Declaration of an Approved Wildlife Trade Operation – Queen Ants Trading as Fluyt (Cth)

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.