Improve the tourist blacklist system and formulate special legislation for animal protection
Injury to animals in the scenic area must wear the legal "golden hoop"
□ Our reporter Zhao Chenxi
□ Hu Huixin, an intern of our newspaper
A peacock slowly passed by a pair of mother and daughter. Unexpectedly, an adult woman suddenly reached out and grabbed a feather of the peacock and pulled it off.... Recently, this video was shot in the scenic spot of Yansai Lake, Qinhuangdao, Hebei. Once exposed, it was verbally criticized by netizens.
In fact, incidents like this have happened frequently before.
In 2017, Beijing Badaling Wildlife Park was exposed to tourists plucking peacock feathers; in 2018, four male peacocks were plucked out by tourists at Zhuyuwan Zoo in Yangzhou, Jiangsu, causing damage to the capillaries of the peacocks. In 2020, a woman chased peacocks in Yunnan Wildlife Park. , The man walking with her quickly stepped forward to pull off the peacock feathers...
In the eyes of some netizens, the biggest reason why some people dare to harm the animals in the scenic spot so unscrupulously is that this kind of behavior is difficult to be punished. Just like this incident, the woman was not punished in the end.
"This kind of behavior really cannot rely solely on appeals and self-moral restraint, but must wear the "golden hoop" of the law." Zhu Wei, deputy director of the Communication Law Research Center of China University of Political Science and Law, pointed out in an interview with a reporter from the "Rules of Law Daily" that the scenic spots hurt Animal incidents occur frequently. In order to protect animal safety and reduce uncivilized behaviors in scenic spots, legislation should be considered to regulate such behaviors.
Repeatedly banned feeding
Every time I see news about harming animals in the scenic area, Chen Jing’s heart can’t be calm for a long time. As a worker at the Beijing Zoo, she spends most of the day with the animals. These animals are showing them to every visitor. She was so beautiful, she couldn't figure out why someone would hurt animals in such a grand manner.
During her work, Chen Jing discovered that the feeding of tourists has become a major factor affecting animal health.
"Animal feed has strict standards. It is distributed according to the different physiques and needs of each animal. The daily diet must be rationed. The indiscriminate feeding of tourists will disrupt scientific meal preparation, cause animal indigestion, and even cause death." Beijing Zoo keeper Wang Chong According to the introduction, in order to meet the needs of some tourists to get close to the animals, there will be a "feeding experience area" in the children’s zoo, where the breeder will provide special feeding for tourists on a regular basis, but many tourists still like to feed themselves. Some food Even with packaging bags.
Nowadays, the popular areas such as Bear Mountain and Monkey Mountain in the zoo are covered by tall glass, and the ventilation area is also designed with mesh. Chen Jing said that this transformation is to ensure the safety of tourists on the one hand, and to prevent tourists from investing in it on the other hand. Hey.
Nevertheless, in venues such as antelopes and zebras that are not enclosed by glass, the feeding phenomenon is still serious.
The reminder "For the health of animals, please do not feed" and volunteers' dissuasion still cannot stop some tourists from experiencing the "fun" of feeding animals.
Improve the blacklist system
With the approach of summer vacation, many parents will take their children to the zoo. The increase in passenger traffic has also led to an increasing number of uncivilized behaviors. In just one weekend, Chen Jing discouraged nearly 10 animal feeding behaviors. She still remembers one who threw ham sausage into animals. In the face of persuasion, the tourists in the cage replied disapprovingly: "Or you punish me."
How to punish this kind of behavior has always been the "pain" of scenic spots.
In the case of the woman dragging the peacock feathers, the response from the scenic area involved "if it is found on the spot, it can only be stopped and cannot be punished" seemed rather helpless.
Wang Tianxing, deputy director of the Cultural Tourism Policy and Regulation Center of Beijing International Studies University, said that according to current regulations, scenic spots do not have the right to penalize. Once problems are discovered, staff should stop them in time and report to the police to solve them. For example, there is a police station in the Beijing Zoo. It is convenient to deal with disputes in time.
In fact, in the park regulations currently promulgated in some places, regulations have been made against tourists injuring and feeding animals in scenic spots.
For example, the "Beijing Park Regulations" stipulates that tourists visiting parks are prohibited from intimidating, throwing, hurting animals or feeding animals in non-feeding areas. For violations of the regulations, corrections are ordered and a fine of 50 yuan up to 100 yuan can be imposed.
