Municipal Market Supervision Bureau and relevant departments carry out special enforcement actions
Strictly investigate illegal trade in wildlife
Xiamen DailyNews (Reporter Chen Ni, correspondent Lin Huibin and Zhang Jianqiang) In order to implement the “Xiamen City Advocating Civilized, Healthy and Green Lifestyle Activity Plan (2021-2022)”, we will eliminate illegal activities in capturing wild animals and advocate a civilized, healthy, and green life. In this way, the Municipal Market Supervision Bureau has recently launched special law enforcement actions in conjunction with relevant functional departments to severely crack down on illegal wildlife trade and strengthen the protection of national key wildlife.
According to reports, in conjunction with epidemic prevention and control and civilization creation, the market supervision department has recently conducted careful inspections of key places such as farmers’ markets, catering stores, and tourist craft shops; at the same time, it has strengthened the monitoring and supervision of online trading platforms and strictly investigated wildlife online transactions. Illegal behavior, by searching and monitoring wild animal keywords, urges online trading platform operators to conduct self-examination and self-correction, and remove relevant transaction information in a timely manner.
In Xiang’an District, the market supervision department conducts key inspections on whether there are purchases, storage, processing, and sales of wild animals in the catering units in the jurisdiction, especially for catering shops, farmhouses, and seafood restaurants that feature game operations. During an on-site inspection of a restaurant, law enforcement officers found 9 Chinese horseshoe crabs in the seafood pool of the restaurant, which were immediately detained and filed for investigation. After confirming that the 9 detained Chinese horseshoe crabs were able to move normally, the law enforcement officers released them to the sea in the waters of Liuwudian Wharf on the day of the operation. At present, the case has been transferred to the procuratorial organ, and the parties concerned will be investigated for criminal responsibility in accordance with the law. It is reported that since the beginning of this year, the Xiang’an District Market Supervision Bureau has filed investigations into 5 illegal purchases and sales of national key wildlife protected animals.
During the operation, the market supervision department has also strengthened inspection and guidance on the implementation of the prohibition on the sale of wild animals by market operators, and prohibits market operators from providing trading services for operators selling wild animals and their products; Product business units conduct publicity and education. While carefully checking the relevant product purchase ledger and inspection and quarantine certificate, they are required to prohibit the sale of wild animals, strengthen self-discipline and law-abiding operations, and guide the masses to establish a healthy diet and a civilized consumption concept, and fully understand The importance of protecting wild animals and the health risks of eating wild animals, consciously stay away from “game”.
It is reported that, in the next step, Xiamen will further increase law enforcement by multiple departments, strengthen the crackdown on illegal wildlife trade during the epidemic, and continue to maintain a high-pressure trend of cracking down on illegal wildlife trade. The market supervision department also reminds the public that once any illegal operation of wild animals and their products is discovered, please call 12315 to make a complaint in time.
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