COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
DECLARATION OF AN APPROVED WILDLIFE TRADE OPERATION
1. I, Paul Murphy, Assistant Secretary, Wildlife Trade and Biosecurity Branch:
(a) being satisfied as to the matters set out in section 303FN of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Cth) (EPBC Act),
declare that the Wildlife Trade Operation for the commercial export of naturally moulted bird feathers (the Plan), is an approved wildlife trade operation for the purposes of section 303FN of the EPBC Act.
2. The Plan is subject to the declaration in paragraph 1 only:
(a) for a period of three years from the date of gazettal;
(b) to the extent that the Plan relates to specimens from the following species from suppliers approved by the Department:
Alisterus scapularis | Eolophus roseicapilla | Amazona autumnalis | Poicephalus gulielmi |
Aprosmictus erythropterus | Lophochroa (Cacatua) leadbeateri | Amazona lilacina | Poicephalus meyeri |
Barnardius zonarius zonarius | Nymphicus hollandicus | Amazona ochrocephala | Poicephalus rufiventris |
Cacatua galerita | Platycercus elegans | Amazona ochrocephala panamensis | Poicephalus senegalus |
Callocephalon fimbriatum | Platycercus eximius | Ara ararauna | Psittacus timneh |
Calyptorhynchus banksii banksii | Platycercus flaveolus | Ara chloropterus | Primolius auricollis |
Calyptorhynchus banksii macrorhynchus | Platycercus icterotis | Ara severus | Psittacula alexandri |
Calyptorhynchus banksii samueli | Platycercus venustus | Aratinga solstitialis | Psittacula columboides |
Calyptorhynchus funereus | Purpureicephalus spurius | Cyanoliseus patagonus | Psittacula cyanocephala |
Calyptorhynchus lathami erebus | Amazona aestiva | Cyanoramphus auriceps | Psittacula derbiana |
Calyptorhynchus lathami lathami | Amazona albifrons | Diopsittaca nobilis | Psittacula eupatria |
Eclectus roratus | Amazona amazonica | Pionites melanocephalus | Psittacus erithacus |
(c) if the collection of the bird feathers referred to in the plan is carried out in accordance with the plan.
3. An annual report must be submitted to Wildlife Trade Assessments section, Department of the Environment by 30 June each year, and detail
a) The number of feathers from each species from each supplier collected in the previous 12 months
b) The number of feathers from each species from each supplier exported in the previous 12 months
Dated this 2nd day of June 2015
Paul Murphy
Assistant Secretary, Wildlife Trade and Biosecurity Branch