The North Queensland Land Council wants a licence to export native flora
and fauna.
Council chairman Terry O'Shane says the body wants permission from the
Federal Government to harvest animals and plants from land where it has
native title rights.
He says allowing Aboriginal people to hunt and export fauna and flora
would help stop the illegal trade.
Mr O'Shane says it would also create employment and conservation
opportunities for Aboriginal people.
"It would develop an economy for us which would allow our people to stay
on country for the whole of the year," he said.
"We would be able to go through and monitor the reptiles and birds and
so forth and so on.
"We would monitor all that happening, the time of the season when they
are going through their mating time [and] where they are nesting." |
