Thread: Victoria banning duck hunting?

When I read that I wondered if we'd learned a lesson from the extinction of the Passenger Pigeon.

In the early eighteen hundreds in America, the Passenger Pigeon was probably the most numerous bird on Earth - numbers were between 3 to 5 Billion.
In 1857 a Bill was brought to the Ohio State Legislature seeking protection for the bird - it failed.
By the mid 1890's they'd all but disappeared, the last one (Martha) dying in captivity in 1914.

Billions to zero in fifty years.

Commercial exploitation of pigeon meat and loss of habitat was responsible, plus the hundreds of thousands of hunters waiting all along the migratory passage ways.

Not saying that's what's happening to the duck - I actually don't know what's happening to the duck - and I wouldn't mind betting the duck doesn't know either.