The legal market in pangolin ‘medicines’ is a key driver of the persistent demand and it is vital that the Chinese Government bans the use of pangolin scales as well as the products of other threatened 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
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
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 likely to be a major disappointment and failure of nerve
EIA has prepared analysis of the draft revision of China's Wildlife Protection Law, published for public comment in October 2020, along with recommendations for further revisions urgently needed to secure positive changes for threatened wildlife, including tigers, leopards, pangolins, elephants, rhinos 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