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Conservation campaigners have said China\u2019s ban of trade in wild animal meat cannot be effectively implemented as it still allows trade in wildlife products for use in Chinese medicines, clothing and ornaments.<\/p>\n

They have warned that these exemptions are loopholes that will pave way for the buying and selling wild animals\u2019 meat \u2013 just as it did in the past.<\/p>\n

The Standing Committee of the National People\u2019s Congress announced a ban<\/a> in the last week of February after suspicions that wildlife sold at a meat market in Wuhan was the source of the current Coronavirus outbreak.<\/p>\n

China\u2019s top legislature has also initiated a process to revise the country\u2019s Wildlife Protection Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cBear bile to treat Coronavirus patients\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Just last month an agency that investigates wildlife trade reported that<\/a> the Chinese government had said an injection that contains bear bile should be used to treat patients with serious cases of Covid-19 patients.<\/p>\n

Tan Re Qing injections are among the recommended treatments for \u2018severe\u2019 and \u2018critical\u2019 cases of coronavirus in the COVID-19 Diagnosis and Treatment Plan<\/a> of the National Health Commission [of China], published on 4 March, according to the London-based Environment Investigation Agency.<\/p>\n

The website of the Chinese health agency does show the name of the injection which has \u201cfel ursi\u201d, or bear bile, on the ingredients list.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAside from the irony of promoting a wildlife product for treatment of a disease which originated in wildlife, promotion of the use of threatened wildlife in medicine is hugely irresponsible in an era of unprecedented biodiversity loss,\u201d said Aron White a wildlife campaigner and China specialist at EIA.<\/p>\n

Bear bile farming<\/strong><\/p>\n

Conservationists say there are nearly 30,000 bears<\/a> in Chinese breeding farms.<\/p>\n

They are kept in small cages and their bile is extracted from their gallbladders using various techniques<\/a> which all cause severe pain and infection. Experts say in some cases a metal tube is forced through the same wound repeatedly during each bile-milking session.<\/p>\n

This results in many of the bears dying from infections or other complications, and those who survive live in agony.<\/p>\n

While bear farming for bile is allowed for use in traditional Chinese medicine under the ban, wildlife campaigners have reported that illegal traders also sell other body parts.<\/p>\n

Protected animals like pangolins and leopards are also allowed<\/a> to be traded under the ban, so their body parts can be used in traditional Chinese medicine.<\/p>\n

Belief in traditional medicine<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cAlthough the medicinal benefits of many wildlife products have not been proven scientifically, the belief in the system is strong,\u201d said Terry Townshend a China-based wildlife conservation consultant and founder of Birding Beijing.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor example, I know of a very well-educated family who have two children, one has had fertility issues and the other works in wildlife conservation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDespite being strongly aware of the lack of scientific evidence, the sibling with fertility issues has used pangolin scales \u2018as a last resort\u2019 as they had tried everything else.\u201d<\/p>\n

Because of the demand of traditional medicine across Asia, the pangolin is almost extinct in China<\/a> and is now the most trafficked animal in the world.<\/p>\n

Fur fever<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nearly 75% of the wildlife farming industry was for pelt production<\/a> from animals like mink, racoon dog and fox, according to research by the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2017.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn 2018, 50 million animals were bred and killed for their pelts in China,\u201d said Pei Su, CEO and co-founder of Act Asia<\/a>, an organisation that has been campaigning against fur and pelt industry from captive breeding of wildlife in China.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe same racoon dogs, minks and foxes that were bred in captivity for fur and pelt were then also sold for their meat.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chinese academics agree that there are such loopholes.<\/p>\n

\u201cSince fur production accounts for over three-quarters of wildlife trade, if the products are not fully prohibited in fur trade, then we have barely scratched the surface of commercial use of wildlife,\u201d said Jiang Jinsong, assistant professor at Tsinghua University in China.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd all our endeavours put into wildlife conservation will be in vain.\u201d<\/p>\n

An investigation by the EIA in 2012 found that traders who were legally breeding tigers for their skins were also illegally selling<\/a> their bones for medicines and wine.<\/p>\n

