Declaration of an Approved Wildlife Trade Operation Queen of Ants (Cth)

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

DECLARATION OF AN APPROVED WILDLIFE TRADE OPERATION QUEEN OF ANTS

I, Belinda Jago, Branch Head, Ocean and Wildlife Branch, as Delegate of the Minister for the Environment and Water under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, am satisfied that the Queen of Ants operation, 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 of Ants 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 Wildlife Trade Operation Proposal - Queen of Ants, submitted to the department on 1 March 2023.

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.

Genus Annual harvest quota

Amblyopone 1000

Anonychomyrma 1000

Aphaenogaster 1000

Brachyponera 1000

Camponotus 1000

Calomyrmex 1000

Crematogaster 1000

Dolichoderus 1000

Iridomyrmex 1000

Leptomyrmex 1000

Lioponera 1000

Mayriella 1000

Melophorus 1000

Meranoplus 1000

Monomorium 1000

Myrmecia* 1000

Notoncus 1000

Nylanderia 1000

Oecophylla 1000

Opisthopsis 1000

Orectognathus 1000

Pheidole 1000

Podomyrma 1000

Polyrhachis 1000

Pseudoneoponera 50

Pseudonotoncus 50

Pseudoponera 50

Rhopalomastix 50

Rhopalothrix 50

Romblonella 50

Rhytidoponera 1000

Solenopsis 1000

Stereomyrmex 50

Stigmacros 1000

Strumigenys 50