[Greens-Media] Media Release: Duck hunting now Coalition policy in NSW

[David Shoebridge]

Media Release: Duck hunting now Coalition policy in NSW
22 November 2012
 
Legislation authorising increased duck hunting on private land has now passed the NSW upper house with the full in principle support of the O'Farrell government. It is certain to pass the lower house later today.
 
Greens NSW MP and Firearms spokesperson David Shoebridge said:
 
"What was originally a duck hunting bill from the minor Shooters and Fishers Party has been embraced and adopted wholeheartedly by the O'Farrell government.
 
"The pro-hunting Game Council will now be licensing duck hunters in NSW.
 
"The O'Farrell duck hunting scheme expands the former Labor government's 'game bird mitigation' program and will see thousands of our native animals being killed and wounded for sport," Mr Shoebridge said.
 
Native Birds to be hunted 
 
Ducks
Australian Shelduck or Mountain Duck (Tadorna tadornoides)
Australian Wood Duck or Maned Duck (Chenonetta jubata)
Black Duck or Pacific Black Duck (Anas superciliosa)
Blue-winged Shoveler or Australasian Shoveler (Anas rhynchotis)
Chestnut Teal (Anas castanea)
Grass Whistling Duck or Plumed Whistling Duck (Dendrocygna eytoni)
Grey Teal (Anas gibberifrons)
Hardhead Duck or White-eyed Duck (Aythya australis)
Pink-eared Duck (Malacorhynchus membranaceus)
Water Whistling Duck, Wandering  Whistling Duck or Whistling or
Wandering Tree Duck (Dendrocygna arcuata)
 
Quails
Brown Quail (Coturnix ypsilophora)
Stubble Quail (Coturnix pectoralis)
 
Pigeons
Common Bronzewing Pigeon (Phaps chalcoptera)
Crested Pigeon (Ocyphaps lophotes)
 
Media contact: Mark Riboldi 9230 3030 | 0433 753 376
 
 

Mark Riboldi
Communications & Policy 
Office of Greens NSW MP David Shoebridge
P: (02) 9230 3030|M: 0433 753 376|T: @thebigriboldi ( http://twitter.com/#!/thebigriboldi )
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