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HSI/Europe delivers 48,226 signatures calling on the EU to act against imports of hunting trophies
BRUSSELS and MADRID, Dec. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Yesterday, Humane Society International/Europe handed over to the European Parliament’s Petitions Committee a petition, signed by nearly 50,000 citizens, urging the EU to take action against trade hunting trophies. The petition contains concrete and temporary policy recommendations to strengthen the current regulation of hunting trophies, in the absence of an import and export ban.
Iconic species are killed and shipped to and from the EU, making it the second largest importer of animal trophies in the world. The European Parliament can address the repeated failure of the EU to implement the existing protection measures.
Dr Joanna Swabe, Senior Director of Public Affairs at HSI/Europe, says: “We are grateful to be able to use our intervention in the Petitions Committee (10:28:50) to rebut the controversial and hackneyed claims by the European Commission that the “Well-regulated” trophy hunting benefits wildlife conservation and local community development The adoption of fallacies created by trophy hunting apologists is regrettable, without evaluating the mounting evidence that the killing of endangered species for sport it is detrimental to their conservation and can contribute to economic inequality Disappointed that the recent revision of the EU Action Plan against wildlife trafficking includes “well-managed trophy hunting” as a sustainable income stream We totally reject this characterization” .
While critical of the approach, HSI/Europe welcomes the Action Plan’s commitment to greater scrutiny of trophy imports and transparency in decision-making regarding country-species combinations. The Plan also states that the Commission will study extending the EU’s legal requirement for import permits.
The HSI/Europe petition to Parliament – as well as recent opinion polls and allegations of Commission consultations with stakeholders – show both the urgent need in terms of welfare, conservation and biology for additional trade protections, and the desire to public opinion, which demands immediate measures to prohibit the importation of trophies, according to the precautionary principle for the protection of species.
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