19Wildlife conservation programs

##### 19 Wildlife conservation programs (1) The Director may: (a) formulate and implement; and (b) co-operate with a State or the Northern Territory or with an authority of a State or of the Northern Territory in formulating and implementing; programs for the purposes of the protection, conservation, management and control of wildlife. (2) A program formulated under subsection (1) shall be based upon, among other matters: (a) an examination of the habitat of the wildlife to which the program relates; (b) an evaluation of the extent to which parks and reserves (including parks and reserves established under a law of a State or Territory) assist in the conservation of the wildlife to which the program relates; (c) an assessment and analysis of the population of the wildlife to which the program relates; and (d) consideration of the obligations of Australia under agreements between Australia and other countries relating to the protection and conservation of wildlife; and shall provide for the review, at appropriate intervals, of the matters referred to in paragraphs (a), (b), (c) and (d). (3) This section is not intended to exclude or limit the concurrent operation of any law of a State or of the Northern Territory. (4) A program shall not be implemented by the Director under this section until it has been approved by the Minister.