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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Seme, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) James Nyikal",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker for giving me an opportunity to contribute to this Motion. I rise to support the Report of this Committee. It is dealing with a very important component of our life as a nation, the economy in general and also linking it to tourism. Therefore, it is important for us to have this policy. It should be a living one so that, as the environment changes, it also changes to adopt the same. This particular document has been well done. It gives out a very clear rationale for its development, which recognises that there was a policy that was done in 1975 and was followed by the Wildlife Act in 1976. It recognises that changes have occurred in population growth, settlement and climate change that make the old policy extremely un-applicable in the current circumstances. It further goes on to look at the current challenges that need to be addressed. It comes out very clearly that land-use, destruction of the environment and wildlife habitat have become extremely important issues. Even where there is close contact with wildlife and human beings, the incentive of the population to see the value of wildlife living close to them is not there. Therefore, the issue of human-wildlife conflict is a big one. Apparently, it is also becoming clear that there is not much scientific information about the environment and people’s habitat. Even as we move wildlife, we know what happened when we were moving buffalos from one point to another and 11 of them died. So, we need that information. It also looks at the issue of bio-piracy while linking it together with tourism and other people. It is easy for the genetic material of our wildlife to be pirated. This can affect the wildlife and productivity. The climate change that is taking place is important and it affects the wildlife and utilisation of land and makes matters much worse. Further, as the various sectors of Government are being involved in development, it is important to coordinate them. For example, when you are doing a railway line - like what we are doing now which is passing across the wildlife habitat - how does that affect the wildlife? When we are getting into large-scale farming and expanding, how does that affect wildlife? When we are organising tourism, how does that affect wildlife? So, it is a well done document. They have The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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