{"id":28059,"date":"2009-06-04T08:28:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-04T08:28:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-11-11T10:37:16","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T10:37:16","slug":"3059-taking-wildlife-off-the-menu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/nature\/3059-taking-wildlife-off-the-menu\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking wildlife off the menu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stewed turtle cures cancer, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flmnh.ufl.edu\/cnhc\/csp_asin.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">crocodile<\/a> meat relieves asthma, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pangolin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pangolin<\/a> scales regulate menstruation and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scorpion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">scorpion<\/a> venom helps stroke victims.<\/p>\n<p>Such is the traditional wisdom in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Guangdong\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Guangdong<\/a> province, where animal markets teem with snakes, scorpions, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Salamander\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">salamander<\/a> and dozens of different species of birds and turtles, some of which are endangered and all of which are fated to end their lives in restaurants, pharmacies or pet cages.<\/p>\n<p>Eating rare wildlife is normal in southern China, but a growing group of student activists is\u00a0trying to do something considered far stranger: they are trying\u00a0to save them.<\/p>\n<p>The nascent NGO conservation movement is stepping in where the authorities have had limited success by monitoring markets and restaurants, reporting sales of endangered species and trying to change the consumer culture. Among the youngest of several small groups is the Asian Turtle Rehabilitation Project, established earlier this year to save the reptiles from the soup pot.<\/p>\n<p>The founding members say they\u00a0are trying to cross the divide between the culture in which they were raised and the global conservation concerns they have been exposed to via the internet and schooling.<\/p>\n<p>They are surrounded by people who think it\u2019s a wasted effort. \u201cThey disapprove of this activity. They think turtles are small animals only good for eating &#8212; so why bother saving them?\u201d says\u00a0Luo Xinmei, a local student. \u201cAlmost no one in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Guangzhou\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Guangzhou<\/a> realises this is a centre of the illegal wildlife trade.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They are up against tradition and economic growth. Guangdong is the richest and most powerful province in southern China, where the appetite for exotic animals and plants is seen as extreme even in most other regions of China.<\/p>\n<p>The main reason is Chinese <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinadialogue.net\/article\/show\/single\/en\/916-Buyer-beware\">traditional medicine<\/a>, which lists <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinadialogue.net\/article\/show\/single\/en\/470-Ensuring-a-healthy-future-for-Chinese-medicine\">curative qualities<\/a> in many exotic animals. It is believed that the wilder the animal or plant, the better the effects. A popular saying has it that people here will eat anything with four legs except a chair, anything that flies except a plane and anything in the water except a boat.<\/p>\n<p>Demand dropped briefly after 2003, when the severe acute respiratory syndrome (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/csr\/sars\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SARS<\/a>) crisis was blamed on pathogens <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinadaily.com.cn\/china\/2006-11\/23\/content_740511.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">spread by civet cats<\/a> and other wild animals. But it has surged back since as rising incomes allow more consumers to indulge in foods that were once considered delicacies for the very rich. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ens-newswire.com\/ens\/nov2008\/2008-11-13-01.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">survey<\/a> by the conservation group <a href=\"https:\/\/www.traffic.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Traffic<\/a> last year found that almost half of city dwellers had eaten wild animals in the previous 12 months.<\/p>\n<p>The impact has been devastating. While international attention tends to focus on big mammals such as the Sumatran tiger and the giant panda, many reptiles have quietly been pushed to the brink of extinction, including the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arkive.org\/chinese-three-striped-box-turtle\/cuora-trifasciata\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">three-stripe box turtle<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arkive.org\/roti-island-snake-necked-turtle\/chelodina-mccordi\/info.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Roti Island snake-neck turtle<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/nlbif.eti.uva.nl\/bis\/turtles.php?menuentry=soorten&amp;id=267\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Malaysian giant turtle<\/a>. Turtles are among the most threatened because they breed slowly and their meat is considered good for longevity.<\/p>\n<p>Raising awareness takes a number of forms. The group has secretly taken images of a turtle being butchered and posted them online. But its main job is monitoring. On a recent visit to the city\u2019s Qingping and Huadiwan markets, Wen Zhenyu identified <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arkive.org\/big-headed-turtle\/platysternon-megacephalum\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">big-headed turtles<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arkive.org\/pig-nosed-turtle\/carettochelys-insculpta\/image-G35847.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pig-nosed turtles<\/a>, Chinese three-striped box turtle and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arkive.org\/elongated-tortoise\/indotestudo-elongata\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">elongated tortoises<\/a> among the many species that are meant to be protected by international treaty.