FWD: Seek balance in wildlife law, says top official

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Tuesday, July 29, 2003

Seek balance in wildlife law, says top official

 

 

THE protection of wild animals and the health of human beings should be given

equal priority in the revised version of the Wildlife Conservation Law being

drafted, said a legislative official.

 

It should prohibit the eating of wild animals, said Sun Youhai, an official

with the Environmental and Resources Protection Committee of the National

People’s Congress.

 

This year’s legislative agenda of the Congress Standing Committee includes the

revision of the 1988 Wildlife Conservation Law.

 

“The protection of both wild animals and people’s health accord with current

thinking about wildlife protection in society,” said Sun.

 

Public concern over the relationship between human beings and wild animals has

grown since the outbreak of SARS.

 

Reports by some scientists in the national media suggested that the potentially

fatal virus was initially transmitted to humans after people ate animals such as

the masked palm civet, although this has not been proved categorically.

 

“The bad habit of eating wild animals not only harms the health of human beings

but jeopardises efforts to better protect wild animals,” said Sun.

 

Xu Ping, dean of the Law Department of Beijing Forestry University, said a ban

on the eating of wild animals would be a great help in stemming the market and

eventually stopping the poaching of wild animals.

 

She said legislators should carefully seek a balance so that human beings could

live in harmony with the environment. – People's Daily.

 

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