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    "id": 968393,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/968393/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mwangi",
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        "legal_name": "Ephraim Mwangi Maina",
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    "content": "to adopt its own domestic legislation to ensure that CITES is implemented at the national level. CITES membership currently starts at 183 parties. Kenya’s participation at CITES Cop 18 was coordinated by the Ministry of Tourism and Wildlife, State Department of Wild Life. The country’s delegation was led by the Chief Administrative Secretary, Hon. Joseph Boinet. He had prepared eight proposals which were agreed on for submission by 24th December, 2018 for the consideration of Cop 18. He had submitted proposals in favour of protection of various proposals such as the Holothurian spp in Appendix II. This is a joint submission with the European Union (EU). Madam Temporary Speaker, Kenya was successful in all the five proposals except the first one on re-establishing a complete ban on the international ivory trade by placing all African elephants on Appendix 1. That is to say the African elephant was upgraded from Appendix II to Appendix I which in my view was a success. However, Namibia and Zimbabwe who were seeking to remove elephants from Appendix I and allow international trade in ivory were also unsuccessful. The Committee observed that Kenya has a very good reputation internationally in terms of lobbying for the protection of wild species of animals and plants. However, these efforts were hampered by their domestic reputation especially the Ministry’s relationship with communities that are living next to or inside the wildlife parks and game reserves. This was essentially due to the human-wildlife conflict. The Committee recommends that the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources should intensify lobbying for more funds with the National Treasury and Planning, and the National Assembly Committee on Budget to allocate more funds for compensation to victims of human-wildlife conflict and also revive the compensation committees. The Committee further recommends that county governments, through their Committee Executive Members (CECs) in charge of Environment and Natural Resources should implement the 10 per cent forest cover policy and encourage the conservation of these endangered species of wild animals. Madam Temporary Speaker, we realise the forest cover in Kenya is very small. It is just 6 per cent. In other countries, you find forest cover going to 60 to 66 per cent. Madam Temporary Speaker, you will realize that as far as forest cover in Kenya is concerned, it is very small; we only have six per cent. You will find forest cover going to 60 or even 66 per cent in other countries, yet we are struggling to upgrade it to 10 per cent in Kenya. It is, therefore, necessary that we deal with this issue of forest cover, and ensure that we have even gone beyond the 10 per cent that we are anticipating to achieve."
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