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Not all breaches of law are prosecuted (even
counting just the small proportion detected). Surely the bureacracy would be
most unlikely to bother pursuing a prosecution, if all that was being done was
picking up roadkills etc for sending to a museum, (without a permit) if there is
no reason for the bureacracy to doubt that that is indeed what is happening. The
various fauna bureacracies in each state would surely have better things to do
with their resources than to waste them on frivolous pursuits like that.
I have collected and donated such specimens
several times and (although I have an ACT permit) I would continue to do so on
that basis, if the situation (mainly condition & species of specimen and the
distance to museum etc.) warranted it. The most remote place I have done this is
a Pratincole I found dead by the road out somewhere in NW NSW, that I took to
the NPWS office, if I remember rightly, at Tibooburra or a Brush Bronzewing I
found at Jervis Bay that I took to ANWC in CSIRO in Canberra (in that case it
also involved interstate transport, also illegal but who cares).
Philip
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Date:
Wednesday, 14 May 2003 15:03
Subject: [BIRDING-AUS] Collecting
dead birds (Vict.)
Some further information on this
issue from a Victorian perspective.
The relevant legislation covering
the taking etc of wildlife (whether dead
or alive, and parts thereof) in
Victoria is the Wildlife Act 1975 (and
amendments) not the Flora and
Fauna Guarantee Act 1988 which addresses the
conservation of native taxa
and communities and ameliorating threatening
processes.
I have
just asked for advice from my colleagues in the Wildlife Licensing
and
permits section and they have given the following
information:
'Basically it (picking up roadkills) is not permitted
under the Wildlife
Act unless you have special authorisation (permit)
which presumably the
Museum does.'
I don't know enough about
permits to comment on the Museum's ability to
accept roadkills from the
public.
For those interested, I can supply contact details for our
Licensing
Section. Plaese contact me
directly.
cheers
Martin O'Brien
Executive Scientific
Officer, Scientific Advisory Committee
Department of Sustainability and
Environment
4/250 Victoria Pde., East Melbourne
3002
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