Objections from the EMS Foundation | Annual Export Quotas For Elephant, Black Rhinos and Leopard Hunting Trophies, 2024/2025

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Excerpts from the EMS Foundation Submission delivered to the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment on Friday 13th December 2024:

“We hope that our comments will be constructively considered. 

We request that once the DFFE has reviewed all comments, that a comments and responses table be made publicly available, evidencing the manner in which all Stakeholders’ comments were evaluated and analysed by the DFFE. 

We have crossed the ecological ceiling where nature is declining. Biodiversity is being lost at an unprecedented rate and our extractive, wasteful, and polluting linear economy is increasingly recognised as one of the main underlying causes of this crisis. Today, more than 90% of biodiversity loss is due to the extraction and processing of so-called “natural resources”. 

The intersection of climate change and wildlife conservation is a crucial space where the most urgent global issues converge These interconnected challenges affecting water quality, soil erosion, and even the spread of diseases highlight the inextricable link between climate change, wildlife conservation, and the well-being of wild animal and human communities. These issues cannot be separated in the fight against the negative effects of climate change. 

In the context of the sixth extinction, policies that support the extraction of wildlife as a means of ‘conservation’ is a contradiction. As Professor Klaus Bosselmann, chair of the IUCN Ethics Specialist Group in a recent letter to the German government, noted, “Trophy hunting unnecessarily threatens the survival and genetic integrity of protected species in the midst of the current crisis of the sixth mass species extinction. It is overdue that Germany, as the largest importer of hunting trophies in the EU, takes action.” “

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