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On the afternoon of March 9, the Regulations on the Protection and Management of Wild Animals in Guangdong Province (Draft Revision for Solicitation of Comments) were released on the official website of the Guangdong Provincial People's Congress for public comments. The regulations explicitly prohibit the consumption of wild animals under national key protection and other terrestrial wild animals, including artificially bred and artificially raised terrestrial wild animals, as well as other wild animals prohibited by relevant laws from being eaten, and greatly increase the punishment for illegal consumption, and the maximum fine for eating is proposed to be 10,000 yuan.
The Regulations of Guangdong Province on the Protection and Management of Wild Animals (Draft Revision for Solicitation of Comments) are open to the public for comments.
The scope of the fast specifies four types of wild animals
After the Standing Committee of the Guangdong Provincial People's Congress has previously issued a special emergency decision to explicitly prohibit the indiscriminate consumption of wild animals, how will the revised wildlife protection and management regulations be different? At the media briefing, the relevant person in charge of the special class for the revision of the regulations said that the regulations clearly prohibit the consumption of four types of wild animals:
First, wild animals under national key protection and other wild animals whose consumption is prohibited by relevant laws;
The second is the third protected wild animals (that is, terrestrial wild animals with important ecological, scientific and social values protected by the state) and other terrestrial wild animals;
The third is all artificially bred and artificially raised terrestrial wild animals;
Fourth, it is forbidden to produce or trade food made from the above-mentioned wild animals and their products, or to use food made from wild animals and their products that are hunted, artificially bred, or purchased for non-edible use purposes.
It is worth noting that the regulations of Guangdong Province are strictly defined in accordance with the scope of fasting determined by the "Decision" of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, and have not been expanded or reduced in any way.
The regulations clearly stipulate that the scope of the prohibition is limited to terrestrial wild animals, and for aquatic wild animals other than rare and endangered aquatic wild animals, the regulations propose to apply the Fisheries Law and other laws and regulations, and the animals included in the inventory of livestock and poultry genetic resources belong to livestock and poultry, and the provisions of the Animal Husbandry Law shall apply.
For illegal consumption, the regulations set up new penalties, including a fine of between 2,000 yuan and 10,000 yuan for eaters, and a fine of 10,000 to 50,000 yuan for organized eaters, which greatly increases the punishment compared with the current regulations.
Terrestrial wild animals are bred in part
Or can be used for medicinal research
The current regulations explicitly prohibit the consumption of artificially bred terrestrial wild animals, does this mean that all breeding and rearing terrestrial wild animals cannot be used?
In this regard, the draft solicitation of regulations has opened a "mouth", stipulating that non-national key protected wild animals with mature and stable artificial breeding technology shall be included in the list of artificially bred non-national key protected wild animals after being organized and evaluated by the provincial wildlife protection department and widely solicited opinions, and different management measures from wild populations shall be implemented.
For wildlife included in the list and their products, the regulations stipulate that special labels may be obtained on the basis of proof of legal origin, in accordance with the annual production quantity verified by the competent departments for wildlife protection at the county level, and sold and used with special labels to ensure traceability. This means that listed terrestrial wildlife can be used for medicinal and scientific purposes.
However, the directory will strictly manage "entry and exit", and the regulations require that the artificial breeding of wild animals not under national key protection shall be formulated and adjusted by the provincial wildlife protection department, reported to the provincial people's government for approval and publication, and special identification management shall be implemented.
It is understood that at present, the relevant ministries and commissions of the state are formulating and adjusting relevant directories and supporting regulations, and some artificially bred and artificially raised wild animals can be included in the management of livestock, poultry, and economic aquatic animals, and are not affected by the scope of fasting.
The current regulations are too narrow in scope
The parties hope that it will be considered and adopted as soon as possible
Why did Guangdong accelerate the revision of the Regulations on the Protection and Management of Wild Animals?
In this regard, the relevant person in charge explained that Guangdong is a large province of wild animal resources, trade, consumption and utilization, there are more than 900 kinds of terrestrial vertebrate wildlife, accounting for about 10% of the national species, and the import and export trade of wild animals and their products accounts for one-third of the country.
In addition, Guangdong folk have a tradition of loving "wild game", forming a large wildlife consumption market. According to statistics, as of March 8 this year, our province has investigated and dealt with 281 cases of wildlife violations and crimes, and confiscated 13,367 wild animals (only).
In view of the narrow scope of protection of the current Regulations, a large number of wild animals are not included in the scope of protection and management. The Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Congress assessed that it is necessary to revise the Regulations as soon as possible, adapt to the new requirements of wildlife protection and management in the new situation, improve the regulatory mechanism for wildlife trade and consumption, and make up for the shortcomings and deficiencies in the protection and management of wild animals in Guangdong Province.
According to the previous research feedback from relevant departments, all parties have unanimously agreed that the relevant system provisions of the revised draft conform to the new requirements of the state on wildlife protection and management under the new situation, reflect the latest legislative spirit of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, have Guangdong characteristics, and hope to be deliberated and approved as soon as possible.
Case link
In the face of the epidemic
Calls for a ban on eating wild animals are high
The Guangdong police struck hard
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Carry out unified clean-up and rectification actions
"Heavy Punch! Guangdong police clean up and rectify illegal places involving wild animals
But there are still some outlaws
Continue to do wildlife business
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At 18:00 on March 6, 2020, the Chengdong Police Station of the Haifeng County Public Security Bureau in Shanwei City received a 110 instruction saying that someone in a hair salon in Yunlu Village, Longshan Village, Chengdong Town, Haifeng County, was suspected of illegally purchasing wild animals. After investigation, the criminal suspect Liu Mou (male, 30 years old, from Lingshan County, Guangxi) raised four tortoises in his home in Hongwei Village, Chengdong Town, two of which were purchased by Liu from his WeChat friend "Mr. Wang" on February 28, 2020. According to the wildlife species identification personnel of Shanwei Forestry Bureau, it was initially identified as 1 leopard turtle, 1 red-legged tortoise, and 2 Central African tortoises, all of which belong to the terrestrial wild animals protected by Appendix II of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) (equivalent to national second-class). At present, criminal suspect Liu Mou is suspected of illegally purchasing endangered wild animals and has been criminally detained according to law.
The suspect identified the purchased wild animal.
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On February 29, 2020, the Forestry Branch of the Yunan County Public Security Bureau in Yunfu City received a report from the public that wild animals were hiding in the home of someone in ducheng Town. The sub-bureau immediately organized elite police forces to investigate, arrested the criminal suspect Zhu Mou on the spot, and seized 77 wild animals (strips) in his home.
After identification, among the wild animals in this batch, there are 61 national second-level protected animals, including 17 dead bodies of the genus Azariolus (commonly known as woolly chickens), 28 dead bodies of the Owl family (commonly known as owls), and 16 dead eagles; 16 "three haves" wild animals protected by the state, including 8 live doves, 2 live pheasants, 5 dead silver-ringed snakes, and 1 golden-ringed snake. At present, the public security organs have detained Zhu mou in accordance with the law.
Some wild animals seized by the police.
Which terrestrial wild animals cannot be eaten?
The draft of the draft regulations clearly prohibits the consumption of terrestrial wild animals, so which are the so-called "terrestrial wild animals" in the regulations, and the public should pay attention to avoid hunting and eating in daily life?
Survey based on resources
Guangdong has confirmed the distribution of more than 900 species of terrestrial vertebrate wildlife (including about 140 species of mammals, 590 species of birds, 150 species of reptiles, and 60 species of amphibians)
There are 114 species of wild animals under national key protection list (such as 19 species of national first-level protected wild animals such as South China tiger, crocodile lizard, yellow-bellied horned pheasant, forest musk, leopard, python and other national first-level protected wild animals, and 95 species of white ibis(provincial bird) black-faced spoonbills, pangolins, macaques and other national second-level protected wild animals
There are 76 species of terrestrial wild animals under provincial key protection
There are more than 620 species of terrestrial wild animals (three protected wild animals) with important ecological, scientific and social value
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Editor Zhang Ziling Trainee Editor Xu Zhe
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