[Commentary] The reporter learned from the Coastal Police Headquarters (Preparation Team) of the Hainan Provincial Public Security Department on October 12 that the Coastal Police Headquarters (Preparatory Team) of the Hainan Provincial Public Security Department and the Haikou City Public Security Bureau recently successfully uncovered an extremely large illegal purchase, transportation, and sale of precious treasures. , The case of endangered wild animals and their products.

　　[Explanation] According to reports, 15 criminal suspects were arrested in this case and 5 dens located in Qionghai, Wanning, Hainan and other places were destroyed.

Seized 5097 pieces of precious cultural relics from sea fishing during the Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing Dynasties; 981 national first-class protected animals and products such as live pythons, pangolin specimens, monitor lizard specimens, nautilus, and Crustacean crustaceans; national level two There are 210 live turtles and specimens of protected animals, more than 2,000 kilograms of national secondary protected animal products such as stony corals and blue corals; and 770 extinct animal products such as mammoth ivory and shark specimens.

　　[Concurrent] Hainan Provincial Public Security Bureau Coastal Police Corps (preparatory group), police officer Fu Youneng

　　A total of 15 criminal suspects have been arrested in the case, and a large number of items involved in the case, such as hawksbill products, hawksbill products, and live turtles, have been seized.

The value involved in the case (excluding submarine cultural relics) is about 33 million yuan.

　　[Explanation] According to statistics, this case is the largest illegal purchase, transportation and sale of rare and endangered wild animals and their products in Hainan Province in recent years.

On September 9, 2020, the main suspects in the case were all arrested.

　　[Explanation] According to the police of the task force, in investigating the case, they also rescued a batch of live turtles in time.

According to the needs of the case, the Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of Hainan Province sent a letter to the Hainan Institute of Tropical Oceanography as soon as possible, requesting that 43 live sea turtles detained be temporarily raised and treated to ensure that the detained live turtles are properly placed.

　　[Explanation] At the same time, the Hainan Coastal Police also appealed to the whole society: There will be no killing if there is no business. Protecting wild animals means protecting human beings. Man and nature are a community with a shared future.

Anyone who ignores the national law and tries the law by himself will be severely punished by the law.

　　Yin Haiming Lin Shijie reports on behalf of Long Chao and Chen Junyu Haikou

Editor in charge: [Liu Xian]