After the Victorian government announced it would consider banning duck hunting, South Australia will also look at the future of the practice.
abc.net.au/news/duck-hunting-future-reviewed-south-australia-season-going-ahead/101885930South Australia's Environment Minister has announced she will order a review into duck hunting in the state.The upcoming review will not affect this year's hunting seasonThe duck hunting season in South Australia is set to start in March, with the review to be formally announced in the coming weeks.
"So at the moment, the way that the law is cast is that if there is environmental conditions, that there hasn't been pressure on duck populations ... then a season is opened," she said. She said environmental groups had raised concerns flooding along the River Murray had impacted duck numbers ahead of the 2023 season, but officially advice is hunting can still go ahead.
He said previous reviews in South Australia, and in other states, had found the practice was environmentally safe and sustainable. "There isn't a single person alive today who doesn't come down from a very long lineage of successful hunters. Hunting is part of mankind."
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