China is one of the countries with the richest biodiversity in the world. However, due to human's indiscriminate catching, killing and eating, the wildlife resources in China have been seriously damaged. Many wild animals are endangered.
In order to obtain meat, almost all wild animals in China are threatened by human addiction: some restaurants in Shenzhen once listed the names of precious animals such as tigers, bears and owls. Some non-governmental environmental groups in Beijing investigated some markets in the city at the beginning of this year and found that dozens of large shopping malls are selling wild animal meat, including the national second-class protected animal antelope and the protected animal wild boar in Beijing. Pheasants, snakes, civets, owls, rabbits, wild turtles and even pangolins have all entered many restaurants. On the menus of some hotels, restaurants and entertainment places in Maoming City, Guangdong Province, dishes of flying tigers, tiger pigeons, turtledoves, snakes, pangolins, golden monkeys, red-crowned cranes, bears (palms) and other animals have appeared, many of which are national first-and second-class key protected animals. Of the more than 500 restaurants in Nanning, Guangxi, nearly 200 are engaged in wildlife. Wildlife experts estimate that Guangxi only eats several tons of pangolins every year, and the number is more than 1 10,000. Every year, the Forestry Department of Harbin Forestry Bureau seizes dozens of tons of wild animal products from wholesale markets, including the meat of animals such as flying dragons, deer, iron finches, roe deer legs, ostriches, crocodiles, kangaroos, bear paws, snakes and pangolins, while flying dragons and bear paws in the north also go south to markets and restaurants in the south. In addition, sturgeon, bighead carp, wild forest frog, giant salamander and other national rare protected animals have also been secretly sent to the table. According to statistics, China eats more than 6,000 tons of snakes every year.
The popularity of eating wild animals is an important reason why criminals hunt and sell wild animals. Driven by economic interests, they ignored the legal constraints, and the species and quantity of wild animals in China dropped sharply.
China's wildlife protection law has been promulgated for more than ten years, and more than 30 supporting laws, administrative regulations, notices, circulars and 100 local regulations have been formulated and promulgated successively. These laws and administrative regulations provide an important legal basis for wildlife protection and management and cracking down on illegal and criminal activities throughout the country. However, at present, the national laws and regulations on wildlife protection are not perfect enough, and the sentencing standards for punishing the destruction of wildlife resources are not strict enough, so it is difficult to accurately grasp the operation. Therefore, it is suggested that the highest judicial organ should make a clear judicial interpretation of the general provisions without specific standards as soon as possible; Whoever hunts, buys or sells wild animals and their products shall be given a heavier punishment; Individuals or units that eat wild animals should also be punished accordingly.
To this end, I strongly appeal to the general public not to buy, sell or eat wild animals at any time, especially those protected by law, and to maintain this civilized fashion for a long time. At the same time, it is also hoped that the relevant government departments will introduce laws or measures to ban wild animals as soon as possible to curb the spread of the phenomenon of binge eating wild animals.
Facing human friends, lovely wild animals, hunters, butchers and eaters, your conscience is safe. Why should you bear it? Wild animals are an important part of the earth's ecosystem. Protecting wildlife resources means protecting human beings themselves. So, let's join hands and voluntarily join in the protection of wild animals, leaving this precious wealth for us and our descendants!