It is illegal to eat frogs.

The frog, whose scientific name is tiger frog, is also called water chicken.

The tiger frog is unique to China and is one of the important economic frogs in our country. Because of its unique flavor, delicious taste and high nutritional value, it is deeply loved by consumers. However, due to habitat destruction and over-harvesting, the number of tiger frogs in nature has been decreasing day by day. In 1989, it was listed as a second-level protected animal by the country.

According to Article 45 of the Wildlife Protection Law:

Violation of Article 20, Article 21, and Paragraph 1 of Article 23 of this Law , Paragraph 1 of Article 24 stipulates that in relevant nature reserves, prohibited hunting (fishing) areas, and prohibited hunting (fishing) periods, hunting of national key protected wild animals does not obtain a special hunting license or does not hunt in accordance with the special regulations. Hunting or killing wild animals under special state protection as specified in the license, or using prohibited tools or methods to hunt wild animals under special state protection.

The wildlife protection departments, marine law enforcement departments or relevant protected area management agencies of the people's governments at or above the county level shall confiscate hunting objects, hunting tools and illegal gains in accordance with the division of responsibilities, revoke the special hunting license, and A fine of not less than two times but not more than ten times the value of the catch shall be imposed;

If there is no catch, a fine of not less than 10,000 yuan but not more than 50,000 yuan shall be imposed; if a crime is constituted, criminal liability shall be pursued in accordance with the law.

Extended information:

Case:

In June this year, the criminal suspect Lan Sheng, Wang Sheng, and Wu Sheng (the names of the persons involved in this article are all pseudonyms) During the construction of a canal for agricultural reform in a village in Taining County, people discovered that there were wild animals such as tiger frogs (commonly known as "frogs") in the canal. The three of them made an appointment to hunt these wild animals together.

During June, three people captured about 80 tiger frogs and other wild animals with their bare hands without any permission, knowing that wild animals could not be hunted at will. It was seized by the police on the way to be transported to my hometown in Jianning County for consumption.

After identification, 79 of the wild animals hunted by the three suspects were tiger frogs, a national second-level protected wild animal, and 7 spiny-breasted frogs, a national "three-have" protected wild animal. Only, 1 turtle.

In July this year, the Taining County Procuratorate approved the arrest of criminal suspect Lan Sheng on suspicion of illegal hunting of rare wild animals (the other two were handled separately).

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