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Approved wildlife trade management plans replace the former category of Approved management programs. Approval of a management program made under subsection 10(2) of the Wildlife Protection (Regulation of Exports and Imports) Act 1982 is recognised as an approved wildlife trade management plan under the transitional arrangements of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (the Act). These plans will continue in force until the date on which the original declaration is due to cease.
Commercial exports may be permitted for specimens taken in accordance with the provisions of an approved wildlife trade management plan. Wildlife trade management plans must meet the requirements specified in section 303FO of the Act in order to be approved. Wildlife trade management plans may be approved for a period of up to five years.
Approval of a wildlife management plan is made through an instrument signed by the Minister and published in the Gazette. The Minister may specify the period, the circumstances or conditions under which accreditation will occur in the declaration (subsection 303FT(4)). A declaration may be varied by specifying additional or new conditions or revoking or varying existing conditions by a subsequent instrument published in the Gazette (subsection 303FT(7)). A declaration must be revoked if the Minister is satisfied that a condition of the declaration has been contravened (subsection 303FT(9)). A declaration may be revoked at any time.
The approved wildlife trade management plans that are currently approved under the EPBC Act are listed below.
Conditions of approval, additional to the species covered and period of approval, are specified in the individual declarations. The declarations published on this web site are electronic copies of the original declarations published in the Commonwealth Gazette. They are reproduced, including typographical errors where present, as close as possible to the original document.
| State | Program Name | Species | Organisation |
Approval Period
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Declaration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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From
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To
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| New South Wales | Kangaroo |
Macropus
rufus
Macropus
fuliginosus
Macropus
giganteus Macropus robustus erubescens |
New South Wales Department of Environment and Conservation |
1 January 2007 |
31 December 2011 |
|
| Northern Territory | Management Plan for Crocodylus porosus in the Northern Territory | Crocodylus porosus | Parks and Wildlife Commission of the Northern Territory |
1 July 2005
|
30 June 2010
|
|
| Queensland | Wildlife Trade Management Plan for Export - Commercially Harvested Macropods | Macropus rufus Macropus giganteus Macropus robustus |
Queensland Environmental Protection Authority |
1 January 2008
|
31 December 2012
|
|
| Queensland | Approved Wildlife Trade Management Plan for flora in Queensland | Protected plants | Queensland Environmental Protection Agency |
1 January 2006
|
31 December 2010
|
|
| South Australia | The Kangaroo Conservation and Management Plan for South Australia | Macropus rufus Macropus fuliginosus Macropus robustus |
Department for Environment and Heritage |
1 January 2008
|
31 December 2012
|
|
| Tasmania | Flinders and King Island Wallaby Management Plans | Bennett's wallaby (Macropus rufogriseus) Tasmanian Pademelon (Thylogale billardierii)* *Tasmanian Pademelons are approved for Flinders Island only |
Department of Primary Industries, Water and Environment |
1 December 2005
|
30 June 2010
|
|
| Tasmania | Tree Fern Management Plan for the Sustainable Harvesting, Transporting or Trading of Dicksonia antarctica in Tasmania | Dicksonia antarctica | Tasmanian Forest Practices Authority |
25th July 2007
|
24th July 2012
|
|
| Western Australia | Saltwater Crocodile (Crocodylus porosus) and Freshwater Crocodile (Crocodylus johnstoni) Management Plan for Western Australia 2004-2008 | Crocodylus porosus, C. johnstoni | Department of Conservation and Land Management |
1 January 2004
|
31 December 2008
|
|
| Western Australia | Management Plan for the Commercial Harvest of Kangaroos in Western Australia | Macropus rufus Macropus fuliginosus (Note: Euros are covered under a Wildlife Trade Operation) |
Department of Conservation and Land Management |
1 January 2008
|
31 December 2012
|
|
| Western Australia | Western Australia Flora | See Plan | Department of Environment and Conservation |
2 July 2008
|
30 June 2013
|
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