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Trade in Endangered Species Act 1989

Exemptions

32: Scientific transfer

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"Scientists can swap or lend endangered animals and plants with other scientists if they follow the rules."

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If you are a scientist in New Zealand, you can loan, donate, or exchange certain items with other scientists in New Zealand or other countries. These items include plants and animals that are endangered, and they must have a special label approved by the Director-General. You can exchange herbarium plants, live plants, preserved animals, and live animals, but only if you are recognised by the Director-General or the relevant authorities in other countries, and if you follow the rules in Part 1.

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Part 2Exemptions

32Scientific transfer

  1. Part 1 shall not apply to the non-commercial loan, donation, or exchange between scientists or scientific institutions in New Zealand recognised by the Director-General and scientists or scientific institutions in other States recognised by the relevant authorities of those States, of—

  2. herbarium and other preserved, dried, or embedded plants:
    1. live plants:
      1. preserved animals, and skins of animals:
        1. live animals,—
            1. that are specimens of an endangered, threatened, or exploited species and which carry a label issued or approved by the Director-General.