http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/baird-government-declares-open-season-on-native-animals-20161001-grsv5m.html

A licence to kill native animals has been labelled “red tape” by the Baird government and will be abolished, prompting warnings the move will declare “open season” on kangaroos, emus, wombats and cockatoos.

Last year 47,000 native animals and birds were killed in NSW by property owners using a “s121 licence”. Each licence strictly controls the number of animals permitted to killed, and requires data to be lodged with the Office of Environment and Heritage.

The office issued permits for 34 species, or a total of 145,550 animals and birds to be killed in 2015-16. This included more than 100,000 eastern grey kangaroos, almost 9000 corellas, 6500 sulphur crested cockatoos, 5500 galahs, 655 emus, 175 swamp wallabies, 113 wombats and 83 magpies.

An application to kill kookaburras at North Head by a lessee in Sydney Harbour National Park was refused.

But the annual list will be the last published, as the Baird government prepares to introduce a controversial Biodiversity Conservation Act to NSW Parliament this month.

The Royal Zoological Society of NSW has warned that removing the licence will cause the neglect of three-quarters of protected fauna in NSW and “will almost certainly miss the species that are sliding towards threatened status”.

Last year, 47,000 native animals were killed in NSW by property owners using a ‘s121 licence’, including 315 emu.

Stopping the recording of native species being harmed, numbers killed, and locations, “is to abandon global-standard wildlife management practices”, the society said.
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> Last year 47,000 native animals and birds were killed in NSW by property owners using a “s121 licence”. Each licence strictly controls the number of animals permitted to killed, and requires data to be lodged with the Office of Environment and Heritage.

Still negligible compared with the 27 million native animal scalps collected by the Qld government between 1887 and 1930.

But this new legislation is definitely a big step in the wrong direction.

dv said:

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/baird-government-declares-open-season-on-native-animals-20161001-grsv5m.html

A licence to kill native animals has been labelled “red tape” by the Baird government and will be abolished, prompting warnings the move will declare “open season” on kangaroos, emus, wombats and cockatoos.

Last year 47,000 native animals and birds were killed in NSW by property owners using a “s121 licence”. Each licence strictly controls the number of animals permitted to killed, and requires data to be lodged with the Office of Environment and Heritage.

The office issued permits for 34 species, or a total of 145,550 animals and birds to be killed in 2015-16. This included more than 100,000 eastern grey kangaroos, almost 9000 corellas, 6500 sulphur crested cockatoos, 5500 galahs, 655 emus, 175 swamp wallabies, 113 wombats and 83 magpies.

An application to kill kookaburras at North Head by a lessee in Sydney Harbour National Park was refused.

But the annual list will be the last published, as the Baird government prepares to introduce a controversial Biodiversity Conservation Act to NSW Parliament this month.

The Royal Zoological Society of NSW has warned that removing the licence will cause the neglect of three-quarters of protected fauna in NSW and “will almost certainly miss the species that are sliding towards threatened status”.

Last year, 47,000 native animals were killed in NSW by property owners using a ‘s121 licence’, including 315 emu.

Stopping the recording of native species being harmed, numbers killed, and locations, “is to abandon global-standard wildlife management practices”, the society said.
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The figures are bullshit. The farmers don’t report all the killings.