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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-03-12"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Biodiversity2
dcterms:Language	"da"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20020312.11.2-275"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-03-12-Speech-2-2762
lpv:speaker	lp:Ulla Margrethe Sandbæk2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Committee on Development and Cooperation (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2003-03-24)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Palestinian Legislative Council (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 substitute; EMPL (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 unknown; JuniBevægelsen (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; EDD (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) (2002-02-06--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, first of all I should like to congratulate the rapporteur, Mrs Isler Béguin, on her brilliant report. My only objection is that, because most of the world’s biological diversity exists in tropical areas in the developing countries, I should like to have seen the development aspect given a rather more prominent place in the report. Paragraph 49 calls for EU support for measures aimed at encouraging indigenous peoples to manage and preserve biodiversity. I have tabled an amendment adjusting the wording to the effect that the EU should support the role which, in virtue of its traditional knowledge, the original population plays in preserving and managing biodiversity. That applies especially to protected areas in which it is important for the indigenous peoples to participate in management so that forced relocations and inadequate access to resources are prevented. I have tabled an amendment with a view to having this aspect included in the report. In a number of developing countries, there is a clear need to be able to derive economic benefits from the sustainable use of wild resources, if people are to have an incentive to preserve stocks. In southern Africa, elephant populations have become so large that they destroy biodiversity and, given the economic situation of the countries concerned, it is completely unreasonable that the latter should not be able to obtain an income from their elephants. Biodiversity is now being lost at an unprecedented rate but, for all that, nothing has really happened since Rio. Biodiversity has become a concept that has been put on the back burner, and it is now our task to try to keep it on the agenda. In order to tackle the issue of conservation, it is necessary to protect the whole ecosystem. The Community’s cooperation programmes have proved to be sustainable alternatives to a protectionist approach, and I am able fully to support this way of thinking."@en1

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