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"Mr President, before introducing the amendment that I have tabled, I should like to state that my group supports the protection and conservation of the great apes, particularly in Africa. Although the great apes are already protected by the Washington Convention and cannot therefore be hunted, they should nonetheless be monitored more closely to prevent poaching, following the example of the ABAC programme (Alternatives to Poaching in Central Africa). But, as the rapporteur explains, hunting is not the only reason why these species are dying out, far from it. The massive, mechanised deforestation of equatorial Africa and the population explosion across the continent as a whole are key factors in the destruction of the Great Apes’ habitat, without forgetting the unprecedented devastation caused by the Ebola virus in recent years.
That is why I believe that we need to redefine the notion of the bushmeat crisis, so that it stands for more than just excessive removal of animals from the wild. There are many different underlying causes for the disappearance of these species.
The definition of wild meat is not acceptable either as it stands, in my opinion, because it introduces confusion as to the origin of game. I think that in a legislative text – to respond to Mr Ford – any clarification is always useful and I think that in all cases it is extremely important to define the scope very strictly.
In this report, which concerns tropical and equatorial areas, we should confine ourselves to the term ‘bushmeat’. The generic term ‘wild meat’ is much too vague. It also encompasses the species of game that are present in the Member States of the European Union."@en1
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