Victoria’s fox bounty has increased – from $10 per scalp to $14 – in a move aimed at encouraging increased control of these pests which cost farmers tens of millions of dollars in lost stock and also kill hundreds of millions of native animals, birds and reptiles every year. Find out how you can become involved in this important conservation effort.
Thu 26 Sep 2024

Take Action Tuesday

Every time we don’t act, those who want to see hunting and shooting sports restricted, or even banned, gain ground. So, we're launching Take Action Tuesday to make it as easy as possible for you to take positive action. Each week, we’ll provide you with the most critical updates, the relevant information you need, the direct links to make your voice heard, and the actions you can take to help us secure the pastimes we've enjoyed for generations.
Tue 24 Sep 2024

Wildlife (Game) Regulations 2024 decisions released

With the release on September 2 of the decisions regarding the new Wildlife (Game) Regulations 2024, the Victorian Government has stood by its commitment to enable sustainable, regulated game hunting to continue. The final regulations have mostly adhered to what was in the draft, but several important changes have been made.
Tue 03 Sep 2024

1080 pest animal poisoning

The Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action (DEECA) will be undertaking a 1080 pest animal poisoning program using buried baits and canid pest ejectors on public land to control wild dogs, from September 2, 2024 to January 1, 2025.
Mon 26 Aug 2024

Notice of fox control program using commercial 1080 baits

Parks Victoria will be undertaking 1080 fox baiting from Monday, June 10, 2024 until Friday, August 30, 2024, inclusive at the following locations: Dowd Morass Wildlife Reserve (State Game Reserve); Heart Morass Wildlife Reserve (State Game Reserve); Andrew Bay – Grebe Bay Gippsland Lakes Reserve; and Clydebank Morass Wildlife Reserve (State Game Reserve).
Wed 05 Jun 2024

Three wetlands to open

The GMA has announced three wetlands that had been closed to hunting in the 2024 Victorian duck season will be opened on Monday, May 20.
Fri 17 May 2024

March is FGA membership renewal time!

Field & Game Australia memberships expire on March 31. Your membership will be up for renewal unless you have already renewed it. It's easy to check if you need to renew, just scan the QR code to get started.
Tue 19 Mar 2024