Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-10-23-Speech-3-318"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-10-23"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:CITES2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20021023.8.3-318"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-10-23-Speech-3-3192
lpv:speaker	lp:Alexander de Roo2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; GroenLinks (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; AGRI (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; G/EFA (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Cyprus Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3 substitute; Temporary committee on foot and mouth disease (2002-01-17--2002-12-17)3 vice-chair; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-22--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"I would also like to speak about the elephants. Five countries in southern Africa want to sell their stocks of ivory. That would be very wrong. The previous CITES conferences took the decision to stop protecting the elephant. Unfortunately that was approved by the Commission with the majority of the fifteen EU governments, but against the wishes of the European Parliament. This has proved disastrous. Illegal elephant poaching is now taking place on a much bigger scale, also in southern Africa. The Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy proposes unanimously to give elephants full protection once more. The Commission must abandon its cowardly, half-hearted position. MIKE does not work. Let us use European money – EUR 10 to 15 million would be enough – to buy up and destroy southern Africa's ivory stocks, and if the majority of the European governments will not agree to that, then the NGOs will have to collect enough money to stop all the elephants being sold off. There are only 10 000 elephants left in Asia and 300 000 in Africa. Twenty years ago, in 1981, there were as many as 1 500 000. Whoever maintains that elephants are in a strong position is mistaken. I do not approve of the culling of elephants; it is uncivilised. I am curious to see who will vote for culling tomorrow."@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"(monitoring of illegal killing of elephants)"1

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