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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Halake",
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        "legal_name": "Abshiro Soka Halake",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I rise to support this statement simply because there is a difference between conservation and blanket moratorium on forests which is not the way to improve our forest cover. I know one or two things about forest conservation in this country. I have been in the conservation sector. I know for a fact that it is not because there are youths getting a livelihood from the forest that we have ended up with a forest cover of two per cent. It is because of the fact that even people who are mandated to look after the forest are selling those trees and not looking after the forests. Therefore, if we decide to cure something with a solution that is not appropriate for it, we will be in the same or worse situation. Conservation is not about not benefitting from the forest covers. If communities cannot benefit, what is the point of the forest cover? Forest cover is not going to provide a benefit, but communities must see a benefit to it economically and otherwise. I do not think that putting a moratorium that is endless which disadvantages the communities that are conserving is going to give us what we want. What we want as other sustainable solutions to our forest cover, is the Cabinet Secretary in his capacity and mandate to make sure that we get the forest cover. Madam Temporary Speaker, in the last year alone, about 50 forests were gazetted. The Government has the capacity to gazette and do everything in its power to meet the forest cover without putting the moratorium because it is a very lazy way of saying that The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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