Recently, the Forest Police Brigade of Changling County, Jilin Province received clues and quickly uncovered an online wildlife trafficking case.
During an inspection, the Internet Supervision and Inspection Detachment of the Jilin Provincial Forest Public Security Bureau discovered that a man from Changling posted short videos of catching and selling birds on the Huoshan Video App.
On the same day, Jilin Provincial Forest Public Security Bureau, Changling County Forest Public Security Brigade, together with the Jilin Provincial Police Station and the Forever Town Forestry Station, went to Gepingfang Village, Forever Town, and successfully arrested the criminal suspect Li Mousong and seized it from his home. The "three animals" included 12 live birds, 159 frozen dead birds, 3 birdcages, and 2 bird-catching nets, which identified the criminal facts.
Yu Jingxuan, director of the Dongling Forestry Police Station of Changling County Forest Police in Jilin Province: During the epidemic prevention and control period, the forest police in our province have always adopted a high-pressure posture against illegal crimes related to wildlife resources. We hereby appeal to the general public not to hunt or trade wild animals. .
Online Court Remote Hearing It only took 23 hours from case filing to sentencing
htmlOn February 21, the Changling County People’s Court used remote video to hear the case of illegal hunting of wild animals during the epidemic.Although no parties were present, the trial was conducted through a remote video connection. High-definition audio and video images of the parties, the judge and the jurors appeared on the screen on time, and the remote trial began. Although the defendant and the judge were not in the same place, they still successfully completed court investigation, evidence display, court questioning, and in-court sentencing. The entire process was complete and smooth, the sound and picture were clear, and the trial was orderly, fast and efficient.
The court sentenced the defendant Li Mousong to eight months in prison for illegal hunting.
Man was sentenced to eight months in prison for illegally hunting endangered wild animals
This Jilin case only took 23 hours from filing to sentencing. In order to increase the intensity of crackdowns on crimes such as poaching of wild animals, some courts are imposing stricter and faster trials.
In an illegal hunting case that was recently heard by the Jiujiang Court in Jiangxi Province, a man hunted seven snakes in the wild, and what awaits him is an eight-month sentence. Because we are currently in a critical period of the fight against the new coronavirus epidemic, the case will be conducted via remote video hearing.
In May 2019, the defendant Fang Moumou used snake nets to trap two king snakes and three black snakes in Luoping Town, Wuning County, Jiangxi Province. It was identified that the five snakes are all important protected animals in Jiangxi Province, and the other two snakes are Zhoushan cobra . This species is included in Appendix II of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora.
The public prosecution agency believes that the defendant has violated paragraph 2 of Article 341 of the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China and should be held criminally responsible for the crime of illegal hunting and illegal hunting of endangered wild animals. In the first instance, the court sentenced the defendant Fang Moumou to eight months' imprisonment and a fine of RMB 5,000.
The defendant was dissatisfied with the first instance judgment and appealed to Jiujiang Intermediate Court. On February 25, the court held the second instance, and the verdict was as follows: The appellant Fang Moumou, the defendant in the original instance, was sentenced to 8 months in prison and fined RMB 5,000 for the crime of illegal hunting of endangered wild animals.
The case originated from an investigation in a restaurant. The police found clues on the dining table and followed the clues to catch the snake catcher and snake trafficker. The snake dealer and the restaurant owner will also face trial.
Appellant (original defendant in the first instance) Fang Moumou: I first regret my criminal behavior of illegal hunting and illegal killing of endangered wild animals. Just because I have a weak legal awareness and a weak concept of the rule of law, I violated the laws of the country in a single thought. Therefore, I was sanctioned by the law and paid a huge price. Protecting wild animals, protecting ecology, and protecting nature starts from me and starts now.
National Forestry and Grassland Administration: Implementing the strictest wildlife control measures
In the past many years, China's illegal wildlife trade has mostly been conducted in an "underground" form. Some restaurants sell wild game, such as snakes, forest frogs, civet cats, pangolins, sika deer, monkeys, etc., and even highlight the word "wild" in order to attract customers. We must speak out against these bad habits of eating wild animals. No. Today, our country is taking the most stringent approach to ban illegal wildlife trade.
On February 24, the 16th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress voted and adopted the "Decision of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on Comprehensively Prohibiting Illegal Wildlife Trading, Eradicating the Bad Habit of Indiscriminate Eating of Wild Animals, and Effectively Protecting the People's Lives, Health and Safety" , it is completely prohibited to eat "terrestrial wild animals with important ecological, scientific and social value" protected by the state and other terrestrial wild animals, including artificially bred and artificially raised terrestrial wild animals.
html On the 27th, the State Forestry and Grassland Administration held a meeting and issued a notice calling for a complete ban on the market and trading of edible wild animals. Anyone engaged in artificial breeding of wild animals for food purposes will have their licenses revoked. The Supreme People's Procuratorate released the "Typical Cases of Procuratorate Wildlife Protection Public Interest Litigation" on the 28th, in order to completely eliminate the profit chain of illegal wildlife production. Since the outbreak, the State Forestry and Grassland Administration has implemented the most stringent series of wildlife control measures. As of February 26, 690 wildlife violation cases had been handled, 2,919 illegal tools and more than 39,000 wild animals had been confiscated.Expert Initiative: Pay attention to the harmonious coexistence with wild animals
Professor Huang Song, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Anhui Normal University: We must protect wild animals and not infringe on them. This is very important. Once this balance is broken, viruses and bacteria that are not harmful to wild animals may be transmitted to humans.
Experts pointed out that there is a symbiotic and interdependent relationship between humans and wild animals. Once the ecological balance is destroyed, it will endanger the entire biosphere and human safety.
Vice Chairman of the Zoological Society of China, Professor at Beijing Normal University Zhang Zhengwang: The ecosystem has a complete food chain, and wild animals are an important link in it. Protecting wild animals will make the ecosystem more complete and healthier. Protecting wild animals is conducive to the continuation of the evolutionary process of various organisms. The place where we live must not only have high-rise buildings, but also have the singing of birds and the fragrance of flowers.
Getting rid of the bad social habit of eating "wild game" requires not only the power of the rule of law, but also a complete change in people's concepts. We must realize that protecting wild animals means protecting ourselves; treating wild animals well is also treating human beings well. Only by respecting nature and respecting life from the bottom of our hearts can we achieve harmonious coexistence between man and nature, and tragedies will not happen again. (CCTV Finance Reporters: Tong Ying, Zhang Zhigang, Li Lin, Wu Lifeng, Yuan Yi, Zhang Hongbin, Wang Jiankun)
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