<\/p>\n<p>While China is not the only culprit in the consumption of wild animals, it is the biggest.\u00a0 And its impact is being felt across the region. In February, \u00adVietnamese authorities seized a record haul of <a href=\"https:\/\/ictsd.net\/i\/news\/biores\/40090\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00adillegally harvested wildlife products<\/a>, including two tons of <a href=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/nature\/10947-china-s-conservation-image-tarnished-by-tiger-bone-decision\/\">tiger bones<\/a>, bear paws and gall bladders. \u00adReports the same month from Laos revealed the ongoing <a href=\"https:\/\/e360.yale.edu\/content\/feature.msp?id=2126\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">poaching of tiger<\/a>. The biggest market for these products is China, where a tiger\u2019s bones and penis can fetch US$70,000.<\/p>\n<p>The authorities launch occasional raids on restaurants and dealers.\u00a0 In April, Guangzhou wildlife protection officials intercepted a cargo of smuggled <a href=\"https:\/\/blx1.bto.org\/birdfacts\/results\/bob3960.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">golden pheasant<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.badgers.org.uk\/badgerpages\/hog-badger-01.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sand badger<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/nature\/wildfacts\/factfiles\/37.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">leopard cat<\/a> and other animals.<\/p>\n<p>The <i>Guardian<\/i> found two food outlets in the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.gdut.edu.cn\/%7Edraw\/ICGG2004\/GUANGZHOU\/attr_14.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Conghua<\/a> hot spring resort outside Guangzhou openly breaking the law by serving pangolin and other protected animals. One restaurant charges 1,000 yuan (about US$150) per kilogramme of pangolin meat. \u201cYou need to pay in advance and then we will find one for you,\u201d said an employee. \u201cWe can cook it in a hotpot or braise it in soy sauce.\u201d Nearby, another restaurant illegally offers <a href=\"https:\/\/biology.bangor.ac.uk\/%7Ebss166\/Taxa\/Naja_atra.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cobra<\/a>.\u00a0\u201cIt is 100 yuan per half-kilo,\u201d said a waiter. \u201cWe get it from the wild.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Conservationists believe police alone cannot solve the problem. \u201cWe need to build consumer awareness so people move away from unsustainable consumption towards a feeling of stewardship,\u201d said James Compton, the Asia-Pacific coordinator of Traffic.<\/p>\n<p>Activists from another group, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacificenvironment.org\/article.php?id=1705\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Green Eyes<\/a>, recently scored a major victory by protesting outside a Guangzhou restaurant where a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nurse_shark\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">nurse shark<\/a> was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifeofguangzhou.com\/node_10\/node_37\/node_85\/2009\/03\/19\/123743935461978.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">held in a small tank<\/a> in which it could barely move. With banners reading \u201cNo consuming, no killing\u201d in English and Chinese, the campaigners received widespread coverage from local news channels. They eventually <a href=\"https:\/\/english.peopledaily.com.cn\/90001\/90782\/90873\/6636459.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">secured the release<\/a> of the shark.<\/p>\n<p>Zheng Yuanying, of Green Eyes, said the focus was not on the owners but on the consumers. \u201cWe avoid conflict. We just try to make suggestions. But some people think we care about animals too much.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For many species, it may be too late. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcs.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wildlife Conservation Society<\/a> reports a sharp decline in the diversity of freshwater turtles, snakes and frogs in the wild, though many species, including crocodiles, are being bred successfully in captivity.<\/p>\n<p>At Qingping market, a veteran snake seller says the market sells fewer species than before because many animals are extinct and the authorities are conducting stricter checks. But he admits to selling some protected species under the table. \u201cEven if people know an animal is endangered, they will eat it if they have a disease that cannot be cured with other types of medicine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One notorious market in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nansha_District\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nansha<\/a> has been closed, but conservationists fear the wild animal business is simply being pushed underground.<\/p>\n<p>At 4am in a dark suburb of Taiping, about an hour\u2019s drive from downtown Guangzhou, the <i>Guardian<\/i> found exotic-animal traders covertly plying their wares out of sight of the authorities and conservationists. The three long rows of sheds resembled a cramped and dirty zoo filled with wire cages: long and tall for the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Heron\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">herons<\/a>, flat and low for the <a href=\"https:\/\/cats.about.com\/cs\/basichealth\/a\/civetcat_2.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">civet cats<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ostrich\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ostriches<\/a> have room to move their necks, but not their bodies. There are similar markets throughout southern China.<\/p>\n<p>The activists say\u00a0the key is changing attitudes. \u201cWe try to educate people that turtles are not only pets and not only food; they are also a friend of \u00adhumans,\u201d Wen Zhenyu says.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.guardian.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright Guardian News and Media Limited, 2009<\/p>\n<p>Homepage photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/vlkr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">VLKR<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As some rare animal species approach extinction, conservation groups in southern China are working to change the region\u2019s traditional appetite for exotic fauna. 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