For whatever reason, hunting and selling wild animals is a criminal offense. But there are still people who knowingly commit crimes for a small amount of profit. On November 18, the Dongfeng County People's Procuratorate held a public trial of the case of Hou Mou and four other people illegally hunting a criminal attached civil public interest lawsuit initiated by the Dongfeng County People's Court, and the verdict was pronounced in court. From the end of April to July 24 this year, defendant Hou X, together with Zhu X, Wang X, Lü X and others, used slingshots, compound bows, thermal imaging and other tools to illegally hunt wild animals such as mountain doves, pheasants, and wild rabbits on the mountains in Dongfeng County, and their behavior destroyed wildlife resources and the ecological environment, resulting in the destruction of the ecological balance and harming the national interests and the social public interest.
Reporter Ying Jie:
This matter also began at 23:00 on July 23 this year, when the police of the Sanhe Police Station of the Dongfeng County Public Security Bureau of Liaoyuan City went on a night patrol, when the night patrol police found two men holding bows and arrows and slingshots in the woods by the embankment of the reservoir, suspected of being engaged in illegal hunting.
Ning Lipeng, police officer of Sanhe Police Station of Dongfeng County Public Security Bureau of Liaoyuan City:
When he was seized, he found that he had a slingshot and a bow and arrow in his car, and at that time our police brought him back overnight, and after interrogation, it was found that not only two people, but also two people did not go that night, they were four people in total, namely Hou, Zhu, Lu and Wang.
The police found that among the four people, the oldest was 55 years old, and the youngest was only 28 years old. Usually they live in three different townships in Dongfeng County, and they get together, only a common hobby, these four people often play slingshot in the wild, they found that now the ecological environment is getting better and better, the rural mountain forest, the reservoir can always see pheasant, hare and other wild animals, so the four people moved a crooked thought: "Why not play hunting, both fresh and exciting, but also can taste wild food." ”
At the beginning, the four of them still had no experience, they could not fight live creatures, and in the later period, they had more experience, and the "equipment" was more and more complete, and there were compound crossbows and night vision goggles, respectively, and they hunted. They also knew more about each township, where there were wild animals, at that time they hunted illegally 17 times, captured about 40 pheasants, rabbits and wild pigeons, and later ate these animals.
When the police arrested the four people, they also found a wild animal shaped like a pigeon, which was later identified by the Jilin Senfa and The Identification Center of The Certificate, which is a mountain spotted dove, which is a key protected animal in Jilin Province.
At present, Hou has been sentenced to eight months of probation for one year, Lu and Zhu have been sentenced to six months of probation for six months, and Wang has been sentenced to two months of probation for two months.
Police Remind:
The pursuit of excitement must be disciplined and law-abiding, and the protection of wild animals is everyone's responsibility.