You got to admit things are crazy though. I can get jaguars for £100 or less; by you they may go for a couple of grand (or more). There seems that there can be more money to be made in smuggling animals into and out of your country than can be earned from smuggling drugs. Worst of all is this is simply down to your wildlife import/export regulations!
I may be seeing things here all wrong but if you Government were to get onto this one it could earn
a fortune in taxes on
exporting AU captive bred animals (birds, reptiles, fish, mammals) together with what it could make on regulating chosen imports which it could also make a few quid on taxes too.
ps. I fully appreciate why you would not want to import mongrels seeing as your habitats would encourage escapees to flourish and become pests so maybe that part is a no go
but eh send us some nice albino Darwin's at rock bottom prices please (you can even have the ashes).