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    "content": "about animals as well as people. We need strong representation when we come to the meetings of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES). We hear that the people we send there are not a strong delegation and very adverse decisions are made despite the Government taking a different position. As past contributors have indicated, we need to involve communities that live with those animals. If you read through the newspapers, the communities that are neighboring parks are the ones who live with animals. They keep complaining because their crops are destroyed. They suffer from the “big cats” that eat their animals. I think the approach that KWS and the Government have taken on those issues is not very good. We need to become friendly; we need to engage those communities so that they can become part and parcel of the people who are protecting our animals, instead of seeing the wildlife as their enemy. We need to make sure that they are the ones who are reporting cases involving human/wildlife conflict. It is like an extension of the community policing concept that we have. That is what we need to have with our people. On the issue of compensation of the damage caused by wildlife on people, crops and domestic animals, KWS pays peanuts to the losers. It is high time that Parliament takes up that issue and finds out how much is set aside in the Budget to take care of that. Hon. Deputy Speaker, we also need to tighten the inspection in our exit points; the airports. That is because those bulky packages are used to transport ivory. As I wind up, if you look at the Constitution, the protection of wildlife is a dual role between the national Government and counties. So, we need to come up with a well defined structure to deal with that. We need to know what the national Government is supposed to do and what the county government is supposed to do. The final issue is: Can we also pursue bilateral agreements with consumer countries like China and other South East Asian countries so that they can help us curb the import of illegally acquired trophies? With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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