When disaster strikes, wildlife rescue is rarely quick or simple. It is a slow, meticulous act of care that often begins with a single phone call from a worried member of the public, or a sighting by a search team moving through burned country. During the ongoing bushfires in Victoria, Humane World for Animals teams have been...
On 14 September 2014, the listing of the scalloped, great and smooth hammerhead sharks on the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) Appendix II took effect.
The ability for Australia to continue to export the three listed hammerhead shark species is made possible through a positive “non-detriment finding” (NDF) made by Australia, which included defined harvest limits.
The 2014 positive NDF for hammerhead shark species was subject to a number of conditions. In February, AMCS and HSI commissioned a report against each of those conditions.