"Such punishments are administrative punishments and are assigned to the Urban Management Bureau. Scenic spots have no right of punishment." However, Wang Tianxing pointed out that this does not mean that scenic spots can turn a blind eye to such behavior. When problems are discovered, they should be stopped in time. Immediately call the police, and at the same time strengthen joint inspections with law enforcement agencies.
It is understood that Beijing Zoo was commissioned by the Beijing Municipal Landscaping Law Enforcement Department in 2014. During the 2016 National Day holiday, the Beijing Zoo’s law enforcement team issued 4 tickets for illegal feeding of tourists.
However, Wang Tianxing pointed out that such entrusted law enforcement has not yet formed a normalized mechanism, and the frequency of joint inspection and law enforcement by scenic area management teams and urban management law enforcement teams should be increased.
In addition, in the future, it is possible to consider passing legislation to appropriately grant certain administrative law enforcement powers and administrative punishment powers to the front-line law enforcement teams of scenic spots, but this must be done under the supervision and guidance of relevant law enforcement agencies.
In Zhu Wei's view, making good use of the tourist blacklist system is also the key to punishing such behaviors that harm animals.
The “Interim Measures for the Management of Records of Uncivilized Tourist Behaviors” implemented in 2015 stipulate that the national and provincial tourism administrative departments can set up “Records of Uncivilized Traveling Behaviors” within their administrative areas to link uncivilized behaviors with citizens’ personal credit or integrity , Create a dishonest file.
This system is also known as the tourist blacklist system.
But judging from the actual implementation, at least in terms of behaviors aimed at harming animals, the effect of the tourist blacklist system is very limited.
Zhu Wei pointed out that, on the one hand, the several items listed in the Measures should be included in the “records of uncivilized behaviors of tourists”. Most of them are damage to public facilities and cultural relics, excluding behaviors such as harming or feeding animals; on the other hand, , There is no clear stipulation in the method as to the impact of being included in the "Record of Uncivilized Traveling Behaviors" on tourists.
In this regard, Zhu Wei suggested to further improve the tourist blacklist system, increase regulations on behaviors such as unreasonable feeding, malicious harm to animals, etc., especially to formulate severe punishment measures to strengthen the binding force.
Missing a special law
"For malicious acts of harming animals, it is useless to rely solely on moral restraint and must be severely punished by the law." Some netizens attribute the unscrupulous behavior of some tourists to the lack of my country's animal protection laws.
Although my country has a wildlife protection law, it is mainly aimed at wild animals. It is difficult to protect animals raised in scenic spots, domestic pets, etc., and there is no comprehensive animal protection legislation.
In 2011, in response to the controversial Guizhentang living bear taking bile incident, ten jurists Jiang Ping, tenured professor of China University of Political Science and Law, collectively called on my country to formulate laws on animal protection as soon as possible to respect animal life and protect the basic interests of animals. The main theme is to prohibit all improper harm and cruel behavior to animals.
At the National People's Congress in recent years, many NPC deputies put forward suggestions on animal protection legislation.
At the 2020 National People's Congress meeting, Zhao Wanping, deputy dean of the National People's Congress and the vice president of the Anhui Academy of Agricultural Sciences, jointly submitted 30 representatives to formulate an animal protection law.
Zhao Wanping pointed out that my country, as the world’s second largest economy that raises the most various types of animals, does not have a comprehensive animal protection law so far, which is not conducive to guiding the people to be good. It is urgent to formulate a law that can effectively protect and prevent animals. Comprehensive law of harm.
Zhu Lieyu, a representative of the National People's Congress and director of Guangdong Guoding Law Firm, has submitted proposals for formulating anti-animal cruelty laws for many years.
Zhu Lieyu said that animal cruelty not only endangers the lives and health of animals, but may also evolve into vicious public security incidents that endanger social order. Legislation to regulate animal cruelty can fill the current legal vacuum and punish such acts from a legal perspective.
Zhao Wanping and Zhu Lieyu both suggested that before the law is enacted, consideration may be given to adding animal cruelty penalties to the Law on Public Security Management Punishments, including animal cruelty and malicious harm to animals into the scope of public security management penalties to increase the cost of violations.