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V. prasinus were placed on the NSW then NPWS reptile list as a result of animals claimed to be kept at the time of the initial amnesty in the 1990s. As this was not checked up many things were claimed to be held. There were also a large number of exotics also. None of the animals on the lists were ever gazzetted by the Federal Government and therefore remained illegal exotics under Federal law. In deal brokered by the then head of licensing animals held at the time of the amnesty were allowed to be kept until they died but were not to be traded, bred or given away.
Prasinus may be accepted in NSW on paper but that does not mean that the Federal government do or that any other state does. In QLD GTPs and eclectus parrots are classed as pandemic species, not native. V. prasinus if it were proven to be found naturally in Qld would need to join those two species. I do not believe that they currently do. I would suggest that the EPA in Qld and Primary Industries in Canberra would not look upon the species as native.
Prasinus may be accepted in NSW on paper but that does not mean that the Federal government do or that any other state does. In QLD GTPs and eclectus parrots are classed as pandemic species, not native. V. prasinus if it were proven to be found naturally in Qld would need to join those two species. I do not believe that they currently do. I would suggest that the EPA in Qld and Primary Industries in Canberra would not look upon the species as native.