COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

DECLARATION OF AN APPROVED WILDLIFE TRADE OPERATION

1. I, Greg Hunt, Minister for the Environment:  

(a)          having considered the comments that were given in response to an invitation under section 303FR(1) of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Cth) (EPBC Act); and

(b)          being satisfied as to the matters set out in section 303FN of the EPBC Act,

declare that the Wildlife Trade Operation for Export of Rufous Wallaby Thylogale billardierii Fur from Tasmania (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:

(i)             Rufous wallaby (Thylogale billardierii)

(c)          if the commercial harvest 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 31 March each year, and detail results of wallaby population monitoring by the Tasmanian government; the weight of fur exported; and the total take of wallabies in Tasmania (both commercial and non-commercial).

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Dated this ....... 21st ................. day of ........... April .............................. 2015

........................  Greg Hunt ..................................

Minister for the Environment