Wildlife trade and conservation publications

General

• If in doubt - check it out: Does your luggage break wildlife laws? - 2008
• Conditions for the Overseas Transfer of Australian native animals
• Guide to the Import and Export of Wildlife Specimens for Non-Commercial Purposes - 2002
• Healthy People - Healthy Wildlife - proceedings of the Second Australian Symposium on Traditional Medicine and Wildlife Conservation. Melbourne. Australia, March 1999.
• Hoodia - Wildlife Trade Factsheet
• Pills, plants and animals - A guide to complementary medicines trade and conservation - 2008
• Basking Shark (Cetorhinus maximus) Identification sheet for CITES listed species - September 2007
• Great White Shark (Carcharodon carcharias) Identification sheet for CITES listed species - September 2007
• Whale Shark (Rhincodon typus) Identification sheet for CITES listed species - September 2007

Crocodiles

• Draft Code of Practice on the Humane Treatment of Captive and Wild Australian Crocodiles

Exotic Animals and Hybrids

• Keeping it legal: Exotic birdkeeping in Australia
• Inventory of Exotic (non-native) Bird Species known to be in Australia

Amendments to the Live Import List

• Savannah Cat - final environmental assessment of the suitability of the import of the Savannah Cat into Australia - July 2008

Import/Export factsheets

• The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)
• How to import and export butterflies
• How to import and export crocodile, alligator and caiman products
• How to import and export elephant products, including ivory
• How to import and export hoodia
• How to import and export kangaroo products
• How to import and export pet birds
• How to export or import hunting trophies
• How to export or import caviar
• How to obtain a permit to import and export wildlife or wildlife products
• International Wildlife Trade: Complying with permits

Kangaroos

• Background Information - Commercial Kangaroo Harvest Quotas - 2007
• Commercial Harvesting of Kangaroos in Australia
• Code of Practice for the Humane Shooting of Kangaroos
• Kangaroo Shooting Code Compliance - 2002
• Humane harvesting of Kangaroos 2003
• Humane harvesting of Kangaroos 2002

Marine issues

• The Australian Marine Molluscs Considered to be Potentially Vulnerable to the Shell Trade - 1998

Possums

• Management Program for the Brushtail Possum Trichosurus vulpecula (Kerr) in Tasmania - Review of Background Information

Plants

• National grasstree harvesting guidelines
• National tree fern harvesting guidelines
• Review of the Commercial Domestic Trade in Long-lived Native Plants
• The Sustainability of Sphagnum moss Harvesting in Australia