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Get active to keep blood sports out of our forest!
Supposedly designed to save native wildlife, a program of
using licensed game hunters to kill introduced species has
been initiated by NSW Primary Industries Min ister
Ian McDonald. A “Game Council”, established for the purpose
in 2004 is responsible for
“representing the interests of licensed, responsible game
hunters”.
“This program must be strongly condemned for it is nothing
more than a dangerous farce,” says Ms Papayanni, President
of the World League for the Protection of Animals.
“Our major parties, eager to woo the gun lobby, have
approved the use of taxpayers’ money to establish this body,
which puts hunters in charge of hunters, allowing them to
harm and kill animals using rifles, bows, or dog attack. It
is a fact that pigs are purposely dumped in forests where
there were no pigs before,
 to
provide animals for hunting. Hunters are now encouraged to
kill introduced species in State Forests with other public
lands soon to be opened up for them. How many human injuries
or worse will it take to stop them? And in any case will
the scheme save native wildlife? Two hundred years of
poisoning, trapping and shooting - say no…
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