The old man Ren set up a sticky net in the woodland to illegally catch birds, and as a result, he was found by the staff of the public welfare project "Let the Migratory Birds Fly" and caught squarely. The reporter learned today that the Xicheng court sentenced Ren to 8 months imprisonment and a fine of 1,000 yuan for the crime of illegally hunting rare and endangered wild animals.
The 65-year-old Ren family lives in Beijing's Shunyi District and often takes some "wild birds" to the market to sell. People who are familiar with him know that the "wild birds" sold by Ren cannot be bred at all, and they are all "sticky" in the wild. In October last year, Ren illegally hunted birds by erecting a sticky net in the western forest plot of Cangshang Village, Beiwu Town, Shunyi District, without the approval of the competent authorities.
Ren's ability to be arrested stemmed from the investigation of Mr. Gu, a staff member of the "Let Migratory Birds Fly" public welfare fund. Mr. Gu testified that he learned at the market in Shunyi that there was an old man in Cangshang Village who was catching birds and selling birds. Later, he found 2 erected sticky nets in the woods in the western woods of Kurakami Village. At 5:00 a.m. on October 17 last year, Mr. Gu and his friend came to the sticky net early and saw an owl glued to it, and the two hid nearby, waiting for the sticky bird to come. A few hours later, an old man in his 60s went straight to the sticky net to pick birds, while Mr. Gu secretly filmed a video to preserve evidence.
The old man was shocked when he found Mr. Gu, claiming that he had seen the sticky net and was ready to release the stuck bird. "Several people haven't seen a bird net in the past few hours, so why did you go straight to the bird net?" The old man was dumbfounded by Mr. Gu's question. Subsequently, Mr. Gu called the police. After the police arrived at the scene, the bird-catching nets that were 20 meters long and 3 meters high were dismantled, and the owl was handed over to the staff of the Wildlife Rescue Center to take away for rescue. On the same day, the police seized hunting tools such as bird nets and more than a dozen birds from Ren's home.
After identification, the owl that Ren illegally hunted was a red horned owl, a national second-level protected animal. The 12 yellow-browed willow warblers seized from their homes (7 live and 5 dead) and 3 yellow-browed buntings (all dead) belong to the list of terrestrial wild animals with important ecological, scientific and social value protected by the state.
The court held that the defendant's illegal hunting of rare and endangered wild animals under key national protection and the destruction of wildlife resources constituted the crime of illegal hunting of rare and endangered wild animals. In view of the fact that Ren voluntarily admitted guilt in court and truthfully confessed the facts of the crime, the court gave him a lenient punishment as appropriate, sentencing him to 8 months' imprisonment and a fine of 1,000 yuan.
Source Beijing Daily Client | Reporter Sun Ying
Editor: Li Tuo
Process Editor: Wang Mengying