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Lord Hanson of Flint
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(8 years, 4 months ago)
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Rory Stewart
I agree absolutely. All hon. Members would agree strongly that, if a species is critically endangered, it is not suitable to be hunted, let alone put on a wall as a trophy. We will look closely at scientific evidence across the range of endangered species. It will be extremely relevant to focus on that, with September and October being the time for the CITES conference in Johannesburg.
Mr David Hanson (Delyn) (Lab)
Australia and France have both banned the use and import of lion products. What do they know that the Minister refuses to act upon?
Rory Stewart
We are looking closely at what Australia and France are doing. We have been working on a common EU-US position in order to change practices in Africa. It makes a huge difference that we do this together as 700 million people in the EU and the US rather than trying to do it individually.