Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation List of CITES Species Amendment (2025/002) Instrument 2025

I, Jessica Hoey, Delegate of the Minister for the Environment and Water, make the following instrument.

5 February 2025 

Jessica Hoey

Delegate of the Minister for the Environment and Water

Note: CITES means the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora made at Washington on 3 March 1973, as amended and in force for Australia from time to time.

Contents

1  Name

2  Commencement

3  Authority

4  Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

1  Name

  This instrument is the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation List of CITES Species Amendment (2025/002) Instrument 2025.

2  Commencement

This instrument commences on the 7 February 2025.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made pursuant to subsection 303CA(9) of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

List of CITES Species for the Purposes of the Act (29/11/2001)

1   In the appropriate position under the heading Phylum: Chordata (Chordates)

Under the heading Phylum: Chordata (Chordates), Class: Reptilia, Order: Testudines, Family: Geoemydidae, omit:

2   In the appropriate position under the heading Phylum: Chordata (Chordates)

Under the heading Phylum: Chordata (Chordates), Class: Reptilia, Order: Squamata, Suborder: Sauria, omit one of the duplicates of: