On February 1 this year, thrush was officially listed as a national second-level key protected wild animal, and the illegal acquisition and transportation of thrush has been suspected of crime. On March 16, a Red Star News reporter learned from the Chenghua District Bureau of the Chengdu Municipal Public Security Bureau that the bureau recently cracked a case of illegal acquisition and transportation of precious wild animals, and 24 suspects and thrushes of wild animals under national secondary key protection were blocked at the scene. It is reported that this is also the first case of illegal acquisition and transportation of thrushes cracked in Chengdu.
On March 16, Chengdu Municipal Public Security Bureau Chenghua District Bureau Patrol Police (Riot Prevention) Brigade Police Officer Wang Heng, the scene to introduce the situation of the seizure to reporters, February 13 at about 22:00, Chengdu City Public Security Bureau Chenghua District Bureau Patrol Police (Riot Prevention) Brigade police in the Chengnan Expressway 110 checkpoint on an SUV off-road vehicle routine inspection, found that the driver was nervous, speech is not clear, the police immediately conducted further inspection of the vehicle, and found a large number of bird cages in the trunk of the vehicle, there are 24 live birds in the cage, The driver, Qiu Moumou, claimed that the live bird in the car was a thrush. The police of the patrol brigade immediately reported the case to the command center of the sub-bureau and handed the case over to the sub-bureau's economic (environmental, food and drug and tourism) crime investigation brigade (hereinafter referred to as the economic investigation brigade) for handling.
The sub-bureau's investigation brigade immediately reported the case to the Forest Police Detachment of the Chengdu Municipal Public Security Bureau and carried out work under the guidance of the detachment. Chen Zhili, a police officer of the investigation brigade, told reporters, "After receiving the alarm from the patrol brigade, we immediately rushed to the scene, and under the coordination of the forest police detachment, we properly preserved the live birds and animals at the scene and controlled the relevant suspects on the spot." "Because the 24 live birds at the scene are suspected of being thrushes, a national second-level protected animal, the police of the investigation brigade immediately detained the birds and transferred them to the relevant forensic identification agencies for identification." After judicial identification, the 24 live birds seized at the scene were all thrushes of the ornithischia and noisy grebe families. According to the announcement (No. 3 [2021] no. 3) (List of Wild Animals under National Key Protection) issued by the State Forestry and Grassland Administration and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs on February 1, 2021, Thrush has been officially listed as a wild animal under national secondary key protection. Since February 1, 2021, the illegal acquisition and transportation of thrushes has been suspected of being a crime.
After investigation, the criminal suspect Qiu Moumou purchased 24 thrushes in other places on February 13, 2021 without going through the relevant legal procedures for the operation and utilization of wild animals, and drove them to a flower and bird market in Chengdu for sale. Police officer Chen Zhili told reporters that the suspect has long been engaged in illegal bird acquisition activities, and has repeatedly posted precious wild animals in his vibrato, public account or related circle of friends. "The thrush has been listed as a second-class protected animal by the state, and now the species of the thrush is already endangered, and there are only three species of this bird, so if it is 24 birds transported and acquired, it should be a particularly significant case." On February 14, 2021, criminal suspect Qiu Moumou was criminally detained by the Chenghua District Bureau of the Chengdu Municipal Public Security Bureau on suspicion of illegally purchasing and transporting precious wild animals, and the seized thrush has now been properly fostered under the guidance of relevant departments.
On February 1, 2021, the State Forestry and Grassland Administration and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs jointly released a new version of the Directory of Wild Animals under National Key Protection (hereinafter referred to as the "Directory"). On the basis of retaining all the species on the original list, 517 species (classes) of wild animals have been added to the list. Police officer Chen Zhili told reporters that through the understanding of the police in the Forestry Bureau, the breeding of thrushes is relatively special, and can only be bred under wild conditions at present, and family feeding cannot reproduce, "that is to say, after buying these birds, this generation cannot continue the next generation." ”
The public security organs remind the general public:
For acts of illegally hunting or killing rare or endangered wild animals under key national protection, or illegally acquiring, transporting, or selling rare or endangered wild animals under key national protection and their products," the public security organs will crack down on the crime of endangering rare and endangered wild animals in accordance with the provisions of article 341, paragraph 1 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate on the Implementation of the Crimes Determined in the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China (VII) promulgated and implemented on March 1, 2021, and will be cracked down on in accordance with the provisions of article 341, paragraph 1 of the Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate.
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Edited by Li Yue
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