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’s new wildlife law doesn’t go far enough to stop another pandemic By Aron White. 4 min read Updated 10:06 PM EST, Tue November 17, 2020 Link Copied ...

China and its neighbours must not only crack down on wildlife trade but also shut legal loopholes that allow disease-prone species to be farmed, experts said after an investigation team concluded ...

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 ...

Criminal cases involving illegal hunting of wildlife and trade in wild animals have risen 11.5 percent so far this year to 10,818, the government said on Tuesday.

The 2020 ban aimed to close loopholes in existing legislation, such as China’s Wildlife Protection Law, which was last amended in 2016 and is being revised again now.

China’s new draft wildlife conservation law will continue to allow the extraction of bile from captive bears for traditional Chinese medicine and supplements. Photograph by STR/AFP/Getty Images.

China shut down those wildlife farms in February 2020, says Peter Daszak, a disease ecologist with EcoHealth Alliance and a member of the WHO delegation that traveled to China this year.

The paper, "Assessing the illegal hunting of native wildlife in China," appears in Nature. Its co-authors are Dan Liang, Xingli Giam, Sifan Hu, Liang Ma, and David S. Wilcove.