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"en.20141215.15.1-068-000"2
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"Madam President, I wholeheartedly welcome the prospect of EU accession to CITES, which has been overdue for decades. CITES clearly constitutes an area in which the EU has the potential to produce results which far outweigh the sum of actions taken by individual Member States. Issues relating to CITES have a crucial impact on EU policy in a great number of areas. Wildlife trafficking, for example, is not only unethical because of the harm it causes to animals, but is also depriving local communities of sustainable development opportunities, robbing countries of potential tax revenues, deterring investment, providing financing to terrorist groups and enabling the spread of diseases like Ebola.
So I strongly believe that the EU should take a leadership role in CITES in putting a stop to the trafficking of tigers and all other endangered species; and I recall in the last Parliament, when I was here, the impact of the save-the-tiger conference and exhibitions which I held here. But I have to say I am somewhat disappointed that the UK has the questionable honour of harbouring the fourth-highest number of online adverts for the illegal sale of protected wildlife. The onus is now on the UK and all other EU governments to secure the budgets needed for appointing wildlife cybercrime officers to national crime units."@en1
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