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"Madam President, trade is not necessarily the enemy of conservation. Providing people with an incentive to treat endangered species as a renewable resource can often be a strong ally of the endangered species. I have mentioned in this Chamber before the contrasting stories of what has happened to elephants in Kenya, which banned the hunting of all elephants and then saw a calamitous decline in numbers, as against Zimbabwe, which declared them to be the property of whoever’s land they were on and has seen an explosion in numbers because people were effectively encouraged to farm the elephants or to treat them as a valuable resource.
This is not really about CITES. All 28 Member States are individually signed up to that. This is about the European Union progressively taking on the attributes and trappings of statehood, including what it regards as the necessary right to speak on behalf of its Member States in international forums. Surely this is something that each of the member countries can decide for itself, through its own democratic mechanisms and procedures."@en1
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