destruction permit

English

Etymology

destruction + permit

Pronunciation

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Noun

destruction permit (plural destruction permits)

1. (Australia) A government license to kill or remove fauna that would otherwise be protected.
   • 2001 February 28, Iain Evans (Minister for Environment and Heritage), Letter to the editor, The Courier,

     I refer to your reports and letters to the editor regarding the decision to replace the requirement for a written destruction permit to shoot common native parrots causing damage to commercial orchards with a proclamation advertised generally in the media.

   • 2010, Brigitte M. Stevens, Wombat Mitigation Program: National Wildlife Rehabilitation Conference 2010:

     The questionnaire, already undertaken by 72 landowners within the Murraylands region of South Australia has provided incredible information such as the ratio of how many people apply for destruction permits, methods utilised to destroy wombats and their burrow systems, why the wombats are being persecuted and just how small populations of wombats cause such distress to these landowners.