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Wildlife Trade Operation for the export of kangaroo skins as a by-product of the Victorian Government’s Kangaroo Pet Food Trial

Due to the impacts of coronavirus on working arrangements, stakeholders are requested to contact the Wildlife Trade Sections via email rather than telephone. Please email wps@awe.gov.au with any questions about applying for a permit or for queries relating to existing permit applications. If you have an existing application, please include your application reference number in your email. We will respond to your query as soon as possible.

Application for approval of a small-scale Wildlife Trade Operation for the commercial export of skins obtained as a by-product of kangaroos processed during the Victorian Government’s Kangaroo Pet Food Trial, for consideration under part 13A of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

About the Wildlife Trade Operation

The Department of the Environment has received an application for a Wildlife Trade Operation under part 13A, section 303FN of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (the EPBC Act). The application is for the commercial export of kangaroo skins obtained as a by-product of the Victorian government’s Kangaroo Pet Food Trial.

Should the operation be approved it is proposed that it remain in force for up to three (3) years.

In accordance with the provisions of section 303FR of the EPBC Act, you are invited to comment on this proposal. Please submit your comments by 9 January 2015. Please include your full name and address in your submission.

Comments should be addressed to:

The Director
Wildlife Trade Assessments
Department of the Environment
GPO Box 787
CANBERRA ACT 2601
or can be emailed to: wta@environment.gov.au

To assist us in considering comments, the Department of the Environment encourages you to provide comments under the following headings:

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