How dare you shut up? The revision of the Wildlife Protection Law has started, so don't eat everything!

COVID-19 was found to be the intermediate host of pangolin, and game has once again become a hot topic of discussion. Recently, the revision of the Wildlife Protection Law has also attracted a lot of praise. For those who love to eat "game", they just want to say: don't eat everything!

First, the revision of the Wildlife Protection Law has been started!

1. Situation

Wang Ruihe, director of the Economic Law Office of the legal work Commission, said that the legal work Committee of the standing Committee of the National people's Congress has deployed to start the revision of the Wildlife Protection Law, and plans to include the amendment of the Wildlife Protection Law in the standing Committee's legislative work plan this year, and speed up the process of amending the Animal epidemic Prevention Law and other laws.

two。 Measures

We will further improve the legal system for wildlife, strengthen supervision over law enforcement, severely crack down on illegal trade in wildlife, resolutely eliminate the bad habit of overeating wild animals, and strengthen source control of major public health and safety risks.

Second, what are the problems with the current Wild Protection Law?

Wang Ruihe, director of the Economic Law Office of the legal work Commission, said: first, the relevant supporting regulations have not been issued and improved in time, and the specific measures, catalogues, standards, and technical regulations for wildlife protection have not been issued and improved in a timely manner.

Second, supervision, inspection and law enforcement are not strong enough, some illegal wildlife trading markets have not been resolutely banned or closed, and even in many places, the game market is rampant, and the scale of related industries is very large, which constitutes a major hidden danger to public health safety.

Third, the legislative purpose of the Wildlife Protection Law is mainly to protect precious and endangered wild animals, and to adopt the internationally accepted list protection method.

What is the penalty for illegal hunting of wild animals?

1. Whoever hunts and catches wild animals not under special state protection by using prohibited tools or methods during the no-hunting area or during the no-hunting period and imposes a fine in accordance with the provisions of Article 32 of the Wildlife Protection Law shall be imposed in accordance with the following provisions:

If ① has any prey, it shall be fined not more than 8 times the value of the prey.

If ② has no prey, it shall be fined not more than 2000 yuan.

two。 Whoever fails to obtain a hunting license or fails to hunt wild animals that are not under special state protection in accordance with the provisions of the hunting license and impose a fine in accordance with the provisions of Article 33 of the Wildlife Protection Law shall be imposed in accordance with the following provisions:

If ① has any prey, it shall be fined not more than 5 times the price of the prey.

If ② has no prey, it shall be fined not more than 1000 yuan.

3. Whoever destroys the main living and breeding places of wildlife under special state or local protection in a nature reserve or no hunting area shall be fined in accordance with the provisions of Article 34 of the Wildlife Protection Law, it shall be carried out in accordance with the standard equivalent to less than 3 times the cost of restitution.

It is illegal to kill or eat wild animals, so be sure to remember!