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Environment
Jack Gramenz and Farid Farid

Animal advocates shoot down bill for enabling 'yahoos'

Hunters would receive a bounty for killing invasive species like pigs, under a bill proposed in NSW. (Jono Searle/AAP PHOTOS)

Environmentalists have opened fire on a bill which could pay recreational hunters for killing invasive pests, describing the plan as enabling a "fringe minority of men" to let loose.

A bill before NSW parliament aims to establish a Conservation Hunting Authority, with debate in the upper house taking place on Wednesday.

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