China News Network Qingyuan, Guangdong, February 28 (Reporter Xu Qingqing) A reporter from the Procuratorate of Qingyuan City, Guangdong Province, reported on the 28th that a local citizen had been prosecuted on the 26th for the monkeys who had been brought home for feeding.

According to reports, on January 27, the defendant Ou Mouhui captured a monkey home for feeding at the foot of Luokun Mountain in Qingxin District of Qingyuan City. At 18:00 that day, he was seized by the public security organs due to a police report.

It was identified that the monkeys hunted by the defendant Ou Mouhui were macaques, which belonged to the national second-level key protected wild animals. Qingyuan City Public Security Bureau Qingxin Branch filed a case investigation on January 28. On February 25, Qingyuan City Public Security Bureau Qingxin Branch transferred Ouxinhui for suspected illegal hunting of precious and endangered wildlife to the Qinghai District Procuratorate for review and prosecution.

In addition, the local prosecutor's office has recently prosecuted several other crimes that damage wildlife resources.

Among them, the defendant Li Moujiang used snake pliers and other hunting tools on the hill of a village committee in Yingde City from July 2018 to October 23, 2019 to capture snakes, ocelots and other wild animals. . A number of wild animals involved in the investigation were ocelot bones, 7 were Zhoushan cobras, 2 silver ring snakes, 1 Sansuo Jin snake, 3 Zhoushan cobra snake heads, and 4 leopard cat larvae. "(Beneficial and important economic and scientific research terrestrial wildlife) Conservation List.

Defendant Chen Moujian used to hunt birds and animals illegally in a weed wasteland in a village committee in Wangbu Town from July 2019 to January 2020. . The three wild animals submitted for inspection are brown-winged crows (big-hair chickens), which belong to the national second-level protected wild animals.

Procuratorial organs remind that illegal hunting, killing of precious and endangered wild animals, and illegal acquisition, transportation, and sale of precious and endangered wild animals and their products are criminal acts and constitute a major hidden danger to public health and safety. Procuratorial organs will severely punish wild animals for destruction Resource crimes effectively protect the lives and health of the people. (Finish)