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Location : Wasted Space Job/hobbies : Cayman Islands Actuary
| Subject: National parks open to amateur OZschwitz shooters, yay! Fri Feb 14, 2014 5:15 pm | |
| The first hunt by licensed amateurs in a NSW national park will take place on Saturday near Griffith as police continue to search for shooters who illegally gunned down six brumbies in a state forest to the north.
On Saturday, four volunteer hunters will target feral goats at the Cocoparra Nature Reserve under National Parks and Wildlife Service supervision as part of a controversial three-year state government trial.
The reserve is one of 12 parks opened to amateur hunting by the government after Premier Barry O'Farrell struck a deal with the Shooters and Fishers Party to get electricity privatisation legislation through the Parliament.
National Parks said the hunting was designed to help protect the Cocoparra Pomaderris, a native shrub, and the Inland Grey Box woodland endangered ecological community. Advertisement
The reserve will be closed while the hunting takes place.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/nsw-national-parks-open-to-amateur-shooters-20140214-32rb5.html#ixzz2tKyKR16l |
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