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"Mr President, I remember reading a book to my daughter some years ago about elephants in Africa and remarking that, when I read that same book some 40 years before, the population was three or four times greater. Of course we know that elephants are dying in vast numbers, we know that international laws are needed to combat wildlife crime, but we also need to recognise where the demand is coming from. It is coming from China, almost exclusively, to a huge degree from growing wealth in China, people being able to afford ivory, and from a degree of ignorance.
I understand that a majority of Chinese people actually think that the tusks of elephants re-grow, like fingernails, so they don’t realise what destruction is taking place. My question, really, is to both the Commission and the President: what are we doing to link up with African nations, to talk to the Chinese about the need for action for information, to combat this crime at its very source? If we are not able to persuade the Chinese authorities to take action, then we are going to end up with more elephants in European zoos than out in the wild."@en1
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