General News
7 February, 2025
Readers on duck season and ecotourism
Activists call for 2025 duck season to be abandoned to prevent arrival of bird flu John Tan wrote: First it was PFAS, then coronavirus, then botulism, and now bird flu virus. Maybe they should claim it’s the Bourbon virus next. Robert Treble...
Activists call for 2025 duck season to be abandoned to prevent arrival of bird flu
John Tan wrote: First it was PFAS, then coronavirus, then botulism, and now bird flu virus. Maybe they should claim it’s the Bourbon virus next.
Robert Treble wrote: No other country in the world has stopped a season for bird flu. They educate hunters to report any observations they get excellent field reports for the duration of the season.
Peter Talbot wrote: Ducks at my place are polluting my dam water, have to get water from standpipe for horses, do I really need 50 ducks?
Michelle Mead wrote: Absolutely. Duck shooting can hardly be called a sport. It is cruel and archaic. Ecotourism is a much better path for rural communities promoting and embracing their wonderful native wildlife.
Graziano Pagliaro wrote: Ecotourism - what has it done for the Winton wetlands ? It’s a joke.
Danny Asmussen wrote: Ecotourism is a fantasy land dreamt up by activists. People aren’t spending time in wetlands with mosquitoes and snakes, just not happening, proof of that is duck season only goes for a maximum of 12 weeks. That leaves 40 other weeks for people to visit wetlands, yet they don’t. Forty weeks not long enough to set up a business I hear you say, seems the businesses on the ski fields can run businesses with a lot less weeks than that.