Xiangyang has closed more than 100 wild animal breeding farms, and Huangshi has revoked a number of breeding licenses
Surging journalist Zhong Yuhao
According to Hubei's "Xiangyang Daily" on March 9th, Xiangyang New Crown Pneumonia Epidemic Prevention and Control Headquarters Office responded to netizens' concerns about "comprehensive prohibition of eating wild animals".
After the "Notice on Implementing the Decision of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress to Eliminate Wildlife", can turtles, bullfrogs, etc. still eat? Xiangyang New Crown Pneumonia Epidemic Prevention and Control Headquarters Office introduced this. Recently, the Standing Committee of the National People ’s Congress and the Standing Committee of the Hubei Provincial People ’s Congress have successively issued a comprehensive ban on the consumption of wild animals, which stipulates: First, all terrestrial wild animals are prohibited from eating, including artificial breeding Terrestrial wild animals that are raised; second, precious and endangered aquatic wild animals that are specifically protected under laws and regulations are forbidden to eat; third, other wild animals that are prohibited by law and regulations.
Animals included in the catalog of livestock and poultry genetic resources belong to domestic animals and poultry, and their breeding, quarantine, and food consumption shall be implemented in accordance with relevant laws and regulations. Turtles and bullfrogs have been included in the new aquatic species list announced by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and are edible.
Regarding how wild animals stored in artificial breeding sites are handled and compensation for farmers, according to relevant decisions, the people's governments at or above the county level shall take necessary measures to support, guide, and help affected farmers and operators to adjust and change their business activities. The actual situation will be compensated according to law. After the specific policies formulated by the relevant higher-level departments are promulgated, the Municipal Natural Resources and Planning Bureau will work with the relevant departments to implement them.
Xiangyang City New Crown Pneumonia Epidemic Prevention and Control Headquarters Office said that since the outbreak, Xiangyang Natural Resources and Planning Bureau has mainly adopted the "six one" control measures, that is, all administrative licenses for wild animals are closed; All wild animals in captivity at wildlife breeding places are closed; all zoos and animal exhibition venues are closed and business is prohibited; the market supervision department shall stop all wild animals from selling on the market; all illegal acts involving wild animals shall be investigated and punished; wild animal epidemics Source epidemic disease monitoring will implement a daily report and zero report system.
As of March 7, Xiangyang City has dispatched 7,301 forest police and natural resource administrative law enforcement officers, set up 221 checkpoints, inspected 3,159 wild animal places, and inspected 2,388 farmer markets, catering places, supermarkets, and frozen storages. ), 4 cases were investigated and punished, 2 persons were detained, 276 wild animals and 500 products were confiscated, and 129 places for artificial breeding of wild animals were stored in the city, and frogs, snakes, beasts, birds and other wild animals were sealed 6099 Ten thousand (head, strip).
In addition, according to the "Hubei Daily" March 9 news, the head of the Provincial People's Congress Standing Committee Regulations Studio introduced that the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress decided to clarify the overall scope of fasting wildlife. According to the decision of the Standing Committee of the National People ’s Congress, the “Decision” of our province further clarified the scope of fasting wild animals and their products: first, all terrestrial wild animals, including terrestrial wild animals that are artificially bred and raised; second, laws and regulations The precious and endangered aquatic wildlife under special protection is linked with the relevant laws and regulations such as the current Wildlife Protection Law; the third is other wildlife prohibited by law. The "Decision" also clearly states that the prescribed wildlife and its products refer to the whole (including eggs and eggs), parts and derivatives of wild animals.
The surging news noted that as early as March 4, Huangshi City's Natural Resources and Planning Bureau (Forestry Bureau) issued an announcement through the official website: the withdrawal of wild animal artificial breeding, wild animal and product management and utilization permits (the first batch).
The above notice pointed out that in order to implement the National People's Congress Standing Committee's "Decision on Comprehensive Banning of Illegal Wildlife Trade, Elimination of Wild Habits of Overeating Wild Animals, and Effective Protection of People's Livelihood, Health and Safety", the State Forestry and Grassland Bureau on Implementing the "National People's Representative Notice of the Standing Committee of the General Assembly on the Decision on the Comprehensive Banning of Illegal Wildlife Trade, the Elimination of the Bad Habits of Wild Animals, and the Effective Protection of the People's Livelihood, Health, and Safety Notice of Inspection "Notice on Strengthening Wildlife Protection in Accordance with the Law and Preventing the Risk of Epidemic and Epidemic Diseases from the Source to Actually Protect the People's Livelihood and Health and Safety" (Elinhu [2020] No. 21), the spirit of the document, combined with the forestry administration The competent authority has investigated the reported administrative examination and approval of wild animals. After research, our bureau has decided to withdraw the issued licenses for the artificial breeding of wild animals and the operation and utilization of wild animals and their products (the first batch) (attached table). The matters are announced as follows:
Withdrawal of all wild animal artificial breeding, wild animal and product management and utilization permits (the first batch) withdrawn, the certificates will be invalid from the date of the announcement. All the owners of the artificial breeding and management of wild animals withdrawn from the announcement shall, within one month after issuing this announcement, take the initiative to submit the original and duplicate of the "Hubei Artificial Animal Breeding Permit" and "Hubei Wild Animals and Their Products Operation and Utilization Permit" Back to the local forestry administrative department. If it is not returned within the time limit, its wild animal breeding license, and the wild animal and its product operation and utilization license shall be invalidated by itself.
According to official website data, the domestic breeds involved in the Hubei Province ’s artificial breeding license (20 copies) withdrawn by Huangshi include yellow-margined closed-shell turtles, pheasants, blue peacocks, black spotted frogs, snakes, black guinea pigs, Hongyan, porcupine , Civet, etc.