Turkey's+Position+Paper+(1st+draft)

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Committee: International Labour Organitation Topic: Animal Trafficking Country: Turkey

The animal trafficking is extended in a lot of continents around the world such us Africa, Asia and south and central America, in wich a lot of endangered animals were sold and bought, like birds, mammals, fishes.. In turkey there are a lot of animals that are sold in markets the most abundant in ilegal markets are the birds like parrots, on the other hand the mammals like lions or tigers are not very seen in this markets.Some animals are killed to obtain the main parts of it like their fangs in elefants, or the skin in tigers and lions. Over 94 species are find here in the most famous ilegal market in Istambul, Turkey. The sentence for that can be or pay a good quantity of money, or go to prison. The people who do this normally are the hunters of animals or poor people that use animals to eat or to sell in markets to win some money and can live and eat.

This problem to the nature has to be stoped so Turkey and the countries in which traffick of species take part, have create some laws that doesn't allow hunters to kill or pick animals to get benefits.This laws are confirmed and are carry out by a lot of importance, this means, that if they plunder you commiting this crime you have to pay enough money, or go directly to jail. Europe and EEUU are the main buyers of birds and animals, being greatful of the benefits.

In Turkey, specially the parrots, a kind of bird, are totally prohibited to transport it because the species die a few time before being captured, if this happens during some years, it is not going to have birds in the country. So the Turkish goverment decide to incrust this law with the others to the people who hunt parrots.

The country doesn't want to be respresent as a dirty country full of illegal markets and undeclared earnings. So because of it they have imposed these laws. A very high percentage has interpreted this catastrophic actions of the hunters who obtain benefits across the animals.

The conclusion of all of that is that the world animals are going to be extingued because of these people that doesn't have feeling to the animals. Also that it isn't stop if people continue buying these animals in the markets because the people looking their earnings are going to continue destroying the fauna of the nature.

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