§ Mrs. Anne CampbellTo ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what assessment the Government makes of the environmental impact of trophy hunting of endangered animals around the world; what steps the Government is taking to encourage the control of hunting of endangered species; and if she will make a statement. [137548]
§ Mr. MorleyThe United Kingdom is a Party to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), which regulates the trade in endangered species including those threatened by trophy hunting.
The Convention is implemented within the EU by means of Council Regulation (EC) No 338/97. The European Commission closely monitors the trade in CITES species and where scientific advisers judge that trade would be detrimental to the survival of a particular species in the wild, measures may be taken to suspend such trade.
415WA good example of this was provided earlier in the year when, on the basis of advice provided by the Scientific Review Group on Trade in Wild Fauna and Flora, the EU suspended trade in brown bear hunting trophies from Slovenia on the grounds that this trade was unsustainable.