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.