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On 8 January, the United States Secretary of the Interior wrote to the Secretary of State on behalf of the big game hunting industry, asking her to ensure that the Government would abandon their commitment to the ban on importing hunting trophies. In her reply, will she give a robust indication that this Government are committed to that ban?
On 8 January, the United States Secretary of the Interior wrote to the Secretary of State on behalf of the big game hunting industry, asking her to ensure that the Government would abandon their commitment to the ban on importing hunting trophies. In her reply, will she give a robust indication that this Government are committed to that ban?
I thank the right hon. Member for that question. We are committed to banning trophy hunting. It is a manifesto commitment, and we will take it forward.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many permits his Department has issued for the import of hunting trophies from Russia in each of the last three years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many permits his Department has issued for the import of hunting trophies from Russia in each of the last three years.
The UK recorded 2 imports of brown bear hunting trophies from Russia under CITES in 2020, 12 in 2019 and 0 in 2018. 2020 is the latest full year for which data is available. Data for 2021 is currently being finalised and will be made available through the CITES trade database at https://trade.cites.org/.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking to prevent the illegal netting of wild birds within the sovereign base areas of Cyprus; and what steps are being taken to apprehend and prosecute those responsible for such acts.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps his Department is taking to prevent the illegal netting of wild birds within the sovereign base areas of Cyprus; and what steps are being taken to apprehend and prosecute those responsible for such acts.
We remain committed to tackling illegal trapping and poaching of birds in the Sovereign Base Areas (SBA).
Over the last twelve months we have arrested 55 poachers and conducted 39 police-led operations, seizing 3,031 items of netting equipment. Since November 2014, we have removed 61 acres of acacia at a cost of over €400,000.
The Sovereign Base Areas Administration will continue to work with the RSPB, BirdLife Cyprus and other Non-Government Organisations to do all they can to further reduce bird trapping within the SBA.
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, if his Department's nature conservation advisers observe a closed season of seven months on the issuing of licences to disturb or exclude badgers from their setts. - Inc ref to Protection of Badgers Act 1992.
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, if his Department's nature conservation advisers observe a closed season of seven months on the issuing of licences to disturb or exclude badgers from their setts. - Inc ref to Protection of Badgers Act 1992.
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what estimate he has made of the proportion of cubs born which would be saved as the result of the imposition of a six-month closed season for the culling of badgers; what estimate he has made of the proportion of cubs...
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, what estimate he has made of the proportion of cubs born which would be saved as the result of the imposition of a six-month closed season for the culling of badgers; what estimate he has made of the proportion of cubs...