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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 ...
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 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 this week announced a permanent ban on wildlife trade and consumption that international conservationists greeted as a major step, but one with troublesome loopholes for trade in wild ...
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 ...
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 ...
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… ...
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 ...
An animal protection group active in fighting wildlife poaching for over a decade called the nationwide culling a “brutal farce,” on China’s X-like platform Weibo. Officials have defended ...
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.
Chinese lawmakers on Friday voted to adopt a revised Law on the Protection of Wildlife, which will take effect on May. 1, 2023. The revised law was passed at a session of the National People's ...
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 ...