BUSHMEAT PETITION
October 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALLA KEY European Parliament (EP) committee has called for a significant boost in European Investment Fund spending on actions that suppress the growing illegal trade in bushmeat, which is threatening wild species in Africa, Asia and Latin America. A report adopted by the EP's petitions committee also called on the European Union to develop a "strategic action plan" strengthening wildlife and nature conservation bodies and promoting restrictions on the high-powered rifles and their ammunition that kill bushmeat animals. It also called for legal ...
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