Thread: Whats your solutions to the duck decline?

Wildlife need the right habitat to breed and feed etc, It is habitat , habitat , habitat .

We know, from licence sales and from personal comments , that many shooters have quit the game because of the introduction of steel shot .
Land owners/occupiers ( who cant be checked by looking at licence sales) probably quit in the same percentage and for the same reasons .

For landowners/occupiers to keep non productive land like swamps and ponds , they must have a stake in them , ie there must be some other benefit to them .
When they stop shooting they look at the valuable land that no longer has any recreational value to them and is now going to waste and convert it to pasture . Exit stage left one swampy pond .

Loss of habitat before any thing else , before steel, before multishot shot guns, before feeders before flappy decoys , with an ample sufficiency of habitat all the other things can be absorbed by natural means

To paraphrase T S Elliot in the Hollow Men

This is the way the duck shooting ends
Not with a bang but a whimper