Fiscal bodies crack down on crimes of destruction of wildlife resources and prosecute more than 15,000 people in the first three quarters.

The reporter learned from the Supreme People’s Prosecutor’s Office: From January to September of this year, the organs of the prosecutor’s office throughout the country processed a total of 15,154 crimes of damage to wildlife resources, an increase of 66.2% year-on-year . Among them, 6,974 were crimes of illegal fishing of aquatic products, 3,769 were crimes of illegal hunting, 3,007 were crimes of illegal purchase, transport and sale of precious and endangered wild animals and their products, and 1,131 were crimes of hunting and Illegal killing of precious and endangered wild animals. People, 273 crimes of smuggling precious animals and precious animal products.

These criminal trading venues are reportedly currently being networked. With the rapid development of e-commerce, micro-trade platforms, and express logistics industries, online transactions have gradually become an important link in the industrial chain of clandestine wildlife trade, and some online stores carry legal layers . Privately sell prohibited wildlife products and animals, such as parrots and golden pythons, and companies post information about wildlife sales through WeChat Moments.

At the same time, his criminal mode is gradually industrializing. After hunting wild animals, criminals sell them at farmers markets and hunting restaurants. In some cases, trans-regional transactions have taken place, forming a fixed industrial chain of “hunting-sale-transport”. The individuals involved in the case include both smugglers, importers, source traders and distributors who market wild animals as their business, as well as brokers and agents who perform a number of commissions and fisheries, as well as pure lovers of “exotic pets”, forming a huge network of underground commerce.

The Supreme Prosecutor stated that if such crimes are punished strictly and promptly, which constitutes a crime and meet the conditions to approve the arrest and prosecution, the organs of the prosecution must arrest and prosecute without delay in accordance with the law and take strong action. In particular, severely punishing “origin” crimes such as illegal hunting, killing and selling precious and endangered wild animals, which is a powerful deterrent. Strengthen the repression of hunting, sale, purchase, transport and other links, and emphasize the investigation and control of logistics and transport, commercial spaces and “hunting pavilions”.