Season finally ends THE Queen’s Birthday holiday signals the end of another duck hunting season. While there have been fewer ducks on Victorian wetlands this year, rescuers have seen all the usual bad behaviour by hunters: firing into flocks; birds shot but not collected; birds collected but not killed quickly and humanely; and protected species illegally shot.As for rescuers, five were this week largely cleared of charges arising from last year’s closing weekend. This farcical trial cost thousands of dollars and seven days of the court’s time.Letter to The Saturday Age. The court cases referred to were reported by ABC radio. Files attached.
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