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"Mr President, the idea of banning trade in products from endangered species is one of those things that sounds terribly nice until you look at the consequences of it. Where people have been prevented from trading, in other words prevented from treating local wildlife as a renewable resource, they have very naturally hunted that wildlife to extinction. Whereas, in the small number of territories where wildlife is treated as the property of the person on whose territory it finds itself, people have been given an incentive to renew and care for its numbers. You see this in the relative boom of elephant numbers in South Africa, as against the total extirpation of the species in Kenya, because the one recognised property rights and the other simply banned it. This is a very good example of where we are passing legislation to make ourselves feel better rather than to effect a practical outcome on the ground."@en1
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