COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

DECLARATION OF AN APPROVED WILDLIFE TRADE MANAGEMENT PLAN

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 Management Plan for the Commercial Exporting of Bennett’s and
Rufous Wallaby Meat, Skins and 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 only subject to the declaration in paragraph 1:

(a)       for a period of three years

(b)       to the extent that the Plan relates to specimens from the following species:

(i)         Bennett’s wallaby (Macropus rufogriseus rufogriseus);

(ii)        Rufous wallaby (Thylogale billardierii)

(c)       if the commercial harvest referred to in the plan is carried out in accordance
with the plan.

Dated this _.........23rd _{...............} day of _{................}April_{.........................} 2014

_{............................} Greg Hunt_{..............................}

Minister for the Environment