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COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

DECLARATION OF AN APPROVED WILDLIFE TRADE OPERATION –
QUEEN ANTS TRADING AS  FLUYT

I, Adam Sincock, Principal Director, Wildlife Trade Office, as Delegate of the Minister for the Environment and Water under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, am satisfied that the operation conducted by Queen Ant trading as Fluyt to harvest and export live queen ants from Australian native taxa, is a small-scale operation, as defined by regulation 9A.20(2) under subsection 303FN(10)(b). I declare under subsection 303FN(2) that Queen Ants trading as Fluyt is an approved wildlife trade operation.

This declaration has effect subject to the following conditions applied under S303FT:

     1. The operation is to be undertaken in accordance with the proposal submitted to the department on 10 November 2022.

     2. Annual harvest for export is restricted to the following native ant taxa. Harvest levels must not exceed the maximum quantities set out for each genus. Additional taxa can be exported only after approval from the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water.

Genus          Annual harvest quota

Amblyopone     100

Aphaenogaster  200

Camponotus     200

Dolichoderus   100

Iridomyrmex    300

Leptomyrmex    100

Melophorus     100

Meranoplus     100

Monomorium     100

Myrmecia       200

Orectognathus  100

Pheidole       200

Podomyrma      100

Polyrhachis    100

Rhytidoponera  200

    3.      For the purposes of this approval, harvest of the specified taxa is only permitted to be undertaken within Victoria on the private properties listed in proposal. Specimens sourced outside of these private properties are not considered part of this approval and cannot be commercially exported.

    4.      Wild harvest must not involve any excavation or damage to existing ant nests or colonies.

    5.      This declaration is valid for three (3) years from the date of registration on the Federal Register of Legislation.

    6.      Queen Ants trading as Fluyt must submit annual reports to the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water by 1 December each year.

    The annual report must include:

           * The total number of ants harvested by genus, harvesting dates and locations.
           * A summary of the existing and new colony surveys completed for each property, including a yearly comparison of the number of surveys completed, survey methodology, survey timing and the outcomes.

Dated this 20th day of February 2023

Adam Sincock
………….…….……………………….........
Delegate of the Minister for the Environment and Water

A person whose interests are affected by this declaration may, within 28 days, make an application in writing to the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water for the reasons for the decision.

An application for independent review of the decision (under section 303GJ(1) of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999) may be made to the Administrative