[Greens-Media] Wildlife killing has little oversight, says new report

[Elizabeth.Ingham at parliament.vic.gov.au]

Victorian Greens Leader Greg Barber says the oversight of wildlife killing 
permits is so bad the DSE should stop issuing them, after today's damning 
Auditor-General's report.*

"The DSE has powers to monitor and enforce permit conditions, but they're 
not using them. They're meant to keep decent records, but information is 
inaccurate or missing. They are meant to keep tabs on who is given 
permission to kill wildlife, but they usually renew the licence without 
checking," said Greg Barber.

"A permit to cull a dozen kangaroos, wombats or wallabies could lead to 
hundreds being killed and no one would ever know."

"As the Auditor-General put it, 'DSE cannot accurately quantify and track 
the number of licenses, permits and authorisations it issues'," said Mr 
Barber.

For comment: Greg Barber - 0433 044 771

* 
http://www.audit.vic.gov.au/reports_and_publications/latest_reports/2012-13/20121024-compliance-dpi-dse.aspx 
- especially pp 27-28.

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Liz Ingham
Office of Greg Barber MLC
Northern Metropolitan Region
Victorian Greens Leader

P: 9348 2622
M: 0409 333 595
E: elizabeth.ingham at parliament.vic.gov.au
W: http://mps.vic.greens.org.au

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