(March 25, 2026)—An alliance of animal welfare groups is calling out Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan MP as stakeholders were informed that long-awaited reform to the state’s animal welfare legislation may not make it in front of parliament this year due to a busy agenda and fewer sitting days. The Australian...
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.
