Please sign our petition - Stop Covid19 - Call for a Permanent Ban on Commercial Wildlife Breeding, Markets and Trade
We applaud the Chinese Government’s swift response to the Coronavirus outbreak, with healthcare facilities provided and precautionary measures put into place to protect humans and care for the population. At this crucial time, the Government has also announced an emergency review of the existing wildlife legislation.
The law was created in 1989 and amended recently, in 2018. Therefore, the
announcement to review again, now, is an unprecedented move by the National
People’s Congress (NPC). ACTAsia is taking this opportunity to gather
support for change and help steer it, to ensure that the results positively
impact as many animals as possible.
ACTAsia is using this opportunity to educate the public in China on what the
impact of the wildlife trade is and what the repercussions of its
consumption have been. We are collaborating with legislative professionals
and the China Biodiversity Conservation & Green Development Foundation, and
mobilising people within China, to ensure that the process and outcomes of
this upcoming emergency amendment are more than just a permanent ban on the
wildlife markets. We believe that this would only partially solve the
problems at hand, as millions of wild animals are still kept in captive
breeding farms for commercial purposes and this would pose further risks to
human health, damage to the environment and poor animal welfare.
ACTAsia is in it for the long haul and for the maximum impact to benefit as
many animals as possible. There will be many twists and turns as this issue
is discussed but we will ensure your voice is represented within the forums
and that animals, humans and the environment are considered at every step.
Please sign our petition -
Stop Covid19 - Call for a Permanent Ban on Commercial Wildlife
Breeding, Markets and Trade
Thank you for everything you do for animals!
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