Humane World for Animals Australia says risks to nature outweigh the gains in long anticipated reforms to Australia’s nature laws, tabled in parliament today. Having previewed the amendments to the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act tabled today, Humane World for Animals Australia’s Director, Campaigns, Nicola Beynon says the...
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.
