Bridget McKenzie (Victoria, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

I seek leave to amend general business notice of motion No. 1307 standing in my name for today relating to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora in the terms circulated in the chamber.

Leave granted.

I move the motion as amended:

That the Senate—

(a) notes the importance of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, and specifically that signatories to the convention:

(i) are conscious of the value of wild fauna and flora from aesthetic, scientific, cultural, recreational and economic points of view,

(ii) recognise that peoples and states are and should be the best protectors of their own wild fauna and flora, and

(iii) recognise that wild flora and fauna are an irreplaceable part of the natural systems of the earth, needing conservation for generations to come;

(b) acknowledges that flora and fauna have value to recreational users of our national parks; and

(c) supports the different values that are placed on flora and fauna by different people and groups, and agrees those different values should be balanced through sustainable usage approach.