The Biodiversity Council welcomed the opportunity to provide feedback into the Parliament of Victoria’s Select Committee Inquiry into Native Bird Hunting Arrangements.

The Biodiversity Council does not support a continuation of recreational native bird hunting in Victoria in light of a range of factors, threats and documented declines. This includes a decline in all waterbird species over the last 40 years observed in the annual Eastern Australian waterbird survey which began in 1983.

The scientific evidence for discontinuing native bird hunting is detailed in our submission.