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Don't Talk To the Hunters - NSW Game and Feral Animal Control Amendment

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Subject: Don't Talk To the Hunters - NSW Game and Feral Animal Control Amendment Bill 2012
From: "Brook Whylie" <>
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 15:00:09 +0930

        Not that I agree with hunting in National Parks, however the GAME
AND FERAL ANIMAL CONTROL AMENDMENT BILL 2009 is not the amendment that
has been passed.

        My understanding is the amendment that has been passed is the GAME
AND FERAL ANIMAL CONTROL AMENDMENT BILL 2012. The 2009 Bill was a wish
list put up by the Shooters back in 2009. 

        A link to the Bill is
http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/parlment/nswbills.nsf/131a07fa4b8a041cca256e610012de17/c8afc0c4709e478bca25788e0005e862/$FILE/85441697.pdf/b2011-163-d15-House.pdf
[1]

        Part of the amendment is the following:

        GAME ANIMALS THAT MAY BE HUNTED

        Schedule 1 [6] recasts the provision of the Act that specifies the
non-indigenous

        game animals that may be hunted under the authority conferred by a
game hunting

        licence so that the provision refers instead to a list set out in
proposed Schedule 3 to

        the Act (as inserted by Schedule 1 [30]). The list of game animals
contains 2 separate

        parts (eg the game animals currently referred to in section 5 (2) of
the Act will now

        be listed in Part 2 of the new Schedule). The list will be able to be
amended by

        Ministerial order, BUT NATIVE ANIMALS WILL NOT BE ABLE TO BE ADDED.

          

        The Schedules are the following:

        SCHEDULE 3 GAME ANIMALS

        (Section 5)

        PART 1 NON-INDIGENOUS GAME ANIMALS (LICENCE REQUIRED TO HUNT ON
PUBLIC OR PRIVATE LAND)

        BIRDS

        Bobwhite Quail (Colinus virginianus)

        California Quail (Lophortyx callipepla californicus)

        Guinea Fowl (Numida meleagris)

        Partridge (Alectors alectoris chukar)

        Peafowl (Pavo cristatus)

        Pheasant (Phasiniacus phasianus colchicus)

        Spotted Dove (Streptopelia chinensis)

        Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) 

          

        OTHER ANIMALS

        Deer (Family cervidae)

        PART 2 NON-INDIGENOUS ANIMALS (LICENCE REQUIRED TO HUNT ON PUBLIC
LAND ONLY)

        NOTE. A game hunting licence is NOT required for hunting the animals
listed in this Part on private land, and accordingly is only required
if the animals are living in the wild on public land—see section 17.

        Cat

        Dog (other than dingo)

        Goat

        Fox

        Hare

        Rabbit

        Pig

        Common Starling (_Sturnus vulgaris_)

        Common or Indian Myna (_Acridotheres tristis_)

        Feral Pigeon (_Columba livia_) 

          

        So, on reading the amendment, the hunting of native animals cannot be
approved by this amendment. 

          

        Regards 

        Brook




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