Holding a legal certificate and doing illegal things—
Such wildlife farms must be cool
Recently, the State Forestry and Grass Bureau issued a document requesting a comprehensive rectification of wild animal artificial breeding, management and utilization agencies. As early as a few years ago, the output value of China's wildlife breeding industry has reached more than 500 billion yuan each year. Now the scale may be even larger, but the fish and dragon are mixed and urgently need to be regulated.
China's wildlife breeding industry is huge
"More than 10 years ago, China's forestry department promulgated 'wild animal species that can be legally raised and entered the market', including sika deer, red deer, red-bellied golden pheasant, wild boar, nutria, mink, fox, mule, tiger frog and other domestic Varieties include ostriches, large eastern tortoises, Nile crocodile, crocodile, siamese crocodile and other species imported from abroad. "Zhang Li, a professor of ecology at Beijing Normal University, told the Science and Technology Daily reporter," According to statistics, in China There are hundreds of species of artificially bred wild animals for food, fur, medicinal raw materials, scientific experimental materials, etc., and the wildlife breeding industry is huge. "
As mentioned in the "Research Report on the Sustainable Development Strategy of China's Wild Animal Breeding Industry" published in 2017 by the Chinese Academy of Engineering Consulting Research Project, in 2016, there were more than 14.09 million full-time and part-time practitioners in the national wild animal breeding industry, creating an output value of 5206. More than 100 million yuan.
Some farms "hang dog heads to sell dog meat"
In addition to the "Wildlife Protection Law of the People's Republic of China", the "Regulations on the Implementation of Terrestrial Wildlife Protection of the People's Republic of China", "Administrative Measures for the National Key Protection of Wild Animal Domestication and Breeding Licenses" and the implementation methods of the Wildlife Protection Laws of each province, It involves domestication and reproduction of wild animals, and the approval of wild animal business licenses is also very strict.
However, in recent years, some licensed wild animal farms have "hanging sheep's heads to sell dog meat", which has caused a large number of illegally hunted wild animals to enter the market as imitation of special breeding animals. According to media reports, in some breeding farms, wild ducks, black-water chickens, bone-headed chickens, bar-headed geese and so on. However, these animals did not come from breeding. It is likely that the wild poached animals purchased were transferred to the breeding farm, and then sent to other regions using legal procedures. In this way, domestication and breeding licenses, and business utilization licenses have become "whitewashing tools" for certain illegal wildlife trades.
"The previously implemented wild animal domestication and breeding permission system has not been properly supervised, which is one of the crux of the illegal trade in wild animals. The National Forestry and Grass Bureau is the department in charge of wildlife. But lacks law enforcement powers; the business administration department is responsible for market supervision, but lacks professional strength, it is difficult to verify and sort out wild animals entering the market, and it is even more difficult to distinguish illegal and legitimate sources of wild animals; public security departments have law enforcement powers, but The crackdown on wildlife crime is not enough, "Zhang Li said.
Further strengthen supervision of the wildlife breeding industry
During the outbreak of new crown pneumonia, the country successively introduced a policy banning wildlife trade. The National Forestry and Grass Bureau has implemented the most stringent wildlife control measures. In order to do a good job of preventing and controlling the epidemic, it is necessary to urgently formulate measures to strengthen the control of wildlife breeding. However, after the epidemic has passed, will the wild animal breeding industry be cancelled across the board? From February 24, the 16th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress voted to pass the "Decision on Comprehensively Banning the Trade in Illegal Wildlife, Eliminating the Bad Habits of Wild Animals, and Effectively Protecting the Life and Health of the People" (below) (Referred to as the "decision").
Yang Heqing, deputy director of the Economic and Law Office of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, said that the "Decision" not only implements the spirit of comprehensive and strictly prohibiting wildlife eating, but also based on the actual situation. Great influence.
However, for non-edible use of wild animals, the "Decision" also requires the State Council and its relevant competent authorities to formulate and improve relevant approval and quarantine inspection regulations in a timely manner, and strengthen the approval and quarantine inspection management.
"The National Forestry and Grass Bureau has deployed a series of measures to comprehensively rectify the institutions for the artificial breeding and utilization of wildlife, and to clear up permits and documents in accordance with the law. All applications for hunting and management of wildlife for food purposes will be discontinued. Regulate the approval of non-edible wildlife activities. At the same time, deploy and strengthen the construction of supporting laws and regulations, advance the adjustment progress of the National Catalog of Key Wild Animals, and revise the 'three-you' animals (with important ecological, scientific, and social value) List of terrestrial wild animals) to improve supporting management methods and technical standards for artificial breeding of wild animals, management and utilization, and labeling management, "said Wang Weisheng, deputy director of the Animal and Plant Department of the State Forestry and Grass Bureau.
Our reporter Ma Aiping