Save our Bird Sales!
Update - The Victorian sales will be returning to normal but we still need to work to keep our sales and hobby alive. I will update this page soon.
BIRD SALES across Australia are at risk
As some of you will be aware, there is a person trying to lobby politicians to ban bird sales, she has had misleading information published in Victorian newspaper and she is doing the same in other states. She has set up an online petition asking for the Mornington Peninsula Avicultural Society’s sale to be ban along with the other Victorian sales and also asked people to email the relevant minister to "Ban Bird Sales" citing false accusations of cruelty to birds.
We ask ALL bird keepers to email the minister themselves saying that they want Bird Sales to continue. Also ask your families and friends to do the same. The more emails the minister gets, the more she will realise how many people are affected. You can wright your own or just copy and send the one below.
Please email Minister Jaala Pulford at jaala.pulford@parliament.vic.gov.au
As some of you will be aware, there is a person trying to lobby politicians to ban bird sales, she has had misleading information published in Victorian newspaper and she is doing the same in other states. She has set up an online petition asking for the Mornington Peninsula Avicultural Society’s sale to be ban along with the other Victorian sales and also asked people to email the relevant minister to "Ban Bird Sales" citing false accusations of cruelty to birds.
We ask ALL bird keepers to email the minister themselves saying that they want Bird Sales to continue. Also ask your families and friends to do the same. The more emails the minister gets, the more she will realise how many people are affected. You can wright your own or just copy and send the one below.
Please email Minister Jaala Pulford at jaala.pulford@parliament.vic.gov.au
" I attend Bird Sales in Victoria and want them to continue."
I attend Bird Sales in Victoria and they should continue. The avicultural groups that oversee these sales are also using them to educate people on the proper care of their birds.
Information shared by Australian aviculturists is used around the world in programs to save endangered species and the banning of bird sales is the first step to banning the keeping of all birds which will put at risk these programs.
The majority of aviculturists will never make a profit from their birds as most are spending thousands of dollars each year on supplies for their birds. Bird groups are also helping to fund the programs to save endangered species.
Contradictory to what some people are saying most aviculturists keep their birds in aviaries with room to fly and these aviaries also allow the birds to exhibit natural behavior. We also understand that bird are intelligent creatures so anyone seen doing the wrong thing will be told what they should do to rectify the issue.
Birds like parrots and finches raise their young in nest boxes and these nest boxes that they choose to sit in for weeks at a time are smaller than the boxes used at the sales. The bird sale boxes are designed with the birds safety in mind.
We hope you do the right thing and listen to the thousands of Victorian people that attend these sale and inject large sums of money into the Victorian economy.
Yours Sincerely,
I attend Bird Sales in Victoria and they should continue. The avicultural groups that oversee these sales are also using them to educate people on the proper care of their birds.
Information shared by Australian aviculturists is used around the world in programs to save endangered species and the banning of bird sales is the first step to banning the keeping of all birds which will put at risk these programs.
The majority of aviculturists will never make a profit from their birds as most are spending thousands of dollars each year on supplies for their birds. Bird groups are also helping to fund the programs to save endangered species.
Contradictory to what some people are saying most aviculturists keep their birds in aviaries with room to fly and these aviaries also allow the birds to exhibit natural behavior. We also understand that bird are intelligent creatures so anyone seen doing the wrong thing will be told what they should do to rectify the issue.
Birds like parrots and finches raise their young in nest boxes and these nest boxes that they choose to sit in for weeks at a time are smaller than the boxes used at the sales. The bird sale boxes are designed with the birds safety in mind.
We hope you do the right thing and listen to the thousands of Victorian people that attend these sale and inject large sums of money into the Victorian economy.
Yours Sincerely,
Please share this around as many bird sites as possible. Emails need to be sent ASAP