Netting | Wildlife Safe Nets Campaign
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The Safe Nets campaign asks the Victorian state government to make wildlife safe netting mandatory for those wishing to net their backyard fruit trees.
STORY
Wildlife Safe Nets Campaign is an initiative of the Victorian Advocates for Animals.
It is a response to the daily deaths of wildlife in unsafe backyard fruit tree netting and the relentless trauma wildlife rescuers face in dealing with unsafe (wide aperture) netting products. Netting fingers can pass through are unsafe and should never be put on a fruit tree.
Wildlife Safe Nets Campaign is an initiative of the Victorian Advocates for Animals.
It is a response to the daily deaths of wildlife in unsafe backyard fruit tree netting and the relentless trauma wildlife rescuers face in dealing with unsafe (wide aperture) netting products. Netting fingers can pass through are unsafe and should never be put on a fruit tree.
Backyard fruit tree netting is deadly to nocturnal wildlife - they do not see it and become hopelessly trapped. Bats suffer cruel injuries, breaking fine wing bones, damaging delicate membrane and cutting mouths.
A lactating female caught in backyard fruit tree netting. Kept in care, her baby would have died from hunger and exposure back at the camp.
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