China’s lawmakers called on to end commercial exploitation of threatened wild animal species
The Environmental Investigation Agency and 26 other NGOs urge lawmakers in China to act to reduce demand for wild animal species threatened with extinction
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While you’ve been in lockdown, so have wildlife criminals – and many of them have been ‘working from home’
EIA intelligence indicates that illegal wildlife trade is continuing despite the pandemic
Confirmed: China’s revised wildlife law is currently a grave missed opportunity for threatened wildlife
Despite intense international scrutiny since the emergence of the coronavirus pandemic, the Chinese Government’s revision of its key legislation on conservation and trade in wild animals looks set to be a major disappointment and failure of nerve
It looks as if China won’t be banning commercial trade in pangolins, tigers, leopards and bears
China's Wildlife Protection Law allows for commercial trade in parts and products of big cats, pangolins, elephants, bears and other threatened wild animal species – and early indications suggest that situation is unlikely to change
Chinese Government still promoting coronavirus treatment containing bear bile
Authorities in China are still promoting the use of a COVID-19 treatment containing bile extracted from the gall bladders of caged bears
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Despite the headlines, China’s Government still promotes pangolin scales in traditional medicines
China secured huge international media coverage when its Government-controlled State media reported pangolin scales had been removed as a raw ingredient in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) – but in reality they can still be legally traded and used.