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    "id": 1480026,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1480026/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Aden Duale",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Climate Change and Forestry",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 15,
        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
        "slug": "aden-duale"
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Speaker, the Member for Nakuru County, my sister, seeks to know the initiatives that the Ministry has undertaken to preserve our heritage, wetlands and catchment areas. At the policy level, the ministry has put in place the National Wetland Conservation and Management Policy, 2009, which guides us on use of our wetlands, and sustainable management in the country. The policy also ensures sustainable ecological and socio-economic functioning of wetlands for the present and future generations. The ministry is now implementing that policy jointly with other stakeholders in order to protect and safeguard wetlands. Secondly, the ministry has developed and is enforcing the Wetlands Regulations, 2009, which were passed under the Environmental Management and Coordination Act, (Cap. 387) Laws of Kenya. The regulations provide a legal framework for ensuring that all wetland resources in our country are utilised in a very sustainable manner, compatible with the continued presence of wetlands and their ecological goods and services. The ministry has also designated six wetlands in the country as far as the Ramsar sites are concerned. Ramsar is an international convention that Kenya signed in 1992. The sites include Lake Nakuru in Nakuru County, Lake Elmentaita in Nakuru County, Lake Bogoria in Baringo 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."
}