Fauna (Protection and Control) Garu Wildlife Management Area Rules 1977

Fauna (Protection and Control) Garu Wildlife Management Area Rules 1977 INDEPENDENT STATE OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA. MADE under the Fauna (Protection and Control) Act 1966. 1. Interpretation. In these Rules, unless the contrary intention appears— "the Area" means the Garu Wildlife Management Area; "egg-burrow" means the nesting burrow of the wild fowl; "wild fowl" does not include eggs of the wild fowl. 2. Prohibition on hunting of wild fowl. A person shall not take or kill any wild fowl in the Area. 3. Restrictions on the taking of eggs. (1) A person, other than a person who has customary egg harvesting rights within the Area, shall not take or disturb any eggs in the Area. (2) A person who has customary egg harvesting rights within the Area may take eggs only on Tuesday and Thursday in each week and shall not take more than 80 eggs on any one day. (3) Eggs with embryos shall not be taken, and any such eggs which are removed from their egg-burrows shall be returned to their egg-burrows. 4. Protection of egg-burrows. A person who, while taking eggs from an egg-burrow, removes any soil from that egg burrow, shall replace the soil in such a manner so as to cause the least possible disturbance to that egg-burrow. 5. Dogs not allowed near egg-burrows. A person, being— (a) the owner of a dog; or (b) a person who has, for the time being, exclusive control of a dog, shall not allow that dog within 500 m of an egg-burrow. 6. Restriction on use of shotguns. Subject to any other law, shotguns may be used to take or kill fauna other than wild fowl in the Area only by persons having customary rights to take or kill fauna in the Area. 7. Prohibition on cutting trees, etc. (1) Subject to Subsection (2), a person shall not cut or destroy trees in the Area. (2) A person who has customary rights to cut or destroy trees in the Area may cut or destroy trees only in the parts of the Area to which his customary rights apply. © 2005 University of the South Pacific