A strict ban on the consumption and farming of wild animals is being rolled out across China in the wake of the deadly coronavirus epidemic, which is believed to have started at a wildlife market ...

China's multibillion-dollar wildlife industry is driven by corporate interests and traditional Chinese medicine companies whose animal-based remedies are prescribed as treatment for the coronavirus.

China banned wildlife trade nationwide starting Sunday due to the deadly coronavirus sweeping across the country, officials said. No wildlife can be transported or sold in any markets and online un… ...

Media coverage of China's wildlife markets sends the message that they’re hugely popular. In reality, many Chinese can’t relate. At a wildlife market in Shenzhen, vendors display live reptiles ...

China’s legislative committee has passed a comprehensive ban on not just trade but consumption of wildlife, in response to growing indications that the COVID-19 outbreak stemmed from a ...

The coronavirus epidemic prompted China to permanently ban trade of wild animals as food, but not for medicinal use. By James Gorman China this week announced a permanent ban on wildlife trade and ...

China is not participating in a United Nations project to survey Asian wet markets and other facilities at high risk of spreading infectious diseases from wild animals to humans, despite long ...

A study by Beijing Normal University and the China Wildlife Conservation Association in 2012, found that in China’s major cities, a third of people had used wild animals in their lifetime for ...

The Chinese government has published a draft list of animals that can be farmed — for meat and for fur — as economic activity in the country slowly resumes in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis ...

Beijing faces uncomfortable questions over its failure to clean up the wildlife trade in recent years and unusual public calls for a ... Virus Sparks Soul-Searching Over China’s Wild Animal Trade.

Traditional Chinese medicine risks extinction if there is a push by the government to completely replace the wild animal parts now used with substitutes, a senior Chinese lawmaker said on Saturday.

A strict ban on the consumption and farming of wild animals is being rolled out across China in the wake of the deadly coronavirus epidemic, which is believed to have started at a wildlife market ...