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• General permit application (PDF - 1.54 MB)
• Supplementary form C1 (PDF - 1.28 MB)
• Supplementary form C2 (PDF - 1.17 MB)
• Action description (PDF - 661 KB)
• Animal ethics (PDF - 866 KB)
• Scientific permit 1 (PDF - 1.5 MB)
• Scientific permit 2 (PDF - 1.9 MB)

About the application

The Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts has received an application for a permit to kill, injure, take, trade, keep or move a listed threatened species and ecological community in a Commonwealth Area under Part 13, section 200 of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act). The application is to translocate 12 long-nosed potoroo from Cape Conran in Victoria to Booderee National Park in New South Wales. Long-nosed potoroo (Potorous tridactylus tridactylus) is listed as vulnerable under the EPBC Act.

Please see the documents above for further details on the proposal.

If the application for a permit to conduct the activity is approved the permit will be valid for a period of up to five years.

In accordance with the provisions of section 200(3), of the Act, you are invited to comment on this proposal.

Please submit your comments by 23 October 2009.

Please include your full name and address in your submission.

Comments should be addressed to:

The Director
Commonwealth and Territories Section
Environment Assessment Branch
Approvals and Wildlife Division
Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts
GPO Box 787
Canberra ACT 2601

or can be e-mailed to: EPBC.permits@environment.gov.au

To assist in considering comments, you are encouraged to provide comments under the following headings:

• Management and methodology
• Monitoring procedures
• Ecological sustainability of the operation
• Animal welfare
• Other