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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

Pro-hunting message goes large in Sale

The pro-hunting message is being displayed in a big way in Sale, Gippsland, with a new billboard promoting the duck hunting season and all the things it means to us.
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Thu 14 Mar 2024

Consumptive hunting: A passion that fuels conservation efforts

Victoria's wetlands are not just bodies of water but cherished landscapes thanks to the stewardship of volunteer hunters who invest time, effort, and resources into their care – unlike in NSW where recent news stories have painted a very different picture.
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Wed 21 Feb 2024

Join the #25by25 journey with Field & Game Australia!

Join the #25by25 journey with Field & Game Australia! We're on an ambitious quest to get 2,500 people to complete game bird identification training and have 2500 WITs delivered by 2025. This initiative is about more than just numbers; it's about fostering a culture of responsible hunting, conservation, and camaraderie.
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Tue 13 Feb 2024

Duck hunting forum attracts 400 hunters and supporters

About 400 passionate duck hunters and supporters packed into a meeting room in Craigieburn on October 24 to participate in a forum organised by Liberals' Evan Mulholland and the Nationals' Emma Kealy, where each pledged their party's support for the continuation of duck hunting in Victoria.
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Wed 25 Oct 2023

NT goose and duck hunting season begins

September 20 marks the start of the Northern Territory recreational goose and duck hunting season. This year there is an extra requirement for hunters who are not from the Northern Territory.
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Wed 20 Sep 2023

Native game bird hunting inquiry in Victoria and S.A

Submissions to the native bird hunting inquiry in Victoria and the native bird hunting inquiry in South Australia are now closed. Field & Game Australia made comprehensive submissions to both inquiries, and we thank our members, their families and friends who also took the time to write their own submissions in support of game bird hunting.
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Wed 31 May 2023