The new ban also includes exemptions for decorative purposes. It\u2019s now illegal to buy or sell Pangolin meat, but its nails are allowed to be traded for decorative purposes, and its scales can be used for medicines.<\/p>\n

As well as large-scale tiger, bear and python farming, China also breeds crocodiles, salamanders and other wild animals in their thousands.<\/p>\n

The wildlife farming industry is estimated to have created employment for more than 14 million people and is worth over GBP 56 billion (USD 70.66 billion), according to the research by the Chinese Academy of Engineering.<\/p>\n

Shift in attitudes<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Coronavirus pandemic appears to have changed Chinese love for exotic wildlife meat that established their country as the world\u2019s biggest market for wildlife trade, both legal and illegal.<\/p>\n

There is growing pressure within China<\/a> for fundamental reform of the country\u2019s policy on wildlife consumption.<\/p>\n

A recent survey<\/a> carried out by Chinese NGO Shan Shui Conservation Center suggests that majority of Chinese citizens may now be against the consumption of wildlife.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo to wildlife meat\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Of the more than 101,000 respondents, 97% said they opposed consuming wildlife products while a similar figure expressed support for the government\u2019s ban on the trade.<\/p>\n

The main reason given by the 3% who opposed the wildlife ban when answering the survey was because of impacts on wildlife farming.<\/p>\n

The survey<\/a>, carried out by Peking University and seven other organisations, may not be representative of the whole of China\u2019s population.<\/p>\n

It was conducted online and via social media so was answered by a high proportion of young people, with a third of respondents being aged between 19 and 30.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe respondents were weighted towards urban dwellers and also many were in environmental circles, so may have favoured a ban more than the general population,\u201d said Townshend.<\/p>\n

What do young people think?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Young Chinese people who spoke to the BBC supported the survey finding.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we definitely support getting rid of illegal wildlife products in the markets,\u201d said Ji (who asked us not to use her full name), a final year university student in Beijing.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe do not eat wildlife products in our daily meals,\u201d the 21-year-old added.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome of my friends in different regions around the country do get offered things like shark fin, snakes or soft-shell turtle by their families because they think they have certain nutrients which are very valuable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ji said she used to eat bullfrogs that were artificially bred when she was in secondary school. But she stopped eating them after she found there could be parasites in the frogs.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter this Coronavirus outbreak, more young people in China will leave behind this archaic practice of eating wildlife meat.\u201d<\/p>\n

Will the ban actually work?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Chinese government did ban wildlife trade in 2003 after the SARS outbreak in China, but relaxed it within few months.<\/p>\n

This time around, wildlife campaigners say, some moves have been promising.<\/p>\n

\u201cSince the rise of COVID-19, the Chinese government has investigated over 600 cases of wildlife crime, and hopefully, this greater focus on law enforcement will become the norm,\u201d said Yuhan Li, a wildlife researcher with Oxford University, who has studied the Chinese government\u2019s wildlife policy after the Coronavirus outbreak.<\/p>\n

But, conservation organisations say that traditional medicines made from exotic animals and allowing farming of these animals for fur and ornamental reasons will encourage illegal trade on wild animals\u2019 meat.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are the loopholes which still represent serious issues, we are looking into them now,\u201d said Zhou Jinfeng, secretary general of China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation<\/a>, a government-supported organisation.<\/p>\n

\u201cApart from the ban of wildlife eating, all other uses of wildlife should be stopped as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

All eyes are now on China\u2019s wildlife protection law that is supposed to be amended soon following the government-ban on wildlife meat trade<\/p>\n

\u201cIf that amendment does not address those loopholes, this will be a real missed opportunity,\u201d said White with the EIA.<\/p>\n

A leading international conservation group, The International Union for Conservation of Nature, agrees.<\/p>\n

\u201cChina must ensure that the revised law comes with strengthened enforcement strategies to prevent illegal wildlife trade from continuing underground,\u201d according to its regional director for Asia, Aban Marker Kabraji.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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You can follow her on Twitter at @beth_wa","url":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/author\/bethwalker\/","sameAs":["https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/author\/navin-singh-khadka\/"]}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20032965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20032965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20032965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20032972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20032965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20032965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20032965"},{"taxonomy":"hashtags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtags?post=20032965"},{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=20032965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}