AR-News: (AU) Death threat to rare animals

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By Amanda Hodge, Environment writer
March 27, 2004 
STARVING and doomed one month, reprieved the next, time is again running out 
for hundreds of rare and endangered animals in bureaucratic limbo on Tipperary 
Station as the Northern Territory Government looks into the legalities of 
putting them down.

A briefing from the NT Parks and Wildlife Commission, obtained by The Weekend 
Australian, says the commission is seeking clarification from the federal 
Government on whether animals listed under the Convention on International Trade 
in Endangered Species can legally be shot. The briefing notes that the 
Tipperary owners do not require permission to shoot animals at the station that are 
not listed under CITES. 
The news is the latest in a string of blows for David Gill, the British owner 
of a north Queensland private zoo, who bought 100 of Tipperary's rarest 
animals from former owner Warren Anderson. 



full story:

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,9086522%255E3041
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