The move is part of China's crackdown on the exotic meat trade after some experts linked a wet market in Wuhan, China, to potentially triggering the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

A new coronavirus spreading from the city of Wuhan has put a spotlight on China's poorly regulated wild animal trade - driven by relentless demand for exotic delicacies and ingredients for ...

The civet farm was a converted pigsty, Peter Li says, describing a pre-pandemic visit to one of China’s then numerous small businesses specializing in breeding wild animals for meat. About 10 ...

Chinese officials are trying to export snakes and other exotic animals overseas -- despite banning the consumption of them over fears it sparked the coronavirus pandemic.

China and its exotic-animal wet markets are incubators of human diseases like coronavirus Living closely with animals and eating strange animals creates unique conditions for human sickness.

The province has more than 2,300 licensed breeders of exotic animals, according to state-run paper Jiangxi Daily, generating about $225 million in sales in 2018.

China had already banned the sale of wild animals for food as the coronavirus spread around the world, citing the risk of diseases spreading to humans, but the trade remains legal for other ...

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 ...

Concerns about contracting SARS or bird flu are taking a bite out of Chinese diners’ normally huge appetite for wild animals. People’s taste for exotic wildlife like civets — the catlike ...

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 ...