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    "id": 413771,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Waiganjo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2644,
        "legal_name": "John Muriithi Waiganjo",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman these are clauses that are dealing with cropping and culling. “Cropping” means harvesting of animals or wildlife for their range of products while “culling” is a selective removal of wildlife based on ecological and scientific principles for management purposes. My beef with these clauses is on the management and regulation of cropping and culling. As Members know, at this particular point in time we have a problem with poachers and our wildlife are at their lowest ebb. Also, past experiences have shown that these practices of cropping and culling have led to abuse and, indeed, have been abused before. So, by legislating on these two clauses, we shall be opening our parks and national reserves to sport hunting and poachers. I do not think that at this point in time we have the capacity to manage and regulate cropping and culling. So, I would like to tell hon. Members that we can always bring a miscellaneous amendment in time when, at least, the numbers of our wildlife has increased. Let us not open it up for now; rather let us preserve and conserve our wildlife so that we get the right numbers. Legislating on it now when we already have a problem with numbers in our wildlife is also a problem. I ask hon. Members that we delete the two clauses."
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