BUSINESS BULLETIN 149 / 2000

Tuesday 3 October 2000

Section F - Motions and Amendments

The full text of all outstanding motions and amendments will appear in the Business Bulletin every Monday.

Items marked with an asterisk (*) are new or have been altered. Asterisks in the text show the extent of alterations made.

Motions which members wish to be considered for debate as members' business in the Parliament are marked with a hash symbol (#)

*S1M-1231 Mr Kenneth Gibson: The Possible Extinction of the Great Apes-That the Parliament notes with alarm the continued destruction of humankind's closest relatives, the four species of great apes, the bonobo, chimpanzee, gorilla and orang-utan; notes that bonobo numbers alone have halved to 10,000 in only two years, bonobo sharing 98.4% of its DNA with Homo sapiens sapiens; notes that while chimpanzee numbers have plummeted from over two million to less than 180,000 in four decades, three of the five sub-species of gorilla, the Cross River, Bwindi and mountain, number only an estimated 150, 290 and 320 respectively and the two orang-utan sub-species 15,000 in total; is concerned that continued habitat destruction through deforestation, hunting for bushmeat and the pet trade, catching human diseases and fragmentation of habitat into small unsustainable areas could lead to extinction of all twelve sub-species of great ape within a generation; supports the 34 organisations of the Ape Alliance in their attempts to save the great apes, and seeks support from the Scottish Executive in calls upon Her Majesty's Government to increase conservation funding to poor countries, to assess aid projects to ensure they do not harm wildlife and to phase out the import of tropical timber not harvested in an environmentally friendly manner.

Supported by: Fergus Ewing*

S1M-1230 Voluntary Organisations for Disabled People (lodged on 29 September 2000) Dorothy-Grace Elder*

S1M-1229# Nuclear Testing Related Illnesses (lodged on 29 September 2000) Dorothy-Grace Elder*

S1M-1227 Health Visitors and Community Nurses (lodged on 28 September 2000) Dorothy-Grace Elder*

S1M-1226# 50th Anniversary of the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees (lodged on 28 September 2000) Malcolm Chisholm*

S1M-1224# Holyrood Project Ethical Employment Audit (lodged on 27 September 2000) Dorothy-Grace Elder*, Mr Lloyd Quinan*

S1M-1223 Closing the Millennium Dome (lodged on 27 September 2000) Dorothy-Grace Elder*

S1M-1218# Tinnitus (lodged on 26 September 2000) Dorothy-Grace Elder*, Malcolm Chisholm*, Mr Lloyd Quinan*

S1M-1214 Deportees and Application of License Conditions (lodged on 26 September 2000) Dorothy-Grace Elder*

S1M-1210# Misuse of Alcohol (lodged on 22 September 2000) Mr Lloyd Quinan*

S1M-1208# Recognition of Pigeon Racing (lodged on 22 September 2000) Karen Whitefield*, Mr Lloyd Quinan*

S1M-1206# Abercorn Primary School West Lothian (lodged on 22 September 2000) Bill Aitken*

S1M-1203# National Eye Week (lodged on 20 September 2000) Mr Lloyd Quinan*

S1M-1202 Council Tax Collection (lodged on 20 September 2000) Mr Lloyd Quinan*

S1M-1199# Breast Cancer Awareness (lodged on 20 September 2000) Malcolm Chisholm*, Mr Lloyd Quinan*

S1M-1194.1 Summary Warrants (lodged on 20 September 2000) Dorothy-Grace Elder*, Mr Lloyd Quinan*

S1M-1162 Exam Crisis (lodged on 11 September 2000) Dorothy-Grace Elder*

S1M-1154 Third World Debt (lodged on 7 September 2000) Lewis Macdonald*

S1M-1150# 0345 Phone Number for the Parliament (lodged on 7 September 2000) Ben Wallace*

S1M-1133# Maternity Unit in Montrose (lodged on 29 August 2000) Ben Wallace*

S1M-1131 Lewis Offshore (lodged on 28 August 2000) Dorothy-Grace Elder*

S1M-1129# Threat to World's Forests (lodged on 25 August 2000) Dorothy-Grace Elder*

S1M-1119 Aberdeen Angus Cattle (lodged on 14 August 2000) Ben Wallace*

S1M-1108 Upgrading of A1 (lodged on 21 July 2000) Ben Wallace*

S1M-1023# Failure to Reinstate Arbroath to Assisted Area Status (lodged on 19 June 2000) Ben Wallace*

S1M-1010 Royal Ordnance Factory, Bishopton (lodged on 14 June 2000) Ben Wallace*

S1M-979# Holocaust Remembrance (lodged on 7 June 2000) Ben Wallace*

S1M-949 Greenock Morton Football Club (lodged on 2 June 2000) Ben Wallace*

S1M-948 Hosting the European Football Championship in Scotland (lodged on 2 June 2000) Ben Wallace*

S1M-944 Retaining Rail Stations in Fife (lodged on 2 June 2000) Ben Wallace*

S1M-943 Webcasts of Parliament (lodged on 2 June 2000) Ben Wallace*

S1M-919# Scottish Raptor Working Group (lodged on 30 May 2000) Ben Wallace*