Premier Peter Gutwein today officially opened the 2022 deer hunting season for public land in Tasmania. This covers stag season only.
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In this article, we explore whether hunting is an ethical, organic and sustainable way to eat, and why we have chosen to adopt it.
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Despite what the media would have you believe, hunting is one of the safest recreational sports you can take part in, with far fewer injuries each year than from more acceptable sports such as volleyball, soccer, horse riding, water sports, football, golf, bike riding and even table tennis (believe it […]
When compared to other sports, hunting is remarkably safe, given the fact we use high-powered rifles as equipment. Unfortunately, there are still accidents that occur every year. Thankfully, fatalities are still few and far between and account for only a tiny percentage of all hunting accidents. Still, even one avoidable […]
You may have heard people talking about ethical hunting and how important it is to conduct ourselves as ethically as possible out in the field. But what does it actually mean to be an ethical hunter, and how do you determine what is ethical and what is not? Unlike laws, […]
If hunting is to survive, we need to cultivate a culture that values hunter education and rejects unethical and unsafe behaviours.
1. Practice perfectly This may seem self explanatory but you often hear people saying practice makes perfect. In reality, only perfect practice makes perfect. If you aren’t practising the way you are going to actually be hunting then you’re not practising right. If you know you’re going to be sitting […]
Every social justice warrior on the Internet seems to be calling for a hunting ban these days. Every few months, there’s yet another wave of public outrage inspired by a photo of a hunter posing with a trophy. There’s a somewhat reluctant acceptance that meat hunting can be justified but […]
Hunters have plenty of enemies in today’s PC, take-offense-at-everything culture. Anti-hunters, angry vegans, and opinionated celebrities, like Ricky Gervais, constantly bombard hunters with vile threats and hate on social media. So as hunters, what should we do when we face opposition online? For us, we take a leaf out of […]
I have always wanted to hunt a zebra. I’ve got no issue eating the meat and think that they make for a beautiful trophy on the wall. To me it’s really no different to hunting a deer. Now calm down. I can feel the hate coming through the computer screen. […]
We have all heard it said that trophy hunting is harmful to wildlife conservation. Tell that to the rare and endangered markhor, which is actually growing in number since Pakistan introduced trophy hunting as part of its wildlife conservation program.
Is hunting a sustainable and ethical way to eat? In this article, we explore the impact hunting has on food production and getting food to the table.