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"Mr President, I am a little surprised that we are to debate lion hunting in this Parliament. That is not something I ever thought would happen to me in an assembly with which I would otherwise have thought I was more or less in agreement. Lion hunting was, in fact, what was wanted, as a split vote was requested, and we are in actual fact still short of an explanation from the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats as to its wishes in connection with a species 90% of which has disappeared over the last decade.
A second, and probably just as important, question is one to the Commission as to why it has gone easy on the demand for the protection of freshwater turtles. The IUCN regards them as threatened, but millions of them are killed each year. They are used for food and for natural medicine, and this, of course, quite obviously threatens these species’ long-term prospects for survival. If I have been informed correctly, there is nonetheless a proposal by the Commission that nothing special should be done to have them protected, and that is a matter in connection with which we should basically very much like an answer."@en1
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