https://au.news.yahoo.com/vic/a/31134759/activists-in-court-to-stop-vic-duck-hunt/
Hundreds of threatened blue-billed ducks are safer after a last-minute legal bid banned shooters from their wetland home on the eve of Victoria's duck hunting season.
But animal rights activists say it shouldn't have taken a trip to the Supreme Court to force the government to follow its own rules.
Animals Australia and the state government on Friday agreed to halt hunting at Lake Elizabeth in Kerang which is home to the protected blue-billed duck.
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So far six wetlands have been closed for the opening weekend of the hunting season - but there's still around 180 that will be open to shooters.
