peteroz
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Country: Australia
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Post by peteroz on Apr 26, 2016 13:16:55 GMT
does anyone have any advice about this? I want to take my collection (n=200, caught in the 1970's) of British and European butterflies to Australia as personal/household effects. None is on either Appendix I or II of the CITES list (very few European butterflies appear to be - only Papilio hospiton and Parnassius apollo) and from what I can see I don't need an export permit (or import permit for that matter) if they are personal effects as part of a house move. Not for sale etc. thanks.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2016 7:08:48 GMT
Peter,
I brought my entire collection of British butterflies, moths and other insects, plus my Zambian leps and thousands of mixed PNG insects, to Australia in 1995... There was no problem with customs. My few CITES specimens were assigned import numbers in the UK before I arrived and they also passed through OK. Please bear in mind that this was more than 20 years ago and things may have tightened up... I am receiving non-CITES insects through the mail nearly every week from UK, Germany, Austria, Indonesia, China, Vietnam, Malaysia, etc... A parcel gets opened and checked occasionally, but the majority come in without any inspection... Try getting Aussie insects out, that is a whole new ball game!!!
Cheers,Baz
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Post by nomad on Apr 30, 2016 6:50:18 GMT
I believe a mutual friend, did it the other way round and bought his collection from Oz to England but that was some time ago.